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English Grammar and Usage

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English grammar and usage form a critical component of language sections in competitive exams. This hub provides practice with fill in the blanks, prepositions, and appropriate word selection. Strong grammar skills are necessary to score well in verbal ability tests.

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English Grammar and Usage Questions

Multiple choice

(A)Oil has and (B)still is (C)in great demand. (D)No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

When two auxiliary verbs are used with a single principal verb, both must be correctly formed. 'Has' requires 'been' (past participle) to form the perfect tense, while 'is' works with 'in great demand.'

Multiple choice

Launched in 1997, the site increased its traffic more than double since then, and its revenue.

  1. increased its traffic more than double since then,

  2. has since increased its traffic more than double,

  3. has since more than doubled its traffic

  4. since then more than doubled its traffic

  5. more than doubled its traffic since then
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Only option (3) uses present perfect tense to indicate that a process that started in 1997 and has some effects continuing till now. Hence (3)

Multiple choice

From 1991 on, standard of living in India has risen, but inflation and crime too.

  1. but inflation and crime too

  2. and also inflation and crime

  3. but so have inflation and crime

  4. and so also inflation and crime

  5. but so did inflation and crime
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The non-underlined part of the sentence uses present perfect tense which should also be used in the correct option to maintain parallelism. Hence (3)

Multiple choice

Foreign direct investors, because of their increasing confidence in their ability for making sound investments in India, have been led to move from passive involvement in industrial joint ventures to active involvement in their own increasingly ambitious enterprises.

  1. Foreign direct investors, because of their increasing confidence in their ability for making sound investments in India, have been led

  2. Foreign direct investors, increasing confident about their ability for making sound investments in India, has led them

  3. Increasing confidence in their ability to make sound investments in India has led foreign direct investors

  4. Increasing confidence in their ability for making sound investments in India have led foreign direct investors

  5. Increasing confident about their abilities for making sound investments in India, foreign direct investors have been led
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Only option (3) uses the correct preposition ‘ability to .... do something’. Hence (3)