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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

Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

  1. were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal

  2. was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal

  3. were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing

  4. was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healing

  5. were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of subject verb agreement. Here, the subject is singular, so the auxiliary needs to be singular. Now the fact has been properly expressed in option 2, not in option 4.

Multiple choice

As a result of the continuing decline in the birth rate, less people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than did in the 1960's and 1970's, a twenty year period during which people born after the war swelled the ranks of workers.

  1. less people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than

  2. less people will be entering the labor force in the 1980's as

  3. fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980's as

  4. fewer people will be entering the labor force in the 1980's as

  5. fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than
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E Correct answer
Explanation

For countable nouns (in positive manner) we use 'fewer'. Preposition 'than' is the correct usage as this sentence is the case of comparison.

Multiple choice

As contrasted with the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.

  1. As contrasted with the honeybee

  2. In contrast to the honeybee's

  3. Unlike the sting of the honeybee

  4. Unlike that of the honeybee

  5. Unlike the honeybee
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E Correct answer
Explanation

Here are given two subjects i.e. the honeybee and the yellow jacket. The sentence implies that both of them very. So option 5 is the correct expression for the same.