English Grammar and Usage

Which of these fits gap (i)?

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered gaps.

In old Greece, there was a wise man called Diogenes who lived in Athens. He was eccentric and bad tempered and ____(i)____ in a tub. One day he came to the market place with a lighted lantern in his hand, although it was broad day light. He went about peering at everyone he met, with his lantern. Soon ___(ii)___ to know what he was doing. At last he blew out his lantern and ____(iii)_____ to his tub. But the people who still followed him kept asking him what he had been looking for. At last he stopped and said, “I was looking for an honest man, but ____(iv)_____."

Which of these fits gap (iv)?

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered gaps.

In old Greece, there was a wise man called Diogenes who lived in Athens. He was eccentric and bad tempered and ____(i)____ in a tub. One day he came to the market place with a lighted lantern in his hand, although it was broad day light. He went about peering at everyone he met, with his lantern. Soon ___(ii)___ to know what he was doing. At last he blew out his lantern and ____(iii)_____ to his tub. But the people who still followed him kept asking him what he had been looking for. At last he stopped and said, “I was looking for an honest man, but ____(iv)_____."

Which of these fits gap (ii)?

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered gaps.

Gandhiji’s views were too spiritual to be strictly adopted in life. However, his influence and importance were ___(i)___. It was he who got us freedom without bloodshed and ___(ii)____ other nations to demand their freedom. He championed against many ___(iii)___. He loved India but more importantly he loved God and man. His name has become a ___(iv)____. There has hardly been any revolutionary who was so powerfully good.

Which of these fits gap (ii)?

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered gaps.

In old Greece, there was a wise man called Diogenes who lived in Athens. He was eccentric and bad tempered and ____(i)____ in a tub. One day he came to the market place with a lighted lantern in his hand, although it was broad day light. He went about peering at everyone he met, with his lantern. Soon ___(ii)___ to know what he was doing. At last he blew out his lantern and ____(iii)_____ to his tub. But the people who still followed him kept asking him what he had been looking for. At last he stopped and said, “I was looking for an honest man, but ____(iv)_____."

Which of these fits gap (iii)?

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered gaps.

In old Greece, there was a wise man called Diogenes who lived in Athens. He was eccentric and bad tempered and ____(i)____ in a tub. One day he came to the market place with a lighted lantern in his hand, although it was broad day light. He went about peering at everyone he met, with his lantern. Soon ___(ii)___ to know what he was doing. At last he blew out his lantern and ____(iii)_____ to his tub. But the people who still followed him kept asking him what he had been looking for. At last he stopped and said, “I was looking for an honest man, but ____(iv)_____."

In context, which of the following revisions is necessary in sentence 5 (reproduced below)?

The friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is one of the most celebrated in,American literature, built on imaginative adventures, shared superstitions, and loyalty that had risen above social convention.

PASSAGE-II

Direction for questions 7 to 12: The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten. Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask you to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(1) Mark Twain’s publication is 1876 of his popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer followed the publication of his previous novel. (2)  The Gilded Age reversed a brief downturn in his success. (3) Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer while he and his family were living in Hartford, Connecticut, and Twain was enjoying his fame. (4) The escapades of a young boy and his friends in St. Petersburg as told in the novel, Missouri, a village near the Mississippi River, recalls Twain’s own childhood in a small Missouri town. (5) The friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is one of the most celebrated in,American literature, built on imaginative adventures, shared superstitions, and loyalty that had risen above social convention. (6) Twain’s American reading audience loved this novel and its young hero, and the novel remains one of the most popular and famous work of American literature.

(7) Scenes such as Tom Sawyer tricking his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly’s fence for him, Injun Joe leaping through the window of courthouse after Tom names him as Dr.  Robinson’s murderer, and Tom and Becky lost in the cave have become so familiar to American readers that one almost doesn’t have to read the book to know about them.  (8) But the pleasure of reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has kept readers coming back to the novel for over a century. (9) The novel and its characters have achieved folk hero status in the American popular imagination.

 (10) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is fun to read, there is another reason for the novel’s contemporary popularity:  It introduces the character of Huckleberry Finn, who, with the publication of Twain’s 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has become one of the greatest characters in American literature.

In context, what should be done with sentence 9?

PASSAGE-II

Direction for questions 7 to 12: The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten. Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask you to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

(1) Mark Twain’s publication is 1876 of his popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer followed the publication of his previous novel. (2)  The Gilded Age reversed a brief downturn in his success. (3) Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer while he and his family were living in Hartford, Connecticut, and Twain was enjoying his fame. (4) The escapades of a young boy and his friends in St. Petersburg as told in the novel, Missouri, a village near the Mississippi River, recalls Twain’s own childhood in a small Missouri town. (5) The friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn is one of the most celebrated in,American literature, built on imaginative adventures, shared superstitions, and loyalty that had risen above social convention. (6) Twain’s American reading audience loved this novel and its young hero, and the novel remains one of the most popular and famous work of American literature.

(7) Scenes such as Tom Sawyer tricking his friends into whitewashing Aunt Polly’s fence for him, Injun Joe leaping through the window of courthouse after Tom names him as Dr.  Robinson’s murderer, and Tom and Becky lost in the cave have become so familiar to American readers that one almost doesn’t have to read the book to know about them.  (8) But the pleasure of reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has kept readers coming back to the novel for over a century. (9) The novel and its characters have achieved folk hero status in the American popular imagination.

 (10) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is fun to read, there is another reason for the novel’s contemporary popularity:  It introduces the character of Huckleberry Finn, who, with the publication of Twain’s 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has become one of the greatest characters in American literature.

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

Dinosaurs (A) are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, (B) but recent evidence based on their eating habits, posture, and skeletal structure (C) suggested some (D) may have been warm-blooded. (E) No error