Spotting Errors

Directions: Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s). (A) Indian companies have two targets abroad: businesses that enable them to grow beyond India and become globally competitive and those that add value on terms of markets, brands, technology or raw materials. (B) Investment periods could get shorter as funds look to flip investments rather than buildup companies, and that could risk tarnishing the halo currently around private equity. (C) Manish Kajriwal, who runs India Temasek Holdings Advisors, says his firm has made, much money buying undervalued stocks from the private markets as it has from some of its large private - equity bets in India. (D) That trend will likely be boosted by a Standard & Poor's decision in late January to restore India to full investment - grade status after a 15 - year lapse, making it easier for the Indian companies to raise funds abroad.

Directions: Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).

(A) Work is such a cozy place that its sometimes difficult for Google employees to leave the office, which is precisely how the company justifies the expenses, none of which it breaks out of its administrative costs. (B) To this day, they jam employees through shared offices and cubicles and would do so even if Google had more space - because3 Page, a student of “office flow” likes the idea of recreating that university environment in which he and Brin wrote the first Google search engine. (C) In its earliest days Google was more or less a post doctoral extension of Stanford computer science department from which Page, Brin, and a goodly number of their pals sprang. (D) Much has been made, for example, of the fact that Google now employed Vint Cerf, the “father” of the internet, and Lary Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox and now runs Google's fledgling philanthropic arm.

Directions: Select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence(s).

(A) Drive down the empty back roads that lead to Gerald Tumbleson's Martin county, Minn., farmhouse, and you would never know you are riding through one of America's newest boomtown. (B) In Martin County and all across the Cornbelt, ethanol plants are bidding up corn prices and persuading farmers like Tumbleson to bypass traditional grain markets and sell corn to them year round instead. (C) The fact that many renewable energy technologies are still years from being commercially successful, combined with what some say is a lack of places to turn to for money, leaves many of these companies especially vulnerable. (D) Still, talk to farmers in southern Minnesota about the wealth being created here, and you'll discover there's almost as much anxiety as euphoria.