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'The colour of my pen' is the most natural and grammatically correct way to express possession using a prepositional phrase. Option A uses an awkward possessive construction that's not standard English. Options C and D are ungrammatical or unclear.

'Earnings' is a special noun that is always plural when referring to income or wages, despite ending in -s. It therefore requires the plural verb 'are.' The singular 'earning' as a noun would be uncountable, but 'earnings' is the standard form for income.

When creating a compound adjective with a number and a noun to modify another noun, the noun is kept singular. 'Three-man' is the correct compound adjective form. 'Three-men' would be incorrect because the noun in a compound adjective remains singular even when referring to multiple people.

When a possessive noun is followed by an appositive, a word that renames or explains that noun, the apostrophe +s is added to the appositive, not to the noun. So, uncle, the engineer's office is correct.

'Information' is an uncountable noun in English and never takes a plural form - 'informations' is incorrect. As an uncountable noun, it requires a singular verb 'is.' The sentence structure 'No more... available' is a truncated construction common in English.

The correct answer is 'The son of my father's friend' because it uses proper possessive forms with apostrophes. Option A is grammatically correct but less commonly used in standard English. Options C and D are missing necessary apostrophes to show possession.

The correct answer is 'is' because 'news' is an uncountable noun that always takes a singular verb, even though it ends with an 's'. This is a common exception in English grammar that confuses many learners.

The correct answer is 'thousand' because when a specific number precedes it, the word remains singular. 'Thousands' would only be used in vague expressions like 'thousands of rupees'. Options C and D are simply misspelled.

The comparative ‘prefer’ takes ‘to’ as preposition.

‘At’ signifies a location and ‘in’ signifies a region.

‘Some’ is used in positive sense, ‘many’ is a number and ‘not little’ will be double negative.

The correct option is (2).

When used as a quantifier before a noun with a specific number, 'dozen' remains singular. Similar to 'hundred' or 'thousand,' we say 'two dozen pencils' not 'two dozens of pencils.' The 's' is only added when referring to an indefinite number of dozens.

When referring to an indefinite large quantity without a specific number, 'dozens' takes the plural form. We say 'dozens of people' for an unspecified large number, but 'two dozen people' for a specific quantity.

Collective nouns like 'jury' can take either singular or plural verb agreement depending on context. When referring to the jury as a single unit acting together, singular is correct. When individual members act separately, plural is appropriate. Here, the jury as a whole is confused.