In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.
Q.1) She got two quick promotions in order that she has good communication skills.
- (a) two quick promotions
- (b) she has good communication skills
- (c) in order that
- (d) She got
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Q.2) Cost an arm and a leg
- (a) Easy to obtain
- (b) Rarely available
- (c) Nothing to lose
- (d) Very expensive
Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.
Q.3) The State Government argued that it could not ____ the increase in the teacher's salaries as awarded by the court.
- (a) stand
- (b) spare
- (c) afford
- (d) get
Directions (4 - 8) : In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.
At Italian mayor has been cleaning the streets along with his councillors after their town (4) with no manual workers, it's reported. In fact, (5) was sweeping the piazza in front of the (6) church in preparation for market day, (7) the deputy mayor's father and a town councillor armed with a high-pressure hose. The town Zerfaliu's last (8) retired six months ago and nobody has been hired since then. "We can't do anything - we are blocked by bureaucracy," the mayor says.
Q.4) Choose the correct option for (4)
- (a) was left
- (b) was leaving
- (c) has left
- (d) leaves
Q.5) Choose the correct option for (5)
- (a) he
- (b) it
- (c) they
- (d) she
Q.6) Choose the correct option for (6)
- (a) near
- (b) local
- (c) neighbour
- (d) next
Q.7) Choose the correct option for (7)
- (a) also
- (b) alongside
- (c) along
- (d) as well
Q.8) Choose the correct option for (8)
- (a) councillor
- (b) member
- (c) worker
- (d) mayor
Q.9) Select the wrongly spelt word.
- (a) Examplify
- (b) Exhale
- (c) Exempt
- (d) Example
Q.10) Select the wrongly spelt word.
- (a) Comparable
- (b) Comparison
- (c) Compitition
- (d) Communication
Do not park your car in front of my house.
- (a) Your car need not be parked in front of my house.
- (b) Your car should not be parked in front of my house.
- (c) Your car could not be parked in front of my house.
- (d) My house should not be parked in front of your car.
Garrulous
- (a) Guttural
- (b) Throaty
- (c) Concise
- (d) Talkative
Escalate
- (a) Heighten
- (b) Enlarge
- (c) Raise
- (d) Reduce
Tender
- (a) Soft
- (b) Warm
- (c) Gentle
- (d) Rough
The main gate of the building was being guarded by gun totting guards.
- (a) Gun-totting guards guarded the main gate of the building.
- (b) The main gate of the building were guarding gun-totting guards.
- (c) Gun-totting guards were guarding the main gate of the building.
- (d) Gun-totting guards have been guarding the main gate of the building.
(A) That sort of pollution, which is also widespread in other South East Asian nations, regularly kills wildlife like whales and turtles that ingest the waste.
(B) Environmental groups have tagged the Philippines as one of the world's biggest ocean polluters due to its reliance on single-use plastic.
(C) In Thailand also, a whale died last year after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags.
(D) In the latest case, a whale with 40 kilos of plastic trash in its stomach died on Saturday in southern Philippines where it was stranded a day earlier.
- (a) BCAD
- (b) BADC
- (c)ABCD
- (d) DABC
Get out of hand
- (a) Get out of control
- (b) To complete a task
- (c) Give up something
- (d) Get upset
I look for a better job for the last two months, but nothing is in sight.
- (a) have been looking for a better job
- (b) have looked for a better job
- (c) No improvement
- (d) looked for a better job
Tilt
- (a) Slant
- (b) Straighten
- (c) Cross
- (d) Support
(A) The elephant tusks were tracked from the Democratic Republic of Congo for two months.
(B) Customs officials in Thailand say it's the biggest seizure in the country's history.
(C) Four tonnes of ivory, with a market value of $6 million - it was an impressive haul.
(D) Officials say they were being transported to Laos, form where they believed the ivory would be sold to customers across Asia.
- (a) CBAD
- (b) ACDB
- (c) ABCD
- (d) CABD
A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
- (a) Vagrant
- (b) Itinerant
- (c) Migrant
- (d) Truant
A person, animal or plant belonging originally to a place.
- (a) Alien
- (b) Native
- (c) Resident
- (d) Occupant
If you join this job now, it proves to be good in the long run.
- (a) it has proved to be good
- (b) it will prove to be good
- (c) it proves good
- (d) No Improvement
Scientists at Cambridge University are _______ how plants can give us sustainable energy.
- (a) looking
- (b) investigating
- (c) scrutinizing
- (d) inspecting
Due to the Cyclone Idai vast areas of land have been flooded, roads destroyed and communications dusrupting in Zimbabwe and Mosambique.
- (a) vast areas of land have been flooded
- (b) and communication disrupting
- (c) Due to the Cyclone Idai
- (d) roads destroyed