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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. Ifa sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

His assistance (1)/ wasn’t happy (2)/ with his job. (3)/ No error (4)

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 1

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

We said to her, "Don’t give up. You are almost there."

A) We told her not to give up and that she is almost here. B) We encouraged her not to have given up and that she would almost be there.
C) We encouraged her not to give up and that she was almost there. D) We told her not to have had given up and that she was almost here.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) We encouraged her not to give up and that she was almost there.

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

Photography is the _____________ we can get to stopping time. The camera is our pause button, the cork we use to stop time from running out. And the photo album is the most potent time machine ever ____________, one that transports you to a curated past where everything exists ________ you choose to remember it,one that lets you revisit ________ just people and places and ages, but the hidden crannies of ________ own memory and the strange landscape of emotions that lies beyond.

 

everything exists ________ you choose to

A) so B) to
C) at D) as
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) at

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


The second strategy proposed __________________ the committee was institutional reform of police processes, including investigation of crimes, professionalization and ________________ of court systems with induction of technology _____________ limiting appeal procedures to the _________________ required. It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger and responsible role to victims of crime in the whole proceedings.


It is here the committee ___________________ to bring in a bigger

 

A) bought B) brought
C) caught D) sought
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) sought

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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.


___________ being an intangible idea, the nation is quite real because it is a shared idea. _______________ of nationhood are important for this sharing to be reliably reproduced, which is why we have familiar _____________ to memory like maps, flags, or the figure of Mother India. National symbols are extremely powerful ________________ they connect to compressed reservoirs of intense _________________.


they connect to compressed reservoirs of intense _________________.

 

A) compassion B) empathy
C) emotion D) elation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) emotion

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In the following question, a sentence / a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

 

I was first to reach the college today.

A) I did reach first B) I was the first to reach
C) I firstly reached D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) I was the first to reach

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

I said to my father, "I want to build a raft which can hold four people ."

 

A) I told my father that I am wanting to build a raft which could hold four people. B) I told my father that that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.
C) I told my father that that I am wanting to build a raft which could hold four people. D) I told my father that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) I told my father that I wanted to build a raft which could hold four people.

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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


We are ____ in a time of great and _____changes. The most obvious _____of the modern world is the _____development of science and technology. This has given man a deeper _____of nature.


time of great and _____changes

A) convenient B) continuing
C) coveted D) consequent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) continuing

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