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Directions:
Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c), (d) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) ie ‘No correction required’ as the answer.
Question : 7
Our team lost the football match, although the boys put in a very good performance.
a) put off
b) put on
c) put up
d) No improvement
Answer »Answer: (b)
‘Put in’ has different meanings in different contexts. As for example,
1. To make a formal offer or declaration, eg put in a plea of guilty.
2. To fix equipment or furniture into position so that it can be used. eg, we are having a new shower put in.
3. To interrupt another speaker in order to say something eg, Could I put in a word?
4. To officially make a claim, request etc. eg the company has put in a claim for damages.
Put on = to dress yourself in something. eg Hurry up! Put your shirt on. = to give Somebody the telephone so that they can talk to the person at the other end. eg Hi, Dad can you put shashi on? = to apply something to your skin, etc.
Put up = to show a particular level of skill, determination
Put off = to cancel/ to make somebody dislike somebody/something; to disturb somebody.
Thus, it is clear that the bold part should be replaced with option (b).
Question : 8
Hardly nothing was offered to the victims of the earthquake.
a) Hardly something
b) Hardly anything
c) Hardly little
d) No improvement
Answer »Answer: (b)
The adverb of frequency, “hardly” has a negative meaning. Nothing also implies a negative meaning. Two negatives make a the sentence positive.
Therefore the adverbs of frequency having a negative meaning should be followed by anyone, any, anything etc.
Question : 9
Anyone with a little interest in sports is bound to familiar with Sachin Tendulkar’s name.
a) binding to be familiar
b) binding to familiar
c) bound to be familiar
d) bound to have familiar
e) No correction required
Answer »Answer: (c)
On applying the principle of least deviation, the least deviated options are more likely to be a correct option. Here, among the given options, (b) and (d) are least deviated hence either of the two can be a correct option, at the same time, remaining two options (a) and (c), cannot be the correct options.
Now, let us consider options (b) and (d). Option (d) cannot be a correct option because it has ‘to have familiar’. ‘Have’ means to ‘possess something’.
Familiarity is not something in the form of an object that a man can possess. Hence rule out (d). Now, we are left with (b) only, which is absolutely correct.
Question : 10
The battle to rage for some time.
a) is raging
b) has been raged
c) had been raging
d) No improvement
Answer »Answer: (c)
“For” and “Since” are used with perfect or perfect continuous tenses.
The correct tense to be used in the given sentence is past perfect continuous tense. The correct form of the verb is “had + been + raging”
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