improving the sentences Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ibps po prelims

Answer: (a)

'Set in' means 'to begin'. 'Set out' is 'to start or go forth'; 'set up' is 'to begin a company, etc.', (one sets up something); 'set off' is 'to start off'.

Answer: (d)

'Level' something 'against' someone means to accuse or place a charge against someone.

Answer: (d)

Option (c) is also grammatically correct but there is a slight difference. 'She could not help laughing' means that laughing came naturally to her as a reaction or as her response.

But 'she could not help but laugh' means she could only respond by laughing.

Answer: (b)

Option (b) is right because 'what' here suggests a singular noun. (The thing that/which 'is' needed are not large houses but small cottages.)

Answer: (a)

When they felt humiliated they realised that they had already been cheated (before the time of humiliation or the realisation). The past perfect continuous tense is used to express an action in the past that continued for some time before another action took place.