sentence improvement Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ssc cgl tier 1 2023

Answer: (d)

'Laid down' means 'stated authoritatively'. 'Laid up' is 'stored up' or 'confined to bed'. 'Lead someone up something' is to guide someone upward along some route. 'Lead someone down' is to help someone down (stairs, a path, etc.).

Answer: (a)

When the auxiliary 'need' is conjugated without 'do', it has no '-s' and '-ed' forms. It is used with an infinitive without 'to' only in negative (such as here) and interrogative sentences and in sentences that contain semi-negative words like 'hardly'.

Answer: (a)

The subject-auxiliary inversion is necessary; so (a) cannot be the answer; (c) cannot be correct with 'than' later on in the sentence; (d) is grammatically incorrect.

Answer: (b)

The best option is (c) in terms of usage.

Answer: (d)

'Need' here is a noun and it means 'necessity arising from existing circumstances'.