Directions (1 – 10): Which of the phrases a), b), c) and d)
given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically
meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and 'No correction
is required', mark e) as answer.
1. My friend and I in a nearby street whose name I have forgotten.
a) the name of which
b) which name
c) the name which
d) of which name
e) No correction required
2. Miss Patel teaches very well isn’t she?
a) isn’t it?
b) wasn’t she?
c) didn’t she?
d) Doesn’t she?
e) No correction required
3. He does not smoke, nor he drinks.
a) nor he does drink
b) neither he does drink
c) nor does he drink
d) he does not drink
e) No correction required
4. He has fallen out with the girl he wanted to
marry.
a) fallen off
b) fallen for
c) fallen in love
d) fallen in
e) no correction required
5. He is quite well now, except a slight cold.
a) except with a slight cold
b) Excepting a slight cold
c) Excepting for a slight cold
d) Except for a slight cold
e) No correction required
6. When the bomb went off, it broke all of ours windows.
a) all windows of ours
b) all windows of us
c) all our windows
d) our all windows
e) no correction required
7. He has for good left India.
a) He has left for good India.
b) He has left good for India.
c) He has left India for good.
d) Good he has left India.
e) No correction required.
8. Visiting the village is like being transported into some other century.
a) was like be transported
b) is alike to transported
c) is likely to be transported
d) is to likes transport
e) no correction required
9. Whichever reasons, there is no denying the
changing attitudes to traditions as well as livelihoods.
a) whichever the reasoning
b) whatever the reasons
c) whatever reasoning
d) whichever reasoned
e) no correction required
10. The carpenter is the most skilled of all the other
carpenters in our own workshop.
a) Other carpenters
b) Of all other carpenters
c) Carpenter
d) Of all carpenters
e) No correction required
Answers:
1)c 2)d
3)e 4)c 5)a
6)c 7)c 8)e
9)b 10)e
