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ENGLISH USAGE MCQs
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A
Option A. Cancer cells invade not invest.
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C
option C .We are on intimate terms with someone not in intimate terms.
(A) The users must also accept the realities [A] / the reality [B] that enjoying world – class facilities comes with [A] / comes for [B] a price.
(B) Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani’s namesake corporation has entered in [A] / entered into [B] a joint venture with DLF to TAP India’s expanding luxury consumer market.
(C) It’s true that past promises are no guarantee against [A] / guarantee of [B] future performance.
(D) The affiliating system in India is a curse for [A] / curse on [B] higher education.
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D
In the first part of the sentence ‘the reality’ is suitable. In the next part of the sentence the verbal phrase ‘comes with a price’ means expensive. ‘Enter into’ is correct as it suggests joining or getting into a venture. Into indicates motion. If one thing generates another it is a guarantee of the other. ‘Curse on’ is acceptable. It is a curse on something.
Hence BABBB.
ANS:option D
(A) When the waiver is announced each one of the fifteen thousand farmers, who has [A] /have[B] land holdings upto 15 acres would [A] / will [B] heave a sigh of relief.
(B) Every man and every woman of the entire village know [A] / knows [B] that it is a political move to divide farmers.
(C) Neither the Prime Minister nor the congress President have [A] / has [B] heard the farmer’s pleas.
(D) Almost every-one of the infrastructure companies has [A] / have [B] discounted ambient factors like construction risks.
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B
‘Who has’ refers to the singular subject of each farmer and ‘will heave a sigh of relief' refers to each one of them. Hence AB is acceptable. Each,every, neither, either take singular verbs. Hence BBBA is correct. In the first sentence as ‘will’ is the present form it is suitable in the context. ABBBA.
ANS:option B
(B) On entering certain kinds of wild country, I have an instinctive feeling about[A] /of [B] home-coming
(C) What most clearly marks [A] / marks off [B] cognitivism from behaviorvism is the belief that there are hidden causes of behavior.
(D) The state government has expressed considerable concern for [A] / about [B] the rapid rise in the latest crime figures in the capital city.
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A
Since ‘pleasure’ is derived from something,option A is correct and ‘in the house keeper’s’
room is correct. In sentence 2 feeling ‘of’ home coming is correct. In sentence 3 marks
means ‘distinguishes’ hence option B is suitable. In sentence 4 ‘concern for’ is incorrect
for it is used for a person. For a situation ‘concern about’ is used. Hence ABBBB.
ANS:option A
(A) In the past few years the imaginative [A] / imaginary [B] distinctions between [A] / among [B] urban life and the natural world have crumbled.
(B) The decision of the election commission of India to hold Assembly elections in Karnataka before the expiry of the six-month [A] / six-months [B] term of the President’s rule ends a period of political uncertainty.
(C) Now Hamlet is primarily [A] / primary [B] a drama of revenge, one of the most dislikeable of all human passions.
(D) The winds blow unceasingly sapping your energy, blighting your hopes and producing energy, blighting your hopes and producing [A] / produce [B] a conviction that nothing is worth an effort.
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D
‘Imaginary’ describes something that is created by and exists only in the mind, that is not real whereas imaginative means new, original and clever. Hence, option ‘B’ imaginary’ is correct. In sentence 2 the compound word 'six-month' is used as an adjective and therefore it should be in the singular. In sentence 3 primarily means ‘mainly’ and primary means ‘most important’. Hence ‘A’ ‘primarily is correct. In sentence 4 to maintain parallelism in construction production [A] should be used. Hence BAAAA is the right choice.
ANS:option D
(A) If the Videocon group’s bid for Motorola Inc’s mobile-phone business, would go [A] / goes [B] through, it would [A] / it will [B] become the world’s third largest handset producer.
(B) If he had brought [A] / brought [B] the movie to Broadway, he would have put Lenny Kravitz in it
(C) If Mr. Putin’s Russia is accepted as an emerging democracy,it will be [A] / would be [B] difficult to justify the new containment policy.
(D) If he won a lottery, he would donate [A] / would have donated [B] the major part of it to a worthy cause.
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D
‘Would’ cannot be used in the conditional clause, hence goes is correct. If the ‘if clause’ has present tense (goes through) it should be followed by ‘will’. In sentence 2 the main clause has ‘would have’ therefore the ‘if clause’ must be in the past perfect tense (had brought).
In sentence 3 present tense (is) should be followed by ‘will be’. In 4 the conditional clause is in the simple past tense, hence it should be followed by ‘would have donated’. Hence BBAAB.
ANS: option D
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D
Little means ‘not much’ (negative) whereas ‘a little’ means to a small degree (positive). The Manager is in little mood (meaning no mood) to talk-
ANS:option D
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D
The original sentence begins with the modifier "Famed for his masterful use of irony," which requires a person as its subject. However, in the original sentence, "many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories" is the subject. Moreover, the phrase "due to the author slowly revealing" is awkward.
(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.
(B) The pronoun "he" must have a person as its antecedent, yet there is no person in the sentence. Remember that "he" cannot refer to "Guy de Maupassant" here, since the name is part of a possessive phrase: "Guy de Maupassant's short stories". The author himself is not grammatically present in the sentence.
(C) The opening modifier "famed for using irony in a masterful way" incorrectly modifies "short stories" instead of Guy de Maupassant himself. It also contains the awkward phrase "because of the author slowly revealing."
(D) CORRECT. This choice remedies the flawed modifier by rewriting the sentence to avoid it. This choice also replaces the awkward phrase "due to the author's revealing" with "evidenced in the slow revelation."
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D
The phrase ‘to lift something’ means to steal (as in shoplift). Hence ‘lift mangoes’ is wrong, it should be get or obtain. However we can ‘lift potatoes’ meaning to dig up from the ground.
ANS:option D