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1. Question

Directions: In each question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

We had to decline several orders in case that the production was held up due to labour strike.

2. Question

Choose the incorrectly spelt word out of the given alternatives.

Select wrongly spelt word

3. Question

Out of given alternatives select the option which best expresses the meaning of given idiom/ phrase.

At daggers drawn

4. Question

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

A person, animal or plant much below the usual height

5. Question

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

A person, animal or plant much below the usual height

6. Question

Directions: In each question, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

If you park your car here, the traffic police has <strong>fined you.</strong>

7. Question

Fill in the blanks/blank with suitable pair of words/word from the options given below to make a meaningful sentence.

His company has the of producing the best cricket balls in the country.

8. Question

Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

SCARCE

9. Question

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Seoul's city government is asking people for help to correct poorly translated street signs - with prizes on offer for (9) who spot the most errors. It's running (10) two-week campaign calling on Koreans and foreigners (11) to keep their eyes peeled for (12)in English, Japanese and Chinese text, the Korea Times reports. There's a (13) focus on public transport signs, maps and information signs at historic sites, as part of a drive to improve the experience of foreign tourists in the South Korean capital.

10. Question

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Seoul's city government is asking people for help to correct poorly translated street signs - with prizes on offer for (9) who spot the most errors. It's running (10) two-week campaign calling on Koreans and foreigners (11) to keep their eyes peeled for (12)in English, Japanese and Chinese text, the Korea Times reports. There's a (13) focus on public transport signs, maps and information signs at historic sites, as part of a drive to improve the experience of foreign tourists in the South Korean capital.

11. Question

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Seoul's city government is asking people for help to correct poorly translated street signs - with prizes on offer for (9) who spot the most errors. It's running (10) two-week campaign calling on Koreans and foreigners (11) to keep their eyes peeled for (12)in English, Japanese and Chinese text, the Korea Times reports. There's a (13) focus on public transport signs, maps and information signs at historic sites, as part of a drive to improve the experience of foreign tourists in the South Korean capital.

12. Question

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Seoul's city government is asking people for help to correct poorly translated street signs - with prizes on offer for (9) who spot the most errors. It's running (10) two-week campaign calling on Koreans and foreigners (11) to keep their eyes peeled for (12)in English, Japanese and Chinese text, the Korea Times reports. There's a (13) focus on public transport signs, maps and information signs at historic sites, as part of a drive to improve the experience of foreign tourists in the South Korean capital.

13. Question

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

Seoul's city government is asking people for help to correct poorly translated street signs - with prizes on offer for (9) who spot the most errors. It's running (10) two-week campaign calling on Koreans and foreigners (11) to keep their eyes peeled for (12)in English, Japanese and Chinese text, the Korea Times reports. There's a (13) focus on public transport signs, maps and information signs at historic sites, as part of a drive to improve the experience of foreign tourists in the South Korean capital.

14. Question

Out of the given alternatives select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of given word.

CHRONIC

15. Question

Fill in the blanks/blank with suitable pair of words/word from the options given below to make a meaningful sentence.

Around sixty bands in colourful took part in the

16. Question

Rearrange the following six sentences/ group of sentences (A), (B), (C) and (d) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.

A. An environmental group performed a necropsy on the animal and found about 40 kilograms of plastic, including grocery bags and rice sacks.<br> B. A 4.7-metre long whale died on Saturday in Phillipines where it was stranded a day earlier. <br> C. "It's very disgusting and heartbreaking," he said. "We've done necropsies on 61 dolphins and whales in the last 10 years and this is one of the biggest amounts of plastic we've seen." <br> D. "The animal died from starvation and was unable to eat because of the trash filling its stomach," said Darrell Blatchley, Director of D' Bone Collector Museum Inc.

17. Question

Choose the incorrectly spelt word out of the given alternatives.

Select wrongly spelt word

18. Question

Out of the given alternatives select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

EXPANSION

19. Question

Out of given alternatives, choose the word which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

A student who idly or without excuse absents himself/hersef from school

20. Question

A sentence has been given in Active Voice. Out of the five/four alternatives suggested select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive Voice.

Every passing vehicle was being thoroughly checked by the guards.

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