Directions (1- 5): Which of the phrase (1), (2), (3), (4) given below each sentences should replace the phrase printed in bold to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (5) is ‘No correction required’ as the answer.
1. The parents of greater than half these students have borrowed money to pay for their children’s education.
1) above half off
2) higher than half
3) at least halve
4) more than half of
5) No correction required
2. He was so tired that he could barely keeping his eyes open while driving.
1) can barely keep
2) could barely keep
3) can bare keep
4) could bear to keep
5) No correction required
3. Once you get your postgraduate degree in management get a job will be much easier.
1) getting a job will
2) to get a job
3) you will get a job
4) should get a job
5) No correction required
4. He listened to my objections patiently and then explained why he had taken such a decision in my absence.
1) that he had been
2) how he has
3) why he was
4) when having
5) No correction required
5. Many animals had been using for experimentation.
1) have been using
2) are being used
3) are using
4) have being used
5) No correction required
Directions (Q. 6-10) In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (1), (2), (3)), ,(4) and (5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningfully complete.
6. At the dawn of history India __________on her unending quest and trackless centuries are __________ with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures.
1) started, filled
2) marched, evolved
3) proceeded, pulled
4) started, vanished
5) marched, filled
7. It is height of __________for men who fully appreciate in their own case the great advantages of a good education but __________ these advantages to women.
1) arrogance, abstain
2) propensity, bestow
3) proliferation, advance
4) selfishness, deny
5) stupidity, prohibit
8. As everybody is __________ attached to his motherland it is difficult to find a man who is __________ of love for his motherland.
1). constantly, disposed
2) courageously, suspect
3) profoundly, deprived
4) greatly, connected
5) deeply, devoid
9. If we study the lives of great men we are __________ that we too can achieve greatness and when we die, we leave behind our __________
1) convinced, children
2) reminded, footmarks
3) conveyed, followers
4) commended, belongings
5) proclaimed, memories
10. The society provides the individual security of life, __________ of thought and sustenance for action. Every individual who __________ from society is indebted to the society.
1) serenity, gains
2) prosperity, benefits
3) objectivity, profits
4) seriousness, derives
5) semblance, evolves
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