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Directions
(1-15): Which of the phrases given below each sentence should replace the
phrase printed in bold italic in the sentence to make it grammatically
correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and No correction required,
mark (E) as the answer.
Q1. The
Governor has a good collection of paintings adorning the walls of
the Raj Bhavan.
(a) painting
adoring the walls
(b) painting
adorning a walls
(c) paintings
sticking the walls
(d) paintings
adorn the walls
(e) No
correction required

Q2. The
argument against privatization stems from a fear that the national assets
were being handed
to private sector.
(a) assets
are being handed over to
(b) assets
is being handled by
(c) asset
have been handed over to
(d) assets
are being handled into
(e) No
correction required
Q3. The
principals and teachers at the selected English medium schools
were contacted.
(a) of the
selected English medium
(b) at the
select English medium
(c) upon the
selected English medium
(d) of the
selection English medium
(e) No
correction required
Q4. Fast
foods can be dangerous as they deprive the body of essential
nutrients.
(a) the body
at essential
(b) the body
of essentially
(c) the body
from essential
(d) the
bodies onto essential
(e) No
correction required
Q5. Some
people feel that the medium of instruction in the colleges in India would
be only English
.
(a) should
has been only English.
(b) will
have be only English.
(c) should
be only English.
(d) would be
English only
(e) No
correction required
Q6. Besides
these norms, the data was also analysed to form the sub groups.
(a) the data
had analysed also
(b) the data
were also concluded
(c) the data
were also analysed
(d) an data
were analysed also
(e) No
correction required
Q7. The
children and their specific problems needs to be identified.
(a) problem
need to be
(b) problems
needed to be
(c) problems
has been
(d) problems
need to be
(e) No
correction required
Q8. He does
not know that Mount Everest in the most highest mountain peak.
(a) is a
more highest mountain
(b) is the
most high mountain
(c) is the
higher mountain
(d) is the
highest mountain
(e) No
correction required
Q9. The
complex nature of the modern industrial civilization and explosion of knowledge
have made the education process very complicated.
(a) has made
the education process
(b) have
made the education process
(c) have
made the education processed
(d) have been
made educational process
(e) No
correction required
Q10.
Learning is defined as a relatively permanently change in our
potential for performance.
(a)
relatively permanent change
(b) relative
permanently change
(c) relatively
permanent changed
(d) permanently
relatively change
(e) No
corrections required
Q11.The
Chairman approved the recommendations of the committee with partiality modifications.
(a) by
partially modified
(b) with
partial modifications
(c) with
partial modifies
(d) by
partially modifying
(e) No
correction required
Q12.He is
the man whose advice is difficult in
following.
(a) advice
is not easy in following
(b) advice
is difficult to follow
(c) advice
has difficult to follow
(d) advice
has difficulty to follow
(e) No
correction required
Q13.He told me that he only had a little money.
(a) tells me
that he only has a little
(b) told me
that only he has a little
(c) only
told me that he has little
(d) told me
that he had only a little
(e) No
correction required
Q14.Though
people should be right to protest,
it should not be by upsetting the livelihood of others.
(a) should
be righteous in protesting
(b) should
have right to protest
(c) would be
right in protest
(d) should
have been right to protest
(e) No
correction required
Q15.The
newly-wed couple was shocked when it was observed that many people who had been invited missing.
(a) were
invited
(b) had been
invited were 
(c) had
invited were
(d) had been
invited had been
(e) No
correction required
Solutions
S1. Ans.(e) 
Sol. No correction required. The given
sentence is grammatically correct. 

S2. Ans.(a) 
Sol. Write – assets are being handed over to

S3. Ans.(a) 
Sol. Write – of the selected English medium

S4. Ans.(e) 
Sol. No correction required. The given
sentence is grammatically correct. 

S5. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Write – should be only English.

S6. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Write- the data were also analysed

S7. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Write- problems need to be

S8. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Write – “is the highest mountain”.
Double comparative or superlative should be avoided.

S9. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write- have made the education process

S10. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  Write- relatively permanent change

S11. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Write – with partial modifications

S12. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Write – advice is difficult to
follow 

S13. Ans.(d) 

Sol.  Write ‘told me that he had only a
little’.

S14. Ans.(b) 

Sol.  Write ‘should have right to
protest’.

S15. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  had been invited were. auxiliary
verb ‘were’ will be used.

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