English Practice Question and Answer

Q:

In these questions read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. If there is no error, the answer is (D).

Some members of the committee were opposed to use the club members’ money to redecorate the meeting hall.

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    Some members of the committee
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    were opposed to use
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    the club members’ money to redecorate the meeting hall.
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    Wrong
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    No error
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Answer : 2. "were opposed to use"

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What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
 Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon. 

The latest symbol of modernity for the rural people is – 

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    The bicycle
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    The wristwatch
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    The transistor
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    The synthetic cloth
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Answer : 4. "The synthetic cloth"

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Choose the correct tense form of the verb given in bracket from the options given below to fill in the blank:
 It is time you ______ (stop) playing.

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    stops
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    have stopped
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    stopping
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    stopped
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Answer : 4. "stopped"

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Answer : 2. "Popular destination for"

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Answer : 1. "A"

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Directions: In the questions, a sentence has been given in Active / Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive / Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.

The boy has rung the bell. 

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    The bell was rung by the boy.
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    The bell has been being rung by the boy.
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    The bell has been rung by the boy.
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    The bell was being rung by the boy.
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Answer : 3. "The bell has been rung by the boy. "

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