Direction: Use the verbs given in brackets either in Active or Passive according to sense of the given sentence.
Yesterday the meaning of the poem……..to the students but they……it.(explain, understand)

Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .

With time now available for leisure, my father (discover) a new side to himself.

Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

As soon as she noticed the workmen, she asked them what they have been doing.

Direction: - Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark your answer.

When Ram lost the money, he was down in the dumps.

In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.

Every year millions of tourists ______ the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
Tomatoes sown around July in the southern states are harvested in October.

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order.
A: A man on a bike had to ride on the pavement.
B: When he tried to plunge onto the road, a car hit him.
C: As the bus inched through the evening life, the traffic grew.
D: There was no space on the road any more.

In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each sentence,there are five words out of which one can be used to fill the blank to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate word that fit into the blank contextually.

In the past year alone, India has ______________ defence deals worth about $14.5 billion from Russia.