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’.

The hotels were heavy booked for the festival in Banaras.

Directions: In each of the questions given below a part of the sentence is given in bold. It is then followed by three options. Find the alternative that can replace the given bold part to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If none of the alternatives is correct and the sentence is correct as it is then select option (e) as your choice.

There are two novels on the table which needs to be read before the exams, but neither one are interesting.
 (i) neither one has interested
 (ii) neither one is interesting
 (iii) neither one were interesting

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

Men of skill and brain should be India’s most valuable treasures.

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.
 I keep telling myself how I am lucky to have such wonderful sisters.

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
 He was looking into his book for the last two hours but couldn’t find it.

Directions: In each of the questions given below a part of the sentence is given in bold. It is then followed by three options. Find the alternative that can replace the given bold part to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If none of the alternatives is correct and the sentence is correct as it is then select option (e) as your choice.

Economist Deena Khatkhate, who will pass away at the age of 92 on September 15 in Bethesda, Maryland, in the US, was an unusual man.

(i) who passed away
 (ii) who shall passed away
 (iii) who has passed away

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.
 She is educated than her sister.

Select the option that will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement’.

Dad said that, “She would have been a great sister if she was just a bit more careful”.