Grammar and English Usage

MBA CAT 2022
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CAT 2014: Important dates

MBA aspirants will have to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) for the session 2014 on either of the two days - November 16 and November 22.

The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Indore will conduct the exam this year. The registration process will start August 06 onwards.

Important Dates
Date of commencement of online registration:  August 6, 2014 (Wednesday)
Last date of registration: September 30, 2014 (Tuesday)
Download of Admit Card: October 16, 2014 (Thursday)
CAT exam dates (forenoon and afternoon sessions): November 16, 2014 (Sunday) and November 22, 2014 (Saturday)
Tentative dates for Results: Third week of December 2014

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A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area ____________________.


  • from the laws of science
  • within a certain time period
  • which people have forgotten
  • which is not relevant to the book

0 voters

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I suggest all to go through the below list of books

1)A Handbook of English for Professionals,Author(s)  . Eliah


Amazon weblink
http://www.amazon.in/Handbook-English-Professionals-P-Eliah/dp/8178003244/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=14...

Contents

Unit I - GRAMMAR: 1. Parts of Speech 2. Punctuation Unit II - COMPOSITION: 1. Features of A Good Sentence 2. Paragraph 3. Essay 4. Synposis 5. Report Writing 6. Letter Writing 7. Note-Taking 8. Concord 9. Common Errors 10. Listening Skills 11. Fast Reading Skills 12. Reading Comprehension Unit III - VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT: 1. Spelling and Pronounciation 2. Prefixes and Suffixes 3. Synonyms and Antonyms 4. Foreign Words and Phrases 5. Words and Expressions to Avoid 6. Analogy 7. Pairs of Words Often Confused UNIT IV - SPEAKING SKILLS: 1. Phonetics 2. Oral Presentation Skills UNIT V - COMMUNICATION SKILLS: 1. Communication 2. Modern Office Technology 3. Idiomatic Expressions 4. Job-Seeking Techniques 5. Building a Team 6. Team Leadership

About the Author

Dr. P. Eliah, a former Professor of English, has 50 years of teaching and research experience. He worked in different capacities and participated in a number of national and international seminars, workshops and orientation programmes and presented papers and published articles, in addition to the present volume, Dr. Eliah has published two volumes of English poetry and a good number of reading materials besides occasional essays and short stories.

2)Communicative Competence,Author(s) :Bhaskara Rao


Amazon.in
http://www.amazon.in/Communicative-Competence-Varansi-Bhaskar-Rao/dp/8178001187/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q...

About the Book

Starting with 'Say What You Mean' as Introduction the Author emphasises on clarity and coherence in communication. He deals with various aspects of oral and written communication like choice and arrangement of words, style and tone of utterances. Complex concepts are conveyed in simple diction with apt acronyms and memories. He has presented critical ideas in the form of acronymnemonics (acronyms used as mnemonics, a memory aid). This book deals with the much neglected diction in oral and written communication. The book is aimed as ADEPT program. The acronym stands for Appreciation, Demonstration, Experimentation, Practice and Transfer. There are five steps to build one's communicative competence. All living beings need to communicate to meet their necessities. But a professional who wants to make a successful career must have extraordinary ability to communicate with competence and clarity. The books helps in the first two vital steps - appreciation and demonstration. It also designed for teaching - learning. The author has brought many ideas and put them together which is rarely found in the books on soft skills. To some extent, the book will serve as reference material for those who have limited or no access to such material.

Contents

1. Introduction 2. Oral Communication 3. Written Communication 4. Appendices I to V.

3)Successful Career Soft Skills and Business English Personality Development and Career Path ,Author(s) :Varanasi Bhaskara Rao, Y. Kameswari


Amazco.in weblink
http://www.amazon.in/Successful-Business-English-Personality-Development/dp/8178002396/ref=sr_1_1?ie...

Contents

PART A : SUCCESSFUL CAREER AND SOFT SKILLS Introduction Section I : From Nowhere To Somewhere1. Set Forth the Journey 2. Unique Path Section II : Wherefore You Know Where 1. Choice of Career 2. Control of Careers 3. Enterprise, Enterpreneurship and Ethics Section III : Where on - To Weather, Not Wither 1. Steering Through, Soaring High 2. Swerve and Sever Section IV : From Here To Eternity 1. Fitness 2. Utility 3. Legacy Epilogue PART B : BUSINESS ENGLISH Section V : British Legacy - Use of English 1. Where does Indian English stand? (a) Common errors in English (b) From local to global 2. Communication - Written and Oral (a)Oral communication (b) Written communication (c) What makes one an effective writer 3. Conversations in writing (a) The substance and spirit (b) Layout of a business letter (c) Other forms of business communication Curriculum vitae - E-mail - Memorandum - Fax 4. Report writing

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for improving ur rc score u need to improve ur reading skills and the best way to do is to read

for that follow this discussion for daily suggestion

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Some interesting words which mite come in handy

  • 1. Tittle
    The dot over an 'i' or 'j.'
  • 2. Lunule
    The white, crescent shaped part at the top of a nail.
  • 3. Crepuscular Rays
    Rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky. Also known as "God's rays."
  • 4. Ferrule
    The metal part on a pencil.
  • 5. Gynecomastia
    Man-boobs.
  • 6. Muntin
    The strip separating window panes.
  • 7. Morton's Toe
    When your second toe is bigger than your big toe.
  • 8. Arms Akimbo
    Exactly what it looks like. Hands on your hips.
  • 9. Desire Path
    A path created by natural means, simply because it is the "shortest or most easily navigated" way.
  • 10. Semantic Satiation
    What happens when you say a word for so long that it loses its meaning. Limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit limit.
  • 11. Skeuomorph
    "A design feature copied from a similar artifact in another material, even when not functionally necessary." For example, rivets on jeans, copper color on pennies, the shutter sound on a digital camera, and the pointless handle above.
  • 12. Brannock Device
    What is used to measure your feet at the shoe store.
  • 13. Paresthesia
    The pins and needles feeling you get when part of your body falls asleep. Bonus! This is known as obdormition.
  • 14. Phosphenes
    The lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.
  • 15. Armscye
    The armhole in most clothing.
  • 16. Wamble
    Stomach rumble.
  • 17. Feat
    A dangling piece of curly hair.
  • 18. Peen
    The side opposite the hammer's striking side.
  • 19. Rectal Tenesmus
    The feeling of incomplete defecation. We've all been there.
  • 20. Dysania
    The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
  • 21. Mondegreen
    Misheard lyrics.
  • 22. Petrichor
    The way it smells outside after rain.
  • 23. Philtrum
    The groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.
  • 24. Purlicue
    The space between the thumb and the forefingers.
  • 25. Aglet
    The plastic coating on a shoelace


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qtn - they say that you dit that

    1)you are told to do that

     2)you are advised to do that

   3) you did that said by them

4) you are said to have done that

qtn-woman like men to flatter them

 1) men are liked by women to flatter them

2)women like to be flattered by men

  3) women like that men should flatter them

4) women are liked to be flattered by men

qtn - it is your duty to make tea at eleven  o'clock

1) you are asked to make tea at eleven o' clock

2) your are required to make tea at eleven o' clock

3) you are supposed to make tea at eleven o'clock

4) tea is to be made by you at eleven o' clock

topic-sentence completion

 we are completely taken ........by the estate agent who turned out to be a crook.

1 for                        2 on

3  off                         4 in

2)we were ....... from seeing the prisoner

1 affected      2 prevented

 3 inhibited     4 punished

3) the flash of the torch ........a cobra

1 exposed     2 displayed

  3 disclosed   4 revealed

4)mrs laljee in her modest way.....a little and slipped the chain isside her dress

 1broken    2 pushed 

3 pressed    4 flushed


512

An invitation to singing is not greeted politely at the end of a thirty

miles/ mile march .

Also share the reason .








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A list of Most Useful Proverbs

1. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Meaning :

You may walk long or get a big success but you start with a single and simple step.

2. A bad penny always turns up.

Meaning:

Your mistakes willcome back to hunt you.

3. A good enemy is - better person than a false friend.

Meaning:

A clever enemy is better than a fool friend.


4. A big tree attracts the woodman's axe.

Meaning:

Great people will attract great criticism.


5. A bad work man blames his tools.

Meaning:

When we can't do something we blame others for it.



6. Bad news travels fast.


Meaning:

When we can't do something we blame others for it.























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You can use these machines only between 9 A.m. and 5 P.M.? C or IC

515

problem in error detection ,close test,passage,fill in the blanks

516

Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. Another of his start-ups was sold to Google.
  2. He founded the first company to sell virtual reality products.
  3. But unlike most of his fellow technologists, he eventually came to feel that the rise of digital networks was no panacea.
  4. He was there, more or less, at its creation.
  5. Lanier has an unusual authority to criticize the digital economy:


517

Sentences given in the following question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

  1. Two reforms are possible here. The first is to encourage more entrants, since competition will reduce the incentive to store for long periods.
  2. However, if storage facilities are controlled by a small group of middlemen who procure in large volumes to manipulate price, it amounts to market failure.
  3. Hence, creation of storage facilities is encouraged in policy circles.
  4. Indian agriculture is vulnerable to sharp price cycles.
  5. The second is to bring in some degree of transparency and market intelligence.


518

i feel disheartened by seeing most of the guys scoring 99.9%iles.... when i am struggling between 90-95 %iles....:-( .....

BUT MY RESOLUTION IS THAT IN COMING AIMCATS I WILL PUSH MY LIMITS AND COME IN 99%ILE GROUP.. 

will post every result.... hopefully in 99s


519

The closing of small, inexpensive hospitals while large expensive hospitals remain open seems a luxury that we can no longer afford in order to maintain them.



  1. seems to emphasize luxury over economy, which we can no longer afford.
  2. seems to be a waste of valuable resources.
  3. seems a luxury we can no longer afford.
  4. seems too luxurious to be any longer affordable.


520

The ancient question of the exact difference between plants and animals, which was so complicated with the discovery of microscopic members of both groups, was somewhat sidestepped with the establishment of a third phylum, the Protista, reserved just for them



  1. consisting only of them
  2. inhabited only by them
  3. which includes all microscopic life
  4. which would have included all microscopic plants and animals


@ Asia Pacific Institute Of Management


521

The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania affords the visitor with unequalled opportunities to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.



  1. The Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania permits the visitor unequalled opportunities to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.
  2. The Lake Manyara -Park in Tanzania gives the visitor the unequalled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees without telephoto lenses.
  3. The visitor to the Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania has the unequalled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees without the aid of telephoto lenses.
  4. Even without the aid of telephoto lenses, the visitor to Tanzania's Lake Manyara Park has an unequalled opportunity to photograph lions playing in trees.


522

Though one eye is kept firmly on the ___, the company now also promotes ___ contemporary art.

a. present ... experimental b. future ... popular

c. present ... popular d. market ... popular


523

The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree, even if it grows on one's own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the government, this legal provision leads to a rip-roaring business for ___, who care neither for the ___, nor for the trees.

a. middlemen ... rich         b. the government ... poor

c. touts ... rich                    d. touts ... poor


524

It will take some time for many South Koreans to ___ the conflicting images of North Korea, let alone to ___ what to make of their northern cousins.

a. reconcile ... decide b. understand ... clarify

c. make out ... decide d. reconcile ... understand

 

 by: Asia Pacific Institute Of Management


525

In these bleak and depressing times of ___ prices, non-performing governments and ___ crime rates, Sourav Ganguly has given us, Indians, a lot to cheer about.

a. escalating ... increasing     b. spiralling ... booming

c. spiralling ... soaring            d. ascending ... debilitating