Grammar and English Usage

Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence.

To be a great manager requires, strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and demands a can-do attitude.

A.requires strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and demands

B.requires strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and

C.requires strong inter-personal skills, demands the ability to think fast, and

D.requiring strong inter-personal skill, an ability to think fast, and demands

E.demands strong inter-personal skills, an ability to think fast, but with


Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.

1. As chroniclers of an incremental process, they discover that additional research makes it harder, not easier, to answer questions like: When was oxygen discovered? Who first conceived of energy conservation?

2. Simultaneously, these same historians confront growing difficulties in distinguishing the "scientific" component of past observation and belief from what their predecessors had readily labeled "error" and "superstition."

3. Increasingly, a few of them suspect that these are simply the wrong sorts of questions to ask. Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions.

4. In recent years, however, a few historians of science have been finding it more and more difficult to fulfill the functions that the concept of development-by-accumulation assigns to them.

A.2, 1, 3, 4

B.4, 3, 1, 2

C.4, 2, 3, 1

D.4, 3, 2, 1

E.4, 1, 3, 2


Help me out with this:

which one is correct: "Me and my brother" or "My brother and I "? Or both are correct?



Sentence Completion: He was so ...............at tying fisherman's flies that he was asked to demonstrate his technique at sports fairs and exhibitions.

a) applicable b) adroit c) fancy d) gauche

Their achievement in the field of literature is described as_________;sometimes it is even called _________.

a) magnificent,irresponsible b) insignificant,influential c) significant,paltry d) unimportant,trivial


This questions has a paragraph from which the last
sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.




Most people at their first consultation take a furtive look at the surgeon's hands in the hope of reassurance. Prospective patients look for delicacy, sensitivity, steadiness, perhaps unblemished pallor. On this basis, Henry Perowne loses a number of cases each year. Generally, he knows it's
about to happen before the patient does: the downward glance repeated, the prepared questions beginning to falter, the overemphatic thanks during the retreat to the door.

(1) Other people do not communicate due to their poor observation.
(2) Other patients don't like what they see but are ignorant of their right to go elsewhere.
(3) But Perowne himself is not concerned.'
(4) But others will take their place, he thought.
(5) These hands are steady enough, but they are large.

The question has a paragraph from which the last
sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.


Trade protectionism, disguised as concern for the climate, is raising its head. Citing competitiveness concerns, powerful industrialized countries are holding out threats of a levy on imports of energy-intensive products from developing countries that refuse to accept their demands. The actual source of protectionist sentiment in the OECD countries is, of course, their current lacklustre economic performance, combined with the challenges posed by the rapid economic rise of China and India - in that order.

(1) Climate change is evoked to bring trade protectionism through the back door.
(2) OECD countries are taking refuge in climate change issues to erect trade barriers against these
two countries.
(3) Climate change concerns have come as a convenient stick to beat the rising trade power of
China and India.
(4) Defenders of the global economic status quo are posing as climate change champions.
(5) Today's climate change champions are the perpetrators of global economic inequity.


MERCURIAL :TEMPER

Capitulate : surrender


Appropriate replacement for the highlighted word[TIME MOCKS]

With the outflow of foreign funds from domestic equity market and month end dollar demand by oil companies sending the rupee weaker, there appears to be a blatz in the market fundamentals.The depreciating rupee is a cause of concern

Physicians may soon have _____ to help paralyzed people move their limbs by bypassing the ____
nerves that once controlled their muscles.
(1) instruments, detrimental
(3) reason, involuntary
(2) ways, damaged
(4) impediments, complex


-Asia Pacific Institute Of Management

-Asia Pacific Institute Of Management


The Athenians on the whole were peaceful and prosperous, they had _____ to sit at home and think
about the universe and dispute with Socrates, or to travel abroad and _____ the world.
(1) leisure, explore
(2) time, ignore
(3) ability, suffer
(4) temerity, understand


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Parajumbles and Odd sentences 


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(1)The woman killed the child because she wanted/ (2)to take revenge from her daughter-in-law,/(3) whom she blamed from taking away /(4)her son from her/(5) no error

explain the error as well

Find mistakes:


we work together for 5 months, initially he pay me 75 INR for 11 website per 15hr. but no, of website increase to 21 but he pay me still 75 INR for per 15 hr. where i need time 26 to 28 hr to complete his 21 website, but extra hours i never got paid, and he said now that i try to get paid double,

can someone pls suggest a decent coaching institute for verbal preparation for cat 2015

Match these Words;

1. Obsequious           a. Snobbish

2. querulous              b. harmless

3. supercilious           c. gaunt

4. Obstreperous        d. short of funds

5. impecunious          e. fawning 

6. chivalrous               f. sorrowful

7. innocuous               g. addicted to drink

8. bibulous                  h.Courteous to women

9. cadaverous             i. complaining

10. dolorous                j. unmanageable  

Change this into back Active Voice;

Alice was not much surprised at this.!

which is correct 

hello India fans

or

hello Indian fans