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You see him every day, sometimes on the street, sometimes in the ration shop, an ageless and timeless entity in the ever–changing world around him. And yet he is elusive. The man–in–the–street is no flesh–and–bone creature but a mere statistic, an apocryphal figure who is invoked by politicians and economists alike but with whom they are most comfortable as long as he remains abstract.
a. Public welfare for them is exclusively the welfare of this ever elusive man.
b. It is precisely because he is abstract that they are so comfortable with him.
c. Let us go beyond abstraction and get to the concrete reality of this common man.
c. He is their Man Friday.
d. But how can you find him on the street if he is so elusive?
c
Friends, I am Sayan from Kolkata..I am taking the CL mocks, Is there a thread where we can discuss those mocks?? Please let me know..
I guess " we enjoyed the party" would be sufficient.
@chetna_serious CAN you please let me know whether or not at is required here.
i think both are correct.
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Usage#Choose correct sentences or partsA. I am an Android fan and much prefer experience than the IOS worldB. But If I am paying a bomb for a tablet or a phone I'd been hard pressedC. To find a tablet as clearly competent as the I padD. The Nexus 10 comes close, but it's not easy to find
P:S Dnt simply answer give ur explanations too........
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Both the players were neck to neck in the competition.
This club has lost ______motto.
_____ not easy to keep your word always.
Bf : Meet me at Babu Ganesan at 7Gf : Never heard of it. Let's go together.
(When they reach)Gf : You meant BARB-Q-NATION !!
So Babu Ganesan is MONDEGREEN [mon-di-green] of Barb-Q-Nation.
MONDEGREEN :A word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung.
@pathetic @Khushi_R @cristianokaka @skks @chetna_serious
Suggest best book for Objective English..
Find the incorrect word usage and explain why a sentence is incorrect
1. DEAL
(1) The actor dealt the villain a blow to the stomach.
(2) He bought a used TV that worked for two days and then quit. He sure got a raw deal.
(3) I reckon we got a square deal on that car.
(4) The two lawyers sliced a deal that left me with my car while my former wife got all my money.
2. FOOL
(1) Don't fool along those matches, you will burn yourself!
(2) She fooled away the week's pay on an expensive dress.
(3) They made a fool of me by pretending I had won a lottery
(4) The CEO of the company is a disciplinarian who does not suffer fools gladly.
3. LINE
(1) Workers on the Maruti assembly line have gone on strike several times in the past few months
(2) The government took a hard line and sacked all the strikers, never to reinstate them.
(3) The iPhone 5, the latest in the line of the smartphones, debuted in September.
(4) She promised that she would throw me a line whenever she had time.
4. TONE
(1) When I met him he was toning the guitar.
(2) The green curtains had a particularly sombre tone.
(3) An aerobic workout combines fast and slow movements that tone up the body.
(4) Obama's words and the tone he spoke in implied genuine syntony with those same principles as well as a
commitment to continue his legacy.
Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence
A. The policy makers in most of the developing economies recognise this importance and have been implementing a host of programmes and measures to achieve rural development objectives.
B. While some of these countries have achieved impressive results from those programmes and measures, others have failed to make a significant dent in the problem of persistent rural underdevelopment.
C. The socio-economic disparities between rural and urban areas are widening and creating tremendous pressure on the social and economic fabric of many such developing economies .
D. These factors, among many others, tend to highlight the importance of rural development.
E. Although millions of rural people have escaped poverty as a result of rural development in many Asian countries, a large majority of rural people continue to suffer from persistent poverty.
P.S--- will post the OA later :) 
Find the proper sequence..the options are indicated below.
A. The recent communal violence in Hyderabad and in Bareilly a month ago has remained on the sidelines of national attention.
B. In both cities, the present round of violence was preceded by mobilisations and speeches,primarily by Hindu fundamentalist groups.
C. Fortunately, there was no death in the violence in Bareilly, while in Hyderabad only three people were killed.
D. Yet, the scale, planning and causes behind the riots indicate a certain change in the morphology of the typical riot, a change which needs to be identified and understood if we want to keep religious sectarianism and violence in check.
E. Communal violence has become so endemic to the polity of India that it has ceased to attract much attention outside its immediate area of impact, or unless it crosses very high levels of fatality and barbarity.
(a) EACDB (b) ABEDC (c) EABCD (d) ABCDE
Rearrange the following five sentences in proper sequence
A. It is no wonder that a majority of these excluded and low-achievers come from the most deprived sections of the society.
B. They are precisely those who are supposed to be empowered through education.
C. With heightened political consciousness about the plight of these to-be-empowered people, never in the history of India has the demand for inclusive education been as fervent as today.
D. They either never enrol or they drop out of schools at different stages during these eight year.
E. Of the nearly 200 million children in the age group between 6 and 14 years. more than half do not complete eight years of elementary education.
F. Of those who do complete eight year of schooling, the achievement levels of a large percentage, in language and mathematics, is unacceptably low.
P.S--- will post OA later
Hey guyz is it necessary to follow newspapers lyk hindus n others for cat i mean if d matter is of gettin updated with the current affairs then we can opt for magazines also bt would they hlp regarding vocab..???
which optn is better magazines or newspapers...???
Which part of this sentence has a mistake and Please also comment the correction.
a) The man who,
b)I have often met
c)is one whose property has been
d)acquired by the government.
Identify the incorrect sentences. The errors may relate to grammar,
punctuation, spelling, usage of idiomatic expressions as well as phrasal verbs. Four answer choices have
been provided. Choose the one which matches your answer choice.
1. (1) Telecom service provider Uninor, a subsidiary of Telenor has closed down its network in Mumbai since
Saturday.
(2) While most of Uninors customers were taken up by surprise, some were helped by recharge service
providers to migrate to another network of their choice.
(3) Uninor said it was extending assistance to its employees in Mumbai to finding new employment.
(4) The company said it will ensure a transparent and comprehensive settlement towards all it's distributors
and retailers.
(1) 1 and 1 (2) 2 and 4
(3) All of the above (4) 2, 3 and 4
2. (1) Sport is all about aggression.
(2) Some of us try and come into terms with this.
(3) €œSport is war minus shooting. €? So said George Orwell.
(4) But most of us continue to pretend sport is all that a French Baron de Coubertin claimed - that it was
about courage, honouring, glory, bonding and selflessness.
(1) 2 and 4 (2) 2, 3 and 4
(3) 3 and 4 (4) All of the above
3. (1) If you think your smartphone and its webcam were protected by Android's security mechanisms, think
again.
(2) The operating system is dependant on two basic principles:
(3) The user must grant each app authorisation for what it wants access to, and apps are strictly separated
from one another.
(4) This way malware could only upload stolen data if it has been authorised for internet access.
(1) 1and 2 (2) 2 and 4
(3) 3 and 4 (4) 1, 2 and 4
4. (1) In the corruption scandal surrounding the sale of Euro-fighter jets to Austria more and more information
suggest that European defence giant EADS may have played a role in bribery aimed to secure the
lucrative contract.
(2) The affair has the potential in damaging the company's image and its bottom line.
(3) The bribe was purposely distributed via a complex web of shell companies based in the Isle of Man, a tax
heaven in the Irish Sea.
(4) Investigations are underway and if doubts are confirmed, the European industry will be shaken by yet
another bribery scandal, with significant risks for the defence giant.
(1) 1 and 2 (2) 2 and 3
(3) 1, 2 and 3 (4) All of the above
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
HELP
(1) The syrup will help your cold.
(2) I cannot help the colour of my skin.
(3) Ranjit may help himself with the beer in the fridge.
(4) Do you really expect me to help you out with the cash?