Sentence Correction, Fill in the blanks, Vocabulary

Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is correct in terms of spelling,puctuation,grammar and usage.

A.)The negative publicity over the Maps fiasco has deterred many Apple users from embracing the new upgrade. The Maps interface is more worse in 'emerging markets'.
B.)In India, for instance, its mostly all the major highways that show up, and major landmarks are misspelt, mis-tagged or simply missing, rendering the entire Maps experience useless.
C.) For instance, a Maps user in Bangalore pointed that the Indian Institute of Management was tagged as 'LIM', making it impossible to trace.
D.)Many landmarks are tagged way off the mark, and even in the cities, many roads are simply missing.
Another effective literary technique Shaw uses is -writing colloquially, whereby he __________ the cockney accent in his writing. The colloquial technique which is a common technique used in literature to create a _______ setting, highlights the stark difference between Eliza's cockney accent and the 'upper class' accent that she eventually develops.
Complete the pragraph.

You probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish. To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptness. You can't quite put your finger on it.

Being highly_____________to criticism, he has kept his stories unpublished.

The world is moving into a period of 'civilisational clash' in which the primary identification of people will not be _________ as during the Cold war, but ___________.

  • ideological, cultural
  • religious, technological
  • cultural, ethnic
  • political, economic

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Walking in the garden, it began to rain.

Analogy


Shoes : Cobbler
You probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and instructions in Swedish. To reach this room, you pass through a cubicle farm lightly populated by quiet young people. Either they have just arrived or they are just leaving, because their desks are almost bare. The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptness. You can't quite put your finger on it.

Is it Correct:

They always give to the new students a warm welcome .

  • No
  • Yes

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Correct Usage:
a)He backed off immediately when I told him my boyfriend was waiting outside.
b)He backed down immediately when I told him my boyfriend was waiting outside.
c)You should back away for a while and let Alan make his own decisions.
d)The house backs onto a field and a nature reserve beyond.

  • C only
  • D only
  • None of the above.
  • A only
  • B only

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They ought to be more sensible, shouldn't they?

  • Incorrect
  • Correct

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Identify the Correct ones:Look for all the possible errors.

a)People in Subhas Nagar area close to Jama Masjid started the construction of a mosque at the site after a building's remains were discovered early this month. (PM 8)
b)The area people claimed that remains were those of the 17th century Mughal-era Akbarabadi Mosque.


  • Both Correct
  • None of them is correct
  • B only
  • A only

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Mamata Banerjee withdrew support _______ the UPA-II government.

  • from
  • to

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The government's corrupt colleagues allegedly ______ with the nation's silver.

  • run off
  • make away
  • make off
  • do away

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Prime Minister's ____ decency may be a handicap.

  • innate
  • ingrained
  • inherent
  • innocuous

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It was then i realised that we declare holidays but fail to tell the children the reason for the holiday . we usually take the day off and do not make any effort at all to _______________

children as to why the day should be celebrated or remembered.


  • preach
  • enlighten
  • explain
  • discuss
  • observe

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Is it correct to say

Some successful criminals enjoy a luxury life.

  • NO
  • Yes

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A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.


Satire, always as sterile as it in shameful and as impotent as it is insolent, paid them that usual homage which mediocrity pays to genius - doing, here as always, infinite harm to the public, blinding them to what is beautiful, teaching them that irreverence which is the source of all vileness and narrowness of life, but harming the artist not at all, rather confirming him in the perfect rightness of his work and ambition.
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

Satire, always as sterile as it in shameful and as impotent as it is insolent, paid them that usual homage which mediocrity pays to genius - doing, here as always, infinite harm to the public, blinding them to what is beautiful, teaching them that irreverence which is the source of all vileness and narrowness of life, but harming the artist not at all, rather confirming him in the perfect rightness of his work and ambition.
In each question, a sentence is divided into four segments labelled 1 to 4. Choose the option which is not correct in grammar and usage
  • savings in the economy as a whole will be run down and assets sold off

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