Sentence Correction for CAT 2012

MBA CAT 2022
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That store sells men's and boy's shoes.

The table's leg is broken.

For goodness' sake, please stop banging the door.

Both China's and India's poets eulogize the Mount Everest's glory in their poems.

Varun and Kabir's house is really beautiful.

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@gs4890 said: Find the errors in the following. (Every sentence has an error or two)1.

1. That store sells men's and boys' shoes.
#In plural possessive terms, place the apostrophe after the "s." if plural ends in "s.". If plural does not end in "s", then add 's.

2.Leg of the table is broken.
#No possessive case for inanimate objects

3.For goodness' sake, please stop banging the door
#If last syllable the word end in 's' or'ce' and is followed with sake", possessive case is formed b adding ' only. Ex: for jesus' sake

4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize the Mount Everest's glory in their poems.
#However, when two or more people own two or more items separately, each individual's name should take the possessive form

5. Varun and Kabir's house is really beautiful.
#Where two or more people own one item jointly, place an apostrophe before an "s" only after the second-named person




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@gs4890 said: Find the errors in the following. (Every sentence has an error or two) 1. That store sells mens' and boy's shoes. 2. The table's leg is broken. 3. For goodness's sake, please stop banging the door. 4. Both China and India's poets eulogize the Mount Everest's glory in their poems. 5. Varun's and Kabir's house is really beautiful. p.s - posted by @Angadbir bhai last year
1. That store sells men's and boys' shoes.
2. The leg of the table is broken.
3. For goodness' sake, please stop banging (on? ) the door.
4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize Mount Everest's glory in their poems.
5. Varun and Kabir's house is really beautiful.
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@[119759:amresh_maverick] Should there be a "the" before Mount Everest?

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@RoadKill said: @amresh_maverick Should there be a "the" before Mount Everest?
Yes, I think so. It is unique.
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@[119759:amresh_maverick] Dunno, this seems to be a sentence where we should lose "the".


I am not sure if "uniqueness" is a good enough reason for using "the"...
1. I have read William Shakespeare's plays. (correct)
2. I have read the William Shakespeare's plays. (incorrect)
3. He is the William Shakespeare of our age. (correct)

Can anyone help out with this? I am going by intuition here, but it has often been a treacherous friend.
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@[470280:gs4890]

1. That store sells men's and boys' shoes.
2. The leg of the table is broken.
3. For goodness' sake, please stop banging the door.
4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize Mount Everest's glory in their poems.
5. Varun and Kabir's house is really beautiful.
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@gs4890 said: Bimbom bhai & otherz plz look into this...i don't agree with the OA of Q.2,3,4 2. OA is 1 that means a,d & e is correct... flaws i find in these three sentences A. Children in school are encouraged to stop daydreaming and to focus. D. discipline, the kind of thinking we rely on when we don't really want to think.It's a E. sign of procrastination, something to put away with your flip-flops and hammock. m not sure bout e but "something to be put away" doesn't sound riight 3. OA is 3 that means a & e is correct... flaw i find in a A. Tides are generated through a combination of forces which are exerted by the gravitational 4. OA is 3 that means d & e is correct... flaw i find in d D. in the Lyrical Ballads, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, traced to Kant. The idea of such here shouldn't the name of the poet "samuel taylor" come before describing his magnum opus Plz help !! p.s - Special invi for spectra sir & praku sir
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@RoadKill said: @amresh_maverick Dunno, this seems to be a sentence where we

"The" is a definite article and is used with nouns where the reference is clearly to something definite.


1. I have read William Shakespeare's plays. (correct)

2. I have read the William Shakespeare's plays. (incorrect)
Nothing definite.
Ex: I have read one of the plays by William Shakespeare.


3. He is the William Shakespeare of our age. (correct)

In this case "Shakespeare" is not a proper noun but a common noun.
Ex: He is the Milton of our college.

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@[119759:amresh_maverick] Then going by your explanation of point 3 above, we should not have "the" before Mt. Everest, right? It is being treated as a proper noun in the question.

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@RoadKill said: @amresh_maverick Then going by your explanation of point 3 above, we should not have "the" before Mt. Everest, right? It is being treated as a proper noun in the question.

Yes , I think I was wrong there. "The" should not be used before Mt. Everest. But the can be used for certain chains of mountains like : the Alps , the Himalayas.

What do you think ?
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@[119759:amresh_maverick] Yes, mountain ranges will have a preceding "the".

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@amresh_maverick said: 1. That store sells men's and boys' shoes. #In plural possessive terms, place the apostrophe after the "s." if plural ends in "s.". If plural does not end in "s", then add 's. 2.Leg of the table is broken. #No possessive case for inanimate objects 3.For goodness' sake, please stop banging the door #If last syllable the word end in 's' or'ce' and is followed with sake", possessive case is formed b adding ' only. Ex: for jesus' sake 4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize the Mount Everest's glory in their poems. #However, when two or more people own two or more items separately, each individual's name should take the possessive form 5. Varun and Kabir's house is really beautiful. #Where two or more people own one item jointly, place an apostrophe before an "s" only after the second-named person
Amresh bhai 3rd and 4th sentence mein kuchh redundancy error lag raha hai

3. For goodness' sake, stop banging the door.
4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize Mount Everest in their poems.
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Guys, throw some light on the below usages of "For". I can guess what "For" means in these context, but not sure.

McGinn takes the moniker of science as broad enough to include philosophy since the dictionary defines it as “any systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject.” But this definition is so vague that it betrays a widespread confusion as to what science actually is. And McGinn's reminder that its etymology comes from “scientia,” the ancient Latin word for “knowledge,” only adds to the muddle. For by this definition we might well brand every academic discipline as science.


Further, we have to take note of the fact that GNP per capita is not invariably a good predictor of valuable features of our lives, for they depend also on other things that we do — or fail to do.

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@sumeet1489 said: Amresh bhai 3rd and 4th sentence mein kuchh redundancy error lag raha hai 3. For goodness' sake, stop banging the door.4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize Mount Everest in their poems.

sumeet bhai, actually I concentrated on error due to apostrophe. Use of "Please" is not an error in 3. Without it , is also ok acc to me. In 4th, "the" is an error. For redundancy, I will quote an example:So, eulogising someone/something's glory is right

Critics everywhere have eulogized her new novel.

expert comments, plz
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@[119759:amresh_maverick] we do not use an article before the names of countries,mountains except where they indicate multiple areas or contain the words (state(s), kindom, republic, union).

So, the alps and the himalayas, both have ranges but Mt. Everest is name of peak and not ranges...and hence "the" is not required :)

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@htomar said:Guys, throw some light on the below usages of "For". I can guess what "For" means in these context, but not sure. McGinn takes the moniker of science as broad enough to include philosophy since the dictionary defines it as “any systematically organized body of knowledge on any subject.” But this definition is so vague that it betrays a widespread confusion as to what science actually is. And McGinn's reminder that its etymology comes from “scientia,” the ancient Latin word for “knowledge,” only adds to the muddle. For by this definition we might well brand every academic discipline as science. Further, we have to take note of the fact that GNP per capita is not invariably a good predictor of valuable features of our lives, for they depend also on other things that we do — or fail to do.
First use is in Latin word for "knowledge"
This "for" means representing
Second use is in For by this definition
This "for" means because
Third use is in for they depend
This "for" also means because
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@gs4890 said: Find the errors in the following. (Every sentence has an error or two) 1. That store sells mens' and boy's shoes. 2. The table's leg is broken. 3. For goodness's sake, please stop banging the door. 4. Both China and India's poets eulogize the Mount Everest's glory in their poems. 5. Varun's and Kabir's house is really beautiful. p.s - posted by @Angadbir bhai last year

1. That store sells men's and boys' shoes.

2. Leg of the table is broken.

3. For goodness' sake please, stop banging the door.

4. Both China's and India's poets eulogize the Mount Everest's glory in their poems.

5. Varun and Kabir's house is really beautiful.

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SET 96

In each question there are five sentences or parts of sentences that
form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then choose the most appropriate option.

Q1)
A. It is an irony given that Brasilia was built at breakneck speed.
B. The dream of moving the capital from Rio on the Atlantic coast to the
C. centre of the country, had existed for above a century but Kubitschek pursued it with urgency.
D. Commercial and residential zones were seeming meticulously demarcated.
E. Cars zipped alongside wide highways past buildings that projected simplicity and modernity with
fine lines and waves.

(1) A , B (2) B , C (3) A, B, D , E (4) A, B , E (5) A, B , C

Q2)
A. Young describes the sight of a room full of
B. major celebrities as "overpowering seductive".
C. I think they look silly parked alongside one another, like the Ferraris at the super car show I stumbled
upon on a recent trip to Florida.
D. The owners of these status symbols thought they would be looking even cooler clustered together
with others of their kind.
E. Big mistake! Once your eyes had adjusted to the glare from the bonnets, you saw them for what
they were - a paltry collection of consumer durables.
(1) A, B ,C (2) A, B ,E (3) A, C, D ,E (4) C , E (5) A, C , E

Q3)
A. Obviously, they have to be extended and silly, but still characters that you
B. could definitely meet rather than over-the-top caricature.
C. They also have to be fun to do;
D. You have to enjoy playing the character. If people look alike they're
E. enjoying themselves, that comes across on screen and that's how you find your fan base.
(1) A , D (2) A , B (3) B, D , E (4) A, C , E (5) A, B , C

Q4)
A. If staying outside the park boundaries precludes dawn and dusk animal sighting, daytime drives
and walks make up for that.
B. This rolling wilderness, studded with the great angular-branched baobab trees, and intersected by
the Ruaha river,
C. is known for its magnificent elephant population as well as for other mammals and, in particular, its
bird life.
D. A driving safari can cover the ground and will deliver you to concentrations of animals - anxious
zebras, shifty buffaloes, distinguished elephants - but
E. walking safaris take you closer, physically and mentally both, to the soil.
(1) A , B (2) B, C , D (3) C , E (4) C, D , E (5) E only
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SET 96
My take
Q1- (1) A,B
Q2-
Q3- (5) A,B,C
Q4- (1) A,B