Sentence Correction for CAT 2012

MBA CAT 2022
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@Highway66 said: Set_Z
Identify the correct sentence-
1. The Union budget is aiming to provide access to masses and encourage private participation to set up or expand existing facilities.
2. The Union budget is aiming at providing access to masses and encouraging private participation for setting or expanding existing facilities.
3. The Union budget aims to provide access to masses and encourage private participation to setting up or expanding existing facilities.
4. The Union budget aims at provision of access to masses and encourage private participation to set up or expand existing facilities.
1. 1 2. 2 3. 3 4. 4
Ek baar ye pehle wale post ka doubt aur dekh lijiye..
Option 1
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@fir3f0x said:
Option 1
answer de diye h aapke sets ke pehle hi bhai..

Answers for word selection

1. effect
2. incredulously
3. ingenuousness

3. mera doubt h.. mere hisaab se ingenuity is cleverness.. why ingenuousness??
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@Highway66 said:
answer de diye h aapke sets ke pehle hi bhai..
Answers for word selection
1. effect
2. incredulously
3. ingenuousness
3. mera doubt h.. mere hisaab se ingenuity is cleverness.. why ingenuousness??
Ingenuousness means naivety / Frankness..which is unusual in grown up women. Their age and experience makes them much more clever and apt and non naive.
But they can be clever though..so ingenuity cannot be unusual.
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@fir3f0x thanx yar.. error on my part..
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@Highway66 Do you have IMS simcats of 2009 - 2010 - 2011??..very good for VA..?
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@fir3f0x sorry nahi h
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Identify the incorrect sentence and point out the error:


A. There are still people in India who speculate in the relative merits of Sankara's and Ramanuja's philosophy, though they do not thereby presume to acquire the prominence of those two founders.
B. I know of few moments more precious than those in which i stood poised on a ledge, master of my next upward move as of the view down.
C. Much of the Missionaries have often stood in the front line of exploration, as the Jesuits did in South America, and through faith have performs feat impossible by any other standards.
D. I am really meaning the feeling that comes to most at certain times, that they are fulfilling a greater purpose by doing what they do.
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Can anyone explain the solution to the question

We have to identify the sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage.



Solution:






Why d is incorrect?
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@Highway66


Only D

A. There are still people in India who speculate in(on) the relative merits of Sankara's and Ramanuja's philosophy, though they do not thereby presume to acquire the prominence of those two founders.
B. I know of few moments more precious than those in which i stood poised on a ledge, master of my next upward move as of the view down.
C. Much of the Missionaries have often stood in the front line of exploration, as the Jesuits did in South America, and through faith have performs(performed) feat impossible by any other standards.
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@Highway66 said: Identify the incorrect sentence and point out the error:
A. There are still people in India who speculate in the relative merits of Sankara's and Ramanuja's philosophy, though they do not thereby presume to acquire the prominence of those two founders.
B. I know of few moments more precious than those in which i stood poised on a ledge, master of my next upward move as of the view down.
C. Much of the Missionaries have often stood in the front line of exploration, as the Jesuits did in South America, and through faith have performs feat impossible by any other standards.
D. I am really meaning the feeling that comes to most at certain times, that they are fulfilling a greater purpose by doing what they do.
A - incorrect. it should not be sankara's and ramanuja's the 's should follow only the latter person when both are pointing to the same i.e philosophy. also i guess still word should be before speculate
b. incorrect - of is necessary????
c. not sure 😞 😞 incorrect lag raha hai but not sure..
d. incorrect. i am really meaning??? it should be i really mean

Please give the OA

Also puys please use the set number so that it will be easy for everyone to answer without quoting the whole thing 😃
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@Highway66 said: 1. If we can effect/affect a certain measure of economic security for all families, this nation will be a much happier one.
2. He stand (1.incredulously, 2. incredibly) at the strange sight, refusing to believe the evidence of his own eyes.
3. Such (1. ingenuity, 2. ingenuousness) in a grown woman is unusual.
why for 1 effect is tha asnwer??
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@batrsumit effect describes result and affect describes action..
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@chandrakant.k @bimbom

For the sentence correction set answer is B only.. here's why:
A. speculates 'on' not 'in'
B. no error
C. Much will not be used.. Many will be used here..
D. Mean is known as the verb of perception. it does not take ing form..
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SET ZZZ

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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@batrsumit said:
why for 1 effect is tha asnwer??
Effect is generally used as a noun. But when it means "to bring about", effect is used.

If we can effect/affect a certain measure of economic security for all families, this nation will be a much happier one.

Penicillin can effect recovery withing 24 hours of intake. (not affect)

1> Why does he effect/affect such effeminate manners ?
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Set ZZZ
@amresh_maverick

1.1
2.5
3.4
4. wouldnt have attempted in CAT, i think it is 2
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@amresh_maverick
for effect/affect manners
affect is my answer
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@amresh_maverick bhai answer de do apke set ke

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@Highway66 said: Identify the incorrect sentence and point out the error:
A. There are still people in India who speculate in the relative merits of Sankara's and Ramanuja's philosophy, though they do not thereby presume to acquire the prominence of those two founders.
B. I know of few moments more precious than those in which i stood poised on a ledge, master of my next upward move as of the view down.
C. Much of the Missionaries have often stood in the front line of exploration, as the Jesuits did in South America, and through faith have performs feat impossible by any other standards.
D. I am really meaning the feeling that comes to most at certain times, that they are fulfilling a greater purpose by doing what they do.
.
I think c is incorrect.......tense error....
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@Saumz said:

A. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its fourth assessment on climate science in 2007; This was the one that called evidence of warming temperatures "unequivocal" B. The past few years have seen a marked decline in the percentage of Americans who believe what scientists say about climate, with belief among conservatives falling especially fast. 1. A alone is correct 2. B alone is correct 3. Both A and B are correct 4. neither A nor B is correct

please find the error and also explain...

OA PLEASE............