Grammar and English Usage

MBA CAT 2024
21

Mark the Erroneous part

1)The disease
2)is unique
3)in the continent
4)of africa

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

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22

few agree with my selection i still think it should be ______

  • she
  • her

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23

The lead actor took a curtain call/ curtain raiser at the end of the performance.

  • curtain raiser
  • curtain call

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24


a. It is dry and hot.
b. I recline under the shade of a thick arbour.
c. It is free from the glaring sun.
d. A few feet away Mohamed and the camp commander work out our programme.


  • C,D
  • ONLY B
  • A,C,D
  • B,C,D
  • B,D

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25

Please identify the two words in the sentence that have been misplaced.


Employment figures plunging hopes that the economy may not be raise into recession after all


  • plunging; raise
  • figures; raise
  • hopes; after
  • into; economy

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26
find which part ha s e rror

People prefer to be identified (A) /by their caste community or religion first (B) / rather tobe known as Indians first. (C) No error. (D)
27

The clerk directed Ram to the concerned officer.
This is incorrect usage of concern.
Correct usage is :
The clerk directed Ram to the officer concerned.
Can you Explain why so?
Thanks a lot!

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Statistics published by the Traffic Control Department show that nearly 80% of all traffic fatalities occur at speeds of under 50 miles per hour and within 25 miles of home. Therefore, you are safer in a car if you are driving at a speed over 50 miles per hour and not within a 25-mile radius of your home.
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the conclusion of the argument above?
29

Which of the following sentences are correct .

A. I'd rather cook the dinner now.

B. I'd rather you cooked the dinner now.


    1. A
    1. B
    1. A and b Both.
    1. None is correct

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30
I have to work everyday/every day this week except Friday
choose correct
  • everyday
  • every day
  • doesn't matter, can use any

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31

choose the correct option

  • You are not presently in a chat session
  • You are presently not in a chat session
  • You are currently not in a chat session
  • You are not currently in a chat session

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32

She is a most energetic woman

  • false
  • true

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33

Have you any statistics that would enforce your argument?

Is the above sentence correct?

no OA. plz discuss

  • correct
  • not correct

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34

constrained by paucity of funds the project had to be shelved midway.

  • restrained
  • intimidated
  • hindered
  • hampered

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35
choose the sentence that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks and feels solid and opaque because our sensory systems and brains find it convenient to treat it as solid and opaque. It is convenient for the brain to represent a rock as solid because we can't walk through it. 'Solid' is our way of experiencing things that we can't walk through or fall through, because of the electromagnetic forces between atoms.
  • Although this definition is incomplete. Running humans and animals may have contact periods greater than 50% of a gait cycle when rounding corners, running uphill or carrying loads.
  • Thus it is that our sensory system keeps us from perceiving the reality of matter on the atomic scale.

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Para completion:

When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks and feels solid and opaque because our sensory systems and brains find it convenient to treat it as solid and opaque. It is convenient for the brain to represent a rock as solid because we can't walk through it. 'Solid' is our way of experiencing things that we can't walk through or fall through, because of the electromagnetic forces between atoms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  • When a field travels across to different media, the properties of the field change according to the various boundary conditions. These equations are derived from Maxwell's equations.
  • Although this definition is incomplete.Running humans and animals may have contact periods greater than 50% of a gait cycle when rounding corners, running uphill or carrying loads.
  • Thus it is that our sensory system keeps us from perceiving the reality of matter on the atomic scale.

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37
Rain and cold ......... me miss my loved ones
  • makes
  • make

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38
Find out the correct sentence, sentences in terms of grammar and uses choose the most appropriate one.
A. so once an economy is actually in recession.
B. the authorities can, in principal, move the economy.
C. Out of slump-assuming hypothetically.
D. That they know how to-by a temporary stimuli.
E. In the longer term,however,such policies have no affect on the overall behaviour of the economy
    1. B only
    1. A,B,E
    1. E only
    1. C & D
    1. B,C & E

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39

1. The cake had lots of currents(A) / currants(B) and nuts in it.

2. If you engage in such exceptional(A) / exceptionable(B) behaviour, i will be forced to punish you
3. He has the same capacity as an adult to consent(A) / assent(B) to surgical treatment
4. The minister is obliged(A) / compelled(B) to report regularly to a paramilitary board
5. His analysis of the situation is far too sanguine(A) / genuine(B) .
  • d. abbab
  • c. bbbba
  • b. bbaaa
  • a. bbaba
  • e. babab

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DIRECTIONS for the question: In the following question, a related pair of words is followed by four pairs of words. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
PROLOGUE : PLAY
  • A) gesture : pantomime
  • B) intermezzo : symphony
  • C) overture : opera
  • D) chapter : novel
  • all is well…all is well…

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