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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Excessively lengthy speech

A) Concision B) Verbiage
C) Curt D) Succinct
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Verbiage

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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

Make both ends meet

A) Live within means B) Achieve a solution
C) Live among people D) End of the road
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Live within means

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

Vinod said to me, "Has your brother returned from Dubai?"

A) Vinod said to me if my brother has returned from Dubai. B) Vinod asked me if my brother had returned from Dubai.
C) Vinod enquire to me if my brother had returned from Dubai. D) Vinod asks me whether my brother had returned from Dubai.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Vinod asked me if my brother had returned from Dubai.

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A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

 

He said to me, “I have often told you not to play in dark.”

 

A) He said to him that he shouldn’t play in dark. B) He reminded me that he had often told me not to play in dark.
C) He asked him to not play in dark. D) He asked me that he had told me to not play in dark.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) He reminded me that he had often told me not to play in dark.

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

They told me that they had been befooled by those men.

 

A) They said to me,"We were befooled by these men." B) They said to me,"They had befooled us."
C) They said to me,"We have been befooled by these men." D) They said to me,"We are befooled by these men."
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) They said to me,"We have been befooled by these men."

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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 


In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

 


Abstract' in the passage means

 

A) a summary B) not paying attention
C) concrete D) not having a physical reality
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) not having a physical reality

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In the following question, sentence given with blank is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

 

He succeeded in proving his point with ______________ logic.

A) diabolical B) irrefutable
C) rational D) analytical
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) irrefutable

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

One who perpetually hesitates(A)/which of the two things he will do first(B)/will ultimately do neither.(C)No error(D)

 

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) D

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