Exams

The modal ‘Could’ is used to express possibility. It is simply used to state one or more things that are possible or were possible in the past. In this statement, ‘to have achieved’ needs to be replaced with ‘for achieving’ to make the sentence correct. Thus, the correct sentence would be, ‘When I finished writing the letter, I could not help admiring myself for achieving the impossible’.

Since both the premises are universal and one premise is negative, the conclusion must be universal negative. Also, the conclusion should not contain the middle term. So, 1 follows.

However, 2 is the converse of the second premise and thus it also holds.

The next number in the series is

143 143 136 110

      0    7      26 (Differences)

 $$\begin{gathered} 13 - 1 , 23 - 1, 33 - 1, 43 - 1,... \\ Now the next number is given by \\ 110 - (43 - 1) = 110 - 63 = 47. \end{gathered}$$