Directions: In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
(1) The SEBI committee has suggested that the companies should be rated based on the parameters of generating wealth, maintenance and sharing as well as on corporate governance.
(2) The SEBI committee has suggested that the companies should be rated based on the parameters of wealth generation, maintenance and sharing as well as on corporate governance.
(3) The SEBI committee has suggested that the companies based on the parameters of wealth generation, maintenance and sharing as well as on corporate governance should be rated.
(4) The SEBI committee has suggested that the rate of the companies should be based on the parameters of wealth generation, maintenance and sharing as well as on corporate governance.
Explanation: Generating wealth is choice (1) is wrong. It should be wealth– generation. Choice (2) is correct. Companies are not based on parameters. So, sentence 3 is wrong. Rate of the companies is in appropriate.
Directions: In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
Explanation: Choice 1 is the correct sentence. In statement 'B'_______ "Sachin has been seeking _______" is incorrect because when the remaining sentence is in simple present tense, the present continuous tense cannot be used.
The word "entirely" (adverb) should be placed after "sends out" i.e. (the verb), it must lay an emphasis on the verb. In statements 'C' and 'D' ____ "revulsion in" _____ is the error. Revulsion means (a strong feeling of disgust). If does not take the preposition 'in'. Again the adverb "entirely" is wrongly placed. (The adverb must be placed before the word it modifies). Hence 'C' and 'D' are ruled out.
Directions: In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
Explanation: Statement 'A' is wrong because, developmental (means incidental to growth, evolutionary) "developmental successes" is not appropriate.
Again the usage of "economical" is erroneous because economical means – (sparing in the use of resources or money) which is not appropriate to the context.
Hence statement 'A' is wrong. In statement 'B' the ordering of words, 'to the extent that they were considered at all in recent years" is inappropriate. According to the context in the sentence the western economic ideas were not considered to a great extent i.e., it should be placed after "western economic ideas", not before it.
Statement 'D' is also erroneous due to the wrong structure.
Directions: In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
Explanation: Choice 2 is correct, in statement 'A' the usage "have to be necessarily aware of ____" is erroneous. The right structure is "have necessarily to be ____" which
is found in B, C and D. In statement 'D' the structure is wrong. If the position of the words
"to the extent that they were considered at all" is after "_______ policy makers", it conveys the meaning that the policy makers are not considered at all, which changes the meaning completely.
Directions: In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
Explanation: In the context of the sentence "sputters" means to face a difficulty.
In statements C and D the word "splits" does not convey the appropriate meaning.
In statements 'A' and 'D' "for the survival of hardship________" conveys the meaning that the difficulties must survive which is erroneous. Hence A, C and D are ruled out.