Directions: In each of the following sentence a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Explanation: 'More deadlier' is wrong because two comparatives are not used together (rules out the choice ). Choice with 'effective' can be used for a medicine not a disease virus is wrong. the other choice (deadlier than twice that of ) is clearly and totally wrong.
Directions: In each of the following sentence a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Explanation: The subject in the Subordinate clause is ‘the stature of music’. The stature of music must be such that it liberates one .... not them (we are talking in general about any one not any specific group – them) further the sentence is in the active voice and so should continue in the same , 'one is liberated from the birth-death-incarnation cycle' it is passive hence wrong
Directions: In each of the following sentence a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Explanation: The structure used here is not....but....And choice ( not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent) conforms to this. The other sentences do not make complete sense
Directions: In each of the following sentence a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Explanation: The courts are coming in the way of ....what? The nation (doing something). Choice (the nation realizing the cherished goals of egalitarianism)fits this structure. In choice(to realize the nation’s cherished goals of egalitarianism) we have two prepositions coming together (of and to).
Choice (the realization of the nation’s cherished goals of egalitarianism) suddenly becomes passive, In choice (nation's) the possessive (apostrophe s) is used wrongly.
Directions: In each of the following sentence a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Explanation: We are comparing Sachin’s way with Bradman's. Hence in the second part of the sentence the apostrophe s must be used. Between other choices we have 'the' – where the definite article is wrongly used.