If you hate cleaning fish yourselves why “don’t you clean” at the fishmonger’s? A. are you getting them clean B. don’t you get it clean C. don’t you get them cleaned D. have not you cleaned them E. No correction is required
Answer: Option C
‘You don’t like cleaning the fish. You have to get them cleaned’. When you present it in the form of a question it has to be ‘why don’t you get them cleaned by someone else?’
The management gave an ID card to “all of the employees“. A. all the employees B. all of employees C. all the employee D. all employees E. No correction is required
Answer: Option A
When a noun is non-specific, (i.e) all the employees – no one specific – then ‘of’ is not used after ‘all’. ‘Of’ is used when ‘all’ is used to denote a specific group. (i.e) all of my students …
The department authorities were unwilling to impart information and were “refused to either confirm or to deny” the charges. A. refused either to confirm or to deny B. refusing either to confirm or deny C. refusing to either confirm or to deny D. refusing to either confirm or deny E. No correction is required
Answer: Option D
The verb ‘were’ in past tense, makes it imperative that we use (i.e) ‘were refusing’ to make it grammatically correct. When the correlative conjunction ‘either … or’ is used, the words that are linked by the conjunctions must be similar. ‘… either confirm or deny’.
I accepted his advice of booking the tickets in advance for the vacation and “did it” immediately. A. did that B. did so C. do it D. do that E. No correction is required
Answer: Option B
When was refer back to an action, that has just been mentioned we use ‘did so’ and not ‘did it / that’
There is no doubt “whether he will be” punished for his wrongdoings. A. that he will be B. whether he would be C. whether he is D. that he has E. No correction is required
Answer: Option A
The phrases ‘no doubt’ ‘little doubt’, ‘any doubt’ are generally followed by ‘that’ clause. The use of ‘whether’ is incorrect.
“My parents both” are doctors. A. My either parents B. Either of my parents C. My parents either D. Both my parents E. No correction is required
Answer: Option D
The use of the word ‘both’ after ‘parents’ is incorrect. It has to be placed before ‘my’. ‘Both my parents are doctors’ conveys the correct meaning. ‘Both anywhere else would render the sentence incomplete.
According to me, ‘Leisure’ is “one of the best poem” written by ‘W.H. Davis A. one among the best poems B. one of the best poems C. one in many of the poem. D. the best of the poem E. No correction is required
Answer: Option B
This poem is ‘one of the many’. Hence the plural of poem (i.e) ‘poems’ must be used.
He called the fire service when “he has seen the house” on fire. A. he will see the house B. the house has been seen C. he saw the house D. the house is seen E. No correction is required
Answer: Option CThe first part of the sentence, the main clause, is in past tense as ‘called’ is used. Hence what follows in the subordinate clause should also be in past tense. ‘has seen’ is in the present perfect and hence is wrong. ‘Saw’ is the contact usage.
Real courage and “the most complete diligence in his work” are the reasons for his success. A. his complete diligence on work B. the most complete diligence in work C. his complete diligence on his work D. complete diligence in his work E. No correction is required
Answer: Option D
The adjective ‘complete’ does not take the comparative degree or the superlative degree. Hence the use of ‘most’ is inappropriate.
He went to his native village taking “two day’s leave“. A. two day’s leave B. two day leaves C. two days leave D. two leave days E. No correction is required
Answer: Option A
He has taken ‘leave for two days’. Hence it becomes ‘two days’ ‘leave’ where’s after the apostrophe need not be used.
