Verbal aptitude - 2

Verbal aptitude - 1

Sentence Improvement

• In questions given below, a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option 'D' is the answer.

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



The workers are hell bent at getting what is due to them.

• hell bent on getting

• hell bent for getting

• hell bent upon getting

• No improvement

Open Ended

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Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

When it was feared that the serfs might go too far and gain their freedom from serfdom, the protestant leaders joined the princes at crushing them.

• into crushing

• in crushing

• without crushing

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



If the room had been brighter, I would have been able to read for a while before bed time.

• If the room was brighter.

• If the room are brighter.

• Had the room been brighter.

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

The record for the biggest tiger hunt has not been met since 1911 when Lord Hardinge. then Viceroy of India, shot a tiger than measured 11 feet and 6 inches.

• improved

• broken

• bettered

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



his powerful desire brought about his downfall.

• His intense desire.

• His desire for power.

• His fatal desire.

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

Will you kindly open the knot?

• untie

• break

• loose

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



He sent a word to me that he would be coming late.

• sent word

• had sent a word

• sent words

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



John had told me that he hasn't done it yet.

• told

• tells

• was telling

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



If he had time he will call you.

• would have

• would have had

• has

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

Will you lend me few rupees in this hour of need?

• lend me any rupees

• borrow me a few rupees

• lend me a few rupees

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

During his long discourse, he did not touch that point.

• touch upon

• touch on

• touch of

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

He found a wooden broken chair in the room.

• wooden and broken chair

• broken wooden chair

• broken and wooden chair

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

He could not look anything in the dark room.

• look at

• see

• see through

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement



The greatest thing in style is to have a use of metaphor.

• knowledge

• command

• need

• No improvement

Multiple Choice

Sentence Improvement

While crossing the highway a five year old child was knocked out by a passing car.

• away

• up

• down

• No improvement

Ordering of Sentences

In questions below, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the begining. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room.

P :For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.

Q :On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.

R :While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the 'feel' of this committe.

S :As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.

S6:From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own.

• RSQP

• PQRS

• SQPR

• QSRP

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:A force of exists between everybody in the universe.

P :Normally it is very small but when the one of the bodies is a planet, like earth, the force is considerable.

Q :It has been investigated by many scientists including Galileo and Newton.

R :Everything on or near the surface of the earth is attracted by the mass of earth.

S :This gravitational force depends on the mass of the bodies involved.

S6:The greater the mass, the greater is the earth's force of attraction on it. We can call this force of attraction gravity.

• PRQS

• PRSQ

• QSRP

• QSPR

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:Calcutta unlike other cities kepts its trams.

P :As a result there horrendous congestion.

Q :It was going to be the first in South Asia.

R :They run down the centre of the road

S :To ease in the city decided to build an underground railway line.

S6:The foundation stone was laid in 1972.

• PRSQ

• PSQR

• SQRP,

• RPSQ

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:For some time in his youth Abraham Lincoln was manager for a shop.

P :Then a chance Customer would come.

Q :Young Lincoln way of keeping shop was entirely unlike anyone else's

R :Lincoln would jump up and attend to his needs and then revert to his reading.

S :He used to lie full length on the counter of the shop eagerly reading a book.

S6:Never before had Lincoln had so much time for reading as had then.

• SRQP

• QSPR

• SQRP

• QPSR

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:All the land was covered by the ocean.

P :The leading god fought the monster, killed it and chopped its body in to two halves.

Q :A terrible monster prevented the gods from separating the land from the water.

R :The god made the sky out of the upper part of the body and ornamented it with stars.

S :The god created the earth from the lower part, grew plants on it and populated it with animals.

S6:The god moulded the first people out of clay according to his own image and mind.

• PQRS

• PQSR

• QPSR,

• QPRS,

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:Smoke oozed up between the planks.

P :Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.

Q :The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.

R :Everyone now knew there was fire on board.

S :Flames broke out here and there.

S6:Most people bore the shock bravely.

• QPSR

• SRQP

• RSPQ

• QSRP

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:You know my wife, Madhavi, always urged me to give up smoking.

P :I really gave it up.

Q :And so When I went to jail I said to myself I really must give it up, if for no other reason than of being self-reliant.

R :When I emerged from jail, I wanted to tell her of my great triumph.

S :But when I met her, there she was with a packet of cigarettes.

S6:poor girl!.

• PSRQ

• SPQR

• QPRS

• RSPQ,

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:When a satellite is launched, the rocket begins by going slowly upwards through the air.

P :However, the higher it goes, the less air it meets.

Q :As the rocket goes higher, it travels faster.

R :For the atmosphere becomes thinner.

S :As a result there is less friction.

S6:Consequently, the rocket still does not become too hot.

• QPRS

• QSPR

• PQRS

• PQSR

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:A father having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to slip into a pub for a glass of beer.

P :Indignant at her husband's behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.

Q :She wheeled away the pram.

R :A little later, his wife came by, where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.

S :Leaving the pram outside, he disappeared inside the bar.

S6:She waited for him, anticipating the white face and quivering lips which would soon appear with the news that the baby had been stolen.

• SRPQ

• RQPS

• SPQR

• PQSR

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:The city is almost a slum and stinks most of time.

P :The slush on the road did not deter them.

Q :The occasional slips and falls were considered a small price to pay for the trip.

R :They were excited, fascinated by the sight of fresh snow on the roads.

S :Even so, it looked beautiful to tourists of various categories.

S6:But some visitors came away with the unforgettable sight of young labours scantily clad.

• RQPS

• QPRS

• RSQP

• SPQR

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy.

P :There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of Venice.

Q :In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, no buses.

R :These small islands are near one another.

S :It is not an island but a hundred and seventeen islands.

S6:This is because Venice has no streets.

• PQRS

• PRQS,

• SRPQ

• PQSR,

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:The Hound of Baskervilles was feared by the people of the area.

P :Some people spoke of seeing a huge, shadowy form a Hound at midnight on the moor.

Q :But they spoke of it in tones of horror.

R :Nobody had actually seen the hound.

S :This shadowy form did not reveal any details about the animal.

S6:The Hound of Baskervilles remains an unsolved mystery.

• SPQR

• SPRQ

• PSRQ

• PQRS

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:A gentleman who lived alone always had two plates placed on the table at dinner time.

P :One day just as he sat down to dine, the cat rushed in to the room.

Q :One plate was for himself and other was for his cat.

R :she drooped a mouse into her own plate and another into her master plate.

S :He used to give the cat a piece of meat from his own plate.

S6:In this way the cat showed her gratitude to her master.

• QSPR

• PSRQ

• QRSP

• RPQS

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders.

P :They are usually much quicker than the ant itself.

Q :Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants.

R :Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping.

S :They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails.

S6:Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance.

• SQPR

• SPRQ

• SQRP

• SRQP

Multiple Choice

Ordering of Sentences

S1:Satyajit Ray made several films for children.

P :Later film makers have followed his lead.

Q :Today other nations are making the children's film in a big way.

R :This was at a time when no director considered children as potential audience.

S :Ray was, thus, a pioneer in the field.

S6:But today few think of Ray as a maker of children's films.

• PSRQ

• RSQP

• RSPQ

• SQRP

One Word Substitutes

In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

Extreme old age when a man behaves like a fool

• Imbecility

• Senility

• Dotage

• Superannuation

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

That which cannot be corrected

• Unintelligible

• Indelible

• Illegible

• Incorrigible

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

The study of ancient societies

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• History

• Ethnology

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

A person of good understanding knowledge and reasoning power

• Expert

• Intellectual

• Snob

• Literate

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

A person who insists on something

• Disciplinarian

• Stickler

• Instantaneous

• Boaster

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

State in which the few govern the many

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Plutocracy

• Autocracy

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

A style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge

• Pedantic

• Verbose

• Pompous

• Ornate

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

A style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge

• Pedantic

• Verbose

• Pompous

• Ornate

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

List of the business or subjects to be considered at a meeting

• Plan

• Agenda

• Timetable

• Schedule

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

Leave or remove from a place considered dangerous

• Exterminate

• Evacuate

• Avoid

• Evade

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

A person pretending to be somebody he is not

• Liar

• Rogue

• Imposter

• Magician

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

A person who knows many foreign languages

• Grammarian

• Polyglot

• Linguist

• Bilingual

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

One who has little faith in human sincerity and goodness

• Fatalist

• Stoic

• Cynic

• Egoist

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

One who possesses many talents

• Gifted

• Nubile

• Versatile

• Exceptional

Multiple Choice

One Word Substitutes

Words inscribed on tomb

• Epitome

• Epistle

• Epilogue

• Epitaph