PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

PHRASE/WORDS REPLACEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-11 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the following questions, a sentence has been given with some of its parts in bold. To make the sentence grammatically correct, you have to replace the bold part with the correct alternative given below. If the sentence is correct as it is, give (5) as your answer (i.e., No correction required).

 

 

Question No : 1

A freezing morning accompanied by a dense cover of boy set the toning for the coming weekend.

(1)  Keeping tone

(2) Started the toning

(3) Kept the tone

(4) Set the tone

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

The jail is in the news again with the finding of a postal and some bullets.

(1) To finding

(2) With find

(3) Finding

(4) On found

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

The space-crunched city throws up several stories of struggle that school have had put up with to win playground for their students.

(1) Have had to put up

(2) Had put up to

(3) Have had to put up with

(4) Had to put up to

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

Emotions was high as both families were taken to the police station last night

(1) Emotions went higher

(2) Emotion become high

(3) Emotionally high

(4) Emotions ran high

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

Work at all the court complexes was paralysed as lawyers went on a day-long strike as a mark of protest.

(1) For a one day strike

(2) For a strike

(3) On a day’s long strike

(4) On a day-long striking

(5) No correction required