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Which sentence is in PASSIVE voice?Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the word closest in meaning to 'apprehension' as used in: 'The author had a deep apprehension of water.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes the sentence: 'The rule was so difficult that Franz could not ___ it even after several readings.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes the sentence: 'Despite the chaos in the streets, the classroom remained ___ silent.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes the sentence: 'The realisation came too late; Franz ___ that he had wasted his opportunities.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'M. Hamel had been the village's French teacher ___ forty years.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: '___ he had paid more attention earlier, Franz would not be regretting now.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'M. Hamel's love for the French language ___ in every word he spoke that morning.'Read the answer and worked solution →Identify the error: 'Each of the students / have been / asked to write / a short essay.'Read the answer and worked solution →Identify the correctly punctuated sentence.Read the answer and worked solution →Identify the part of speech of 'tempting' in: 'It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct form of the verb: 'Neither the teacher nor the students ___ aware of the order from Berlin until that morning.'Read the answer and worked solution →The one-word substitute for 'a person who teaches by talking informally rather than by giving formal lessons' isRead the answer and worked solution →The idiom 'to swallow one's pride' meansRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'The ragpickers have lived in Seemapuri for over thirty years ___ permits.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'For a child, finding a silver coin in garbage means hope; ___ for an adult it is daily bread.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'Saheb ___ a tea stall for Rs 800 a month and all his meals.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'The ragpickers came to Delhi ___ a better life.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the option that BEST completes: 'The children appear like morning birds and ___ at noon.'Read the answer and worked solution →Spot the error: 'One of the boys / are wearing / shoes that do not match.'Read the answer and worked solution →Spot the error: 'The author have / been observing / the ragpickers / for several months.'Read the answer and worked solution →Spot the error: 'Neither Saheb nor his friends / has any shoes / that fit them well.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the BEST rewrite of: 'Despite of his hard work, Saheb earns very less.'Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct active-to-passive transformation of: 'Saheb carries the steel canister.'Read the answer and worked solution →'A person who picks up rags or other waste for a living' is best described by the one wordRead the answer and worked solution →'Perpetual' in 'perpetual state of poverty' MOST nearly meansRead the answer and worked solution →The idiom 'roof over one's head' refers toRead the answer and worked solution →The expression 'slog through the day' MOST nearly meansRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'ABUNDANT'.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the word MOST similar in meaning to 'CANDID'.Read the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

Which sentence is in PASSIVE voice?

  1. I was thrown into the deep end by the boy.
  2. The boy is throwing me into the deep end.
  3. The boy will throw me into the deep end.
  4. The boy threw me into the deep end.
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Correct answer: A. I was thrown into the deep end by the boy.

Passive voice has the object of the active verb as the subject + 'be' + past participle. 'I was thrown by the boy' inverts agent and patient. The others are active.

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Pick the word closest in meaning to 'apprehension' as used in: 'The author had a deep apprehension of water.'

  1. Confidence
  2. Disregard
  3. Anxiety or fear
  4. Curiosity
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Correct answer: C. Anxiety or fear

Apprehension here = a feeling of unease or fear about something bad happening. Confidence and disregard are opposites; curiosity is unrelated.

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Choose the option that BEST completes the sentence: 'The rule was so difficult that Franz could not ___ it even after several readings.'

  1. Touch
  2. Grasp
  3. Catch
  4. Hold
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Correct answer: B. Grasp

'Grasp' = understand fully. 'Catch' fits for short utterances (catch a phrase), 'hold' is physical possession, 'touch' is literal. 'Grasp a rule' is the collocational fit.

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Unit 2: Reasoning and Structure of ArgumentUnit 6: Syntax and Sentence StructureUnit 7E: Parts of Speech and Grammatical ConventionsUnit 7A: Sentence Boundaries and Structural ImprovementUnit 7B: Verb Tense Consistency and Agreement RulesUnit 7C: Modifiers, Clauses and Sentence TransformationUnit 7D: Determiners, Articles and Prepositional UsageUnit 1B: Evidence and Argument Structure in Nonfiction