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Verbalability topics

Sentence Correction (16)Spelling (11)Subject Verb Agreement (11)Synonyms (11)Antonyms (10)Error Spotting (10)Idioms (9)One-Word Substitution (9)Idioms and Phrases (7)Vocabulary (7)Verbal Reasoning (6)Articles (3)Critical Reasoning (3)Grammar (3)Prepositions (3)Verbal Ability (3)Critical Reasoning Inference (2)Direct Indirect Speech (2)Quantifiers (2)Reading Comprehension (2)Tenses (2)VARC — Mixed (2)Voice (2)Parajumbles (1)Phrasereplacement (1)Punctuation (1)

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A company's cost per unit rose while its selling price per unit stayed the same. It follows that the profit per unit:Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the grammatically correct sentence:Read the answer and worked solution →Select the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement:Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the version with correct parallel structure:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A company's cost per unit rose while its selling price per unit stayed the same. It follows that the profit per unit:

  1. increased
  2. decreased
  3. became zero
  4. stayed the same
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Correct answer: B. decreased

Unchanged price with higher unit cost necessarily lowers profit per unit.

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Choose the grammatically correct sentence:

  1. Each of the students has submitted the assignment.
  2. Each of the students have submitted the assignment.
  3. Each of the students were submitting the assignment.
  4. Each of the student have submitted the assignment.
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Correct answer: A. Each of the students has submitted the assignment.

'Each' is singular, so it takes 'has submitted'.

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Select the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement:

  1. The list of approved items are on the desk.
  2. The list of approved items is on the desk.
  3. The list of approved items have been on the desk.
  4. The list of approved items were on the desk.
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Correct answer: B. The list of approved items is on the desk.

The subject is 'list' (singular) the prepositional phrase 'of approved items' doesn't change agreement, so 'is'.

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