TENSES

1. The many guidelines for the paper ________-(cause) confusion among students.
2. One of the books _____ (be) missing.
3. The main concern of swimmers who like to scuba dive in the islands _________ (be)
predatory fish.
4. None of the protestors ____ (be) arrested.
5. The profit from owning your own car dealership and credit bureau __________
(make) you think twice before investing.
6. Measles _____ (cause) high fever in young children.
7. There _____ (be) always been a reason for doing it this way.
8. The islands ______(be) very busy during the height of the tourist season.
9. The teacher inspite of his problems _____ (inspire) his students
10. Neither my garden nor my flowers ___________ (grow) in may.

Find out the parts of the sentences / sentence which are grammatically incorrect.

1. A) The Lincoln Chronicle is so long and complex.

B) that most writers chooses some single area on which to concentrate
c) So there are books on Lincoln’s depression,
D) on his Christianity, on his career in law, on his assassin.
E) and on his cabinet

1) A 2) A and B 3) D and E 4) Only B 5) Only E

2. A) Either the manager or the workers in this factory is incompetent

B) Incompetence often leads to failure.
C) Failure as well as incompetence are like the measles,
D) which irritate the able and competent people.
E) My boss and mentor tell me to stay away from incompetence.

1) A, C, D and E 2) A and B 3) Only C 4) A, C and E 5) Only E

3. A) Some of the pocket money were used by Rahul,

B) before the remaining went missing.
 C) The discipline committee have ordered a probe in the matter.
D) A thorough search of the suspects belongings was carried out, and the committee
chairman gave a statement in which he said,
E) “Neither Priyanka’s night case nor the other night cases we checked in the dorm has
helped us in our search”.

1) A, B and E 2) A, C and E 3) A, C and D 4) A, B and C 5) None of the above

4. A) He and his friend has arrived.

B) Every boy and girl were ready.
C) Each of his sisters are clever.
D) Many a traveller are missing.
E) Someone have been tilling the land.

1) Only A 2) B and C 3) Ca and D 4) A and D 5) All of the above

5. A) By the death of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a great statesman and patriot were lost by India.
B) Gokhale was one of the founding social and political leader during the Indian
Independence Movement against the British Empire in India.
C) Gokhale, along with other leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Tilak and
Dadabhai Naoroji, were instrumental in the fight for grant of greater political rights to
Indians.
D) Gokhale was not only an astute Politian but also a good orator.
E) A great statesman and educationist that is how most of us remember him.

1) A, B and C 2) Only E 3) D and E 4) A and B 5) B, D and E

6. A) Five miles are too much of a distance for a nature walk.

B) Ten thousand rupees are a good amount for this work.
C) the scissor used by the barber for the murder was recovered by the police.
D) 10 sheeps were grazing on the meadow.
E) 40 years are a good enough age for a man to become the CEO of a company.

1) A, C and E 2) Only B 3) Only C 4) Only D 5) All the above

7. A) The Captain, together with the first commander, was rescued.

B) Slow and steady wins the race.
C) 80 miles is too far to travel.
D) Neither my flowers nor my garden grows in May.
E) A high percentage of people are voting for a secular government.

1) A, B and C 2) A and B 3) C and D 4) A, B, D and E 5) None of the above

8. A) Even others whose notions about mortality differ from Moore’s seem to share his basic
conviction that they can only be intuited, not defined, or explained.
B) every form of idealism, Moore noted rely on the principle expressed by Berkeley in the
Latin phrase, esse est percipi, “to be is to be perceived”.
C) Along with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, epistemology is one of the four main branch of
philosophy and nearly every great philosopher have contributed to it.
D) During Deng’s reign, a series of economic reforms were made.
E) Gene forrester’s difficult journey towards maturity and the adult world are the main focus
of the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles.

1) A and E 2) B, C and D 3) B, C, D and E 4) A, C, D and E 5) All of the above

9. A) Each of the students must log in to the system using their ID and password.
B) If I was you, I wouldn’t have gone there and done that.
C) Politics are an issue in R. K. Narayan’s Malgudi Days.
D) None of the information is particularly useful to me.
E) The English plays more foot ball than Americans do.

1) A, B, C and E 2) A, B and E 3) B, D and E 4) Only D 5) B and C

10. A) The student council were unanimous in requesting for leniency for the firecracker prank.
B) Majority believe that the country can progress.
C) The number of residents who have been residing in Sarita Vihar are quite small.
D) What he believes in and what he practices is two different things.
E) His means were much reduced owing to that heavy loss.

1) A, B and C 2) A, C and D 3) Only E 4) A, B, C and D 5) All of the above