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Attracted by the rich pickings, expensive private schools are blooming all over the place.

Blooming all over the place.

Sprouting shoots over the horizon.

Fast dotting the landscape.

Mushrooming across the country.

Hawking asks us to accept that one distinct possibility of the future of the universe is that it will return to its beginning - ten million years back.

To its fetal position.

Ten million years back.

A cycle of truly cosmic proportions

To pre-life ear.

Victory is everything in the Indian universe and Tendulkar will be expected to translate his genius in batting into the captaincy. To contemplate other options is to contemplate the risk of failure.

To contemplate other options is to contemplate the risk of failure.

Failure is not an option.

All other options have the potential for failure.

Unrealistic options invite the threat of failure.

His mother made great sacrifices to educate him, moving house or three occasions, and severing the thread on her loom's shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lesson to make him understand the need to persevere.

severing the thread on the loom's shuttle whenever Mencium neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.

severed the thread on her loom's shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.

severed the thread on her loom's shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need for preserving.

severing the thread on her loom's shuttle whenever Mencius' neglected his lessons, to make them understand the need to persevere.

If I won a crore in ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ I would have probably bought a yacht.

would have probably bought

would buy probably

would probably buy

will probably buy

The judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible on the grounds that it was not___to the issue at hand

useful

germane

manifest

inchoate

I think Mukesh had something very useful to say however, he was unable to communicate his viewpoint to skeptical audience.

He did not change the minds of a knowledgeable public.

The people were willing to accept his views.

He failed to convince a suspicious congregation

He could not convince the doubting audience.

Dieters who regain weight usually think flattening their fummies means giving up all their favourite fattening foods. In fact most diet winners still eat doughnuts and pizza but they do so with equanimity.

but they do so soberly.

but in moderation.

but they do so with a sense of judiciousness.

but they do so with equanimity.

Since the advent of cable television, at the beginning of this decade, the entertainment industry took a giant stride forward in our country.

this decade saw the entertainment industry 'taking

this decade, the entertainment industry has taken

this decade, the entertainment industry had taken

this decade, the entertainment industry took

It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive

It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater

Someday, it may be worthwhile to try and recover uranium from seawater

Trying to recover uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile

To try for the recovery of uranium out of seawater may someday be worthwhile

Recovering uranium from seawater may be worthwhile to try to do someday

Find the wrongly spelt word in the below

Preposterous

Disasterous

Murderous

Onerous

A———of guides surrounded me, all offering their services to ———me around the temple.

Flock; tour

gaggle; escort

Bundle; guide

multitude; chase

Huddle; follow

At the rate at which India’s population is growing, it is destined to be on collision course

Destined to be

Bound to be

Meant to be

Intended to be

To child died from jaundice.

with

no improvement

Trisha could not solve the problem at all and was at her wit’s ending.

her wit’s end

the wit ends

her witty end

the wit end

No correction required

This government may promise autonomy to the navaratnas but there is no telling what the subsequent one will do.

There is no telling what the future will do.

There is no telling what the subsequent one will do.

It is not clear whether its successors will do the same.

Nobody can be sure that subsequent governments will adhere to that policy.

A. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is that it is not always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price. B. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not that it is always a bad thing, it is the monopolist who has the power to deide who is charged what price. C. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not that it is always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price. D. The main problem with the notion of price discrimination is not it is always a bad thing, but that it is the monopolist who has the power to decide who is charged what price.

Bacon believes that the medical profession should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a new days and at the cost of great pain:

be delayed for a few days

be delayed for a few days and

be otherwise only delayed for a few days and

otherwise only delay for a few days and

The MP rose up to say that, in her opinion, she thought the Women's Reservation Bill should be passed on unanimously.

rose to say that she thought the Women's Reservation Bill should be passed

rose up to say that, the Women's Reservation Bill should be passed on

rose to say that, in her opinion, she thought that the Women's Reservation Bill should be passed.

rose to say that, in her opinion, the Women's Reservation Bill should be passed on

I have bought this house in 1970 for Rs.Two lakhs.

had bought

bought

have been bought

no improvement

If you are on a three-month software design project and in two weeks you've put together a programme that solves Part of the problem, show it to your boss without delay.

and, you've put together a programme that solves part of the problem in two weeks

and, two weeks, you have put together a programme that solves part of the problem

and, you've put together a programme that has solved part of the problem in two weeks

and, in two weeks you put together a programme that solved only part of the problem

hubris sauves demure weird

hubris

sauves

demure

weird

Then he ———–my hand and kissed it repeatedly found it all immensely —————.

Held; quavering

grabbed; embarrassing

Caught; inspiring

gobbled; sophisticated

Swayed; annoying

The underlying physica1 principles that control the midair gyrations of divers and gymnasts are the same as the body orientation controlling astronauts in a weightless environment

as the body orientation controlling

as the body orientation which controls

as those controlling the body orientation of

ones to control the body orientation of

ones used in controlling the body orientation of

Drawing inferences from real life can be quite erogenous.

Be quite erroneous.

Be quite erogenous.

Inevitably be erroneous.

Be errorful.

In the first half of the twentieth century intellectual generally assumed that economic and sociological modernization was leading to the decay of religion as a determinant in human existence

Decay of religion as a determinant.

Withering away of religion as the significant element.

Humanization of religion as a determinant.

Debasement of religion as an important issue.

The article is a continuation of the series on mew projects under planning and implementation in India

Series of new projects under planning and implementation in India.

Series on new projects under planning and implementation in India.

Series of articles published on new projects under planning and implementation in India.

Article on new project under planning and implementation in India.

Whatever be the experience of the other funds, the Unit Trust of India decision will put pressure on them to convert their closed schemes into open ones. Investors must evaluate future offerings from the other funds on that basis.

must evaluate future offerings from the other funds on that basis.

should hereafter gauge such offerings keeping such rationale in mind.

reckon with such offerings upon such expectations.

ought to carefully scan potential offerings on that logic.

It was us who had left before he arrived.

we who had left before time he had arrived.

us who had went before he arrived.

us who had went before had arrived.

we who had left before he arrived.

Rahul Bajaj did a great job by taking his company to a dominant position but it is time he let go of the reins.

But it is time he let go of the reins

However it is time that he stepped down.

It is perhaps an opportune moment to quit.

But it is just as well that he calls it a day.

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English - Errors In Usage Test

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