Verbal Ability Test - 4

In the above-given sentence, 'monotonous' will be used.

It is so because 'monotonous' is an adjective meaning dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest or (of a sound or utterance) lacking in variation in tone or pitch.

The sentence tells the fact that the sound lacked variation in tone and pitch and therefore Sanjay found it monotonous.

Complete Sentence:

Sanjay found the unchanging rhythm of the musical piece to be annoyingly monotonous.

Hence, the correct option is (C).

Refined oil is a kind of oil that has been purified.

'Cleared', 'improved', and 'washed' have meanings related to the word 'refined', but they are not appropriate in the given context.

Complete Sentence:

Generally, people use refined oils for their cooking.

Hence, the correct option is (B).

The correct sentence will be: "Prema is the girl in my class who writes beautiful poems."

• Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses. The most common relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, that. The relative pronoun we use depends on what we are referring to and the type of relative clause.

• We use who in relative clauses to refer to people, and sometimes to pet animals. We use it to introduce defining and non-defining relative clauses.

Here, the speaker is referring to a third person i.e., Prerna, so we will use 'writes' instead of 'write'.

'Writes' is used with third person singular nouns.

Hence, the correct option is (B).

The correct sentence will be- ''Rahul was ready "to" accept any job, even a part-time one.''

Option (D) should use 'to' instead of 'for'.

In option (A) 'was' is correct as the sentence is in the past tense.

In option (B) the article 'a' is correct as it is used with indefinite things.

Option (C) is also grammatically meaningful.

'To' is used to indicate the relation between the person and the job.

'For' is used to indicate a purpose.

Hence, the correct option is (D).

The correct sentence would be:

My father never did have an opportunity to go to a University.

In the above-given sentence, the error is related to adverb placement.

An adverb must come before the auxiliary verb in a sentence.

For Example: I never was a fan of hers.

​The structure of the sentence is incorrect.

Thus, 'did never' will be replaced by 'never did'.

Hence, the correct option is (D).

'Demand is largely unchanged in Australia and has declined about 5% in the US overall, relative to the baseline.' is the correct answer.

• Option B talks about a change which is out of context.

• Option C talks about before pandemic scenes which are not being talked about in the paragraph.

• Option D is completely out of context.

• Option A talked about electricity consumption data from the US and Australia. This is in continuation of the penultimate sentence which talks about similar data from other countries.

The complete paragraph- We’ve assessed how social distancing restrictions have affected both demands for electricity and “mobility” (the movement of people) in Australia, New Zealand, the US and the UK. Interestingly, changes in electricity demand and mobility go together and were significantly different across the countries after strict stay-at-home rules were imposed in late March. Grid-based electricity demand in both the UK and New Zealand has declined significantly (20% and 15% respectively). Demand is largely unchanged in Australia and has declined about 5% in the US overall, relative to the baseline.

Hence, the correct option is (A).

According to grammar, The verbs advise, allow forbid and permit are followed by a gerund when they have no object but when they have the object we have to use an infinitive.

The concept behind it is- the verbs given are transitive verbs hence after these verbs we have to write an object the object can only be a noun/pronoun/gerund. Whenever we don't have an object after these verbs then, write a gerund to make an object, and whenever an object is written write an infinitive, and the verb, which is written with the preposition 'to' i.e. 'to + v1', is written for the object of the main verb.

Correct sentence: The doctor advised him to take a course of antibiotics.

Hence, the correct option is (A).

According to grammar, "wish/if only + would + V1 "usually expresses a desire for someone to change their deliberate behavior in the present or future.

'Only if' used for condition whereas 'If only' used for the wish/imaginary statement.

In the given sentence, 'if only' should be used because in the other part sentence we can say that the sentence is the imaginary one.

Correct sentence: If only the sun would come out so we could get on with the filming.

Hence, the correct option is (C).

Option A is correct as in the last line the writer talks about finding happiness. In the article, he also talks about acquiring everything and still not being happy and so happiness is a state of mind and is absolutely free is the most logical ending of the passage.

The complete paragraph- What is the meaning and purpose of life?” is probably one of the most important questions that philosophers across the globe have been trying to answers for thousands of years. If you are trying to seek happiness by buying faster cars, bigger houses, fancier phones or trendier clothes, you might never attain happiness as there is no end to this list. Even if you acquire everything you can own on this planet, the next thing you might want is the next planet, and then the next galaxy and so on and so forth. Yet you may not be able to find happiness, fulfilment and peace of mind. Happiness is a state of mind and is absolutely free.

Hence, the correct option is (A).

The context says something about the savings of Indians for the retirement age and the comparison of Indians with respect to the global scenario in terms of savings for life after the retirement.

hence the correct option is (B)