English Aptitude Test-1

•  Undulate means to move or go with a smooth up-and-down motion i.e. oscillate.

•  For example: The undulating swing of the coach finally rocked them to sleep.

•  Undulate: move with a smooth wave-like motion.

•  Oscillate: move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm.

•  Hence Undulate and Oscillate are synonyms to each other.

•  Option C has the error.

•  Instead of I will have helped him it should be I would have helped him.

•  Would is a past-tense form of will. If you are writing about past events, you use it to indicate something that was in the future at that point in time, but is not necessarily in the future right now. In other words, you use would to preserve the future aspect when talking about the past.

•  Option C is the part which has the error.

•  The sentence should read: An Indian ship laden with merchandise sank in the Pacific Ocean.

•  Drown is used for people. A person can drown but a thing cannot drown, a thing or an object sinks.

•  When we say something is cutting edge, it means it is in the latest or most advanced stage of its development.

•  For example: What we are planning is cutting-edge technology never seen in Australia before.

•  The idiom 'when pigs fly' means "never."

•  “I might wake up early tomorrow to clean my room”. “Yes, you'll do that when pigs fly”.

•  Part B of the sentence has the error in it.

•  The correct form of the sentence would be: You can get all the information you want in this book.

•  The “that” in the sentence has no use. It isn’t necessary. The sentence without the word “that” gives the complete and correct information.

•  To pass up on an opportunity means to miss it.

•  If you pass up a chance or an opportunity, you do not take advantage of it.

•  The official urged the government not to pass up the opportunity that has now presented itself.

• Speak of the devil or Talk of the devil. Meaning – This expression is used when a person being talked about suddenly appears.

• For example: Speak of the devil! John and I were just talking about you.

•The correct spelling from the given options is irrelevant.

•Irrelevant means something which is not connected to the thing that is being talked about.

•  A good Samaritan is a compassionate person who unselfishly helps others, especially strangers.

•  Its origin comes from the Bible in which a Samaritan man was the only person who stopped to help a man who was robbed and beaten.