Verbal Ability ...

Complete the paragraph given below.

For a player who never much cared for records, it's perhaps apt that Virendra Sehwag has finished his Test career with an average that is marginally short of 50. ____________________. His critics will probably use that fact to highlight his flaws. But, Sehwag himself won't care. Throughout his career, he never played for milestones and yet he racked up some pretty impressive numbers over an international career that lasted more than a decade.

In the sentence, a word is underlined followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and Choose the correct option.

However, if it must decide, then it should do so on the narrowest ground possible.

Select the alternative that will improve the underlined part of the sentence in case there is no improvement select “No improvement”.

In the major cities cost of life is very high.

Fill in the blanks with a, an, or the.

Madhav left in ______ hurry after eating _____ bowl of porridge, and ______ orange.

Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

A. Dr. Prince became aware of a small figure standing in the aisle beside his seat.

B. “Won’t your mother be wondering where you are?” he asked her.

C. He brought his eyes into focus and saw that it was a girl of seven or eight.

D. She was staring at him steadily with large blue eyes.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

I want you to complete this work by two days.

Select the incorrectly spelt word.

Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given words.

A close-fitting cover for a Sword

Select the alternative that will improve the underlined part of the sentence in case there is no improvement select “No improvement”.

It has been raining very hardly since morning.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

Zoya won the first prize in the race unless she stumbled and fell.