Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension Test - 5

whether you like it or not is the correct answer.

'Likes' is used with the third person singular noun like he or she.

With the second person pronoun, we use the base form of the verb i.e., like. 

The subject of the sentence 'our cook' is a singular subject.

• So, it will take a singular verb i.e., puts.
• 'Puts' is used with third person singular noun.
• So, it is correctly used.

'Many' is used with countable nouns and 'much' is used with uncountable nouns.

For Examples:

• How much petrol is in the car?
• How many people were at the meeting?
• Here 'salt' is uncountable, so we will use 'much'.

Therefore, the correct sentence is "Our cook puts too much salt in the food".

The correct sentence is: "Riya went into the shop because it had a sale."

The error lies in 'it has sale'.

• The sentence is in the past tense. The action has already happened.
• The word 'went' indicates that the sentence is in past tense and past tense form of 'has' is 'had'.
• Article 'a' is used before indefinite things.

The correct sentence is: "The box of paper clips "is" kept in the drawer."

Here, the box of clips is referred to as a single thing so we will use 'is' instead of 'are'.

We are referring to a specific box, so the use of 'the' before box is correct.

'Of' is used to define a relation.

'In' is used to define the location.

The correct sentence will be: ''Each student will have to carry his own lunch to the picnic.''

In option (C), the preposition 'on' is incorrect and should be replaced with 'to' as 'to' is used to refer to a destination which is the picnic.

In option (A), 'each' is correct as it refers to each and every student.

In option (B), the pronoun 'his' is appropriately placed.

In option (D), 'will' is correct as it refers to an action in the future.

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.

Correct sentence- "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.

These two statements share a relationship of cause and effect since we are talking about the reason of going to sleep without having dinner also. The reason is that I was very tired for spending the whole day at the hospital.

Among the given options, so can only be used in the given context to imply the cause and effect relationship. Other connectors will not connect these two statements since they do not imply the cause and effect relationship.

The complete sentence would be:

I was very tired and exhausted after spending the whole day at the hospital so I went to sleep without having dinner after coming back.

The first statement is regarding something that has already been said but still somebody did it, as is explained in the second statement.

Among the given options, yet is the correct choice since it is used to imply that despite something whereas if is mainly used in a conditional clause. All the other three connectors given are used to indicate some cause and effect relationship. Hence they can be eliminated as the given statements do not share the cause and effect relationship.

The connected statement would be:

The teacher has asked the students not to copy from others during the examination, yet the students kept on copying during the final examination resulting in the expulsion of two of the them from the university.

The first statement is regarding the issue faced by the person whereas the second statement is regarding the activity on the part of the person despite the problems faced by him or her. Among the given connectors, only B can connect these two statements since it implies ‘in spite of something’. Other connectors are out of context in case of these two statements.

Since is mainly used to indicate the cause-effect relationship whereas on the other hand is used in order to imply something contrasting to what has been said already. By comparison is also not correct for the given context.

The complete statement would be: I was not in a situation to step out of the house yesterday because of my severe headache nevertheless I attended the sales meeting at my office on the instructions of my senior management.