General Test - 1

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

It is so because it is a reverse-order sentence. The subject of the sentence is a specialty, which is singular and therefore the verb should also be singular.

Complete Sentence:

Making pies and cakes is Mr. Kumar's specialty.

The most appropriate reflexive pronoun for the given sentence is 'myself'. Its reflexive pronoun is 'myself'.

Correct Sentence: I am teaching myself how to play the piano.

A fugitive is a person who has escaped from capacity or law.

The phrase "usually, no one gives a job to someone who runs away from the law" is a general statement that suggests that people who have a history of evading the law are often not hired for employment. The reasoning behind this is that employers generally prefer to hire individuals who have a clean criminal record and are seen as responsible and trustworthy.

Devil's advocate describes the given phrase, Devil's advocate is one who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments.

The idiom "feeling under the weather" is a common way of saying that someone is feeling ill or not feeling well. This phrase is often used to describe minor illnesses, such as colds or flu-like symptoms, rather than serious illnesses. 

The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.

• Here, 'an order seeking immediate' should be used instead of 'a order seeking immediate'.

• The article ‘an’ should be used before singular, countable nouns which begin with vowel sounds.

• In the given sentence, ‘order’ is preceded by ‘a’ which is erroneous.

• Here, 'an' should be used instead.

The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.

• Here, 'is quite different' should be used instead of 'are quite different'.
• ‘Behaviour’ is a singular noun, hence, the verb must also be singular to maintain the subject-verb agreement. Therefore, ‘are’ must be replaced with ‘is’ to form a grammatically correct sentence.

The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.

• Here, 'The government needs to adopt' should be used instead of 'The government need to adopt'.
• ‘Government’ is followed by a singular verb.
• Hence, ‘need’ must be replaced with ‘needs’ to form a grammatically correct sentence. 

Committee is the correctly spelled word here.

Committee means a group of people appointed for a specific function by a larger group and typically consisting of members of that group.

In a sentence: Each committee member was given a different task to complete for the upcoming Relay for Life Event.

While arranging the parts of the passage given in the options, we have to find some grammatical or contextual connections between them, so let’s find out.  

The opener will be Q as it introduces the context of the paragraph.

After this, P will come as it is completing the sentence Q.

SR is a pair as the word via is followed by liberalization and provides a complete meaning.

Correct sentence: India achieved remarkable economic development in the years following the landmark reforms inaugurated via liberalization in the year 1991.

While arranging the parts of the passage given in the options, we have to find some grammatical or contextual connections between them, so let’s find out.  

The opener will be Q as it introduces the context of the paragraph.

PR is a pair as the word victory is followed by against and provides a complete meaning.

Correct sentence: In the arena of sport, perhaps the greatest moment in Indian Olympic history was the victory secured by the women's hockey team against Australia in the Tokyo Olympics.

While arranging the parts of the passage given in the options, we have to find some grammatical or contextual connections between them, so let’s find out.  

The opener will be S as it introduces the context of the paragraph.

P follows S because it's adding some more information.

R follows P because it's having a relative clause adding R and P.

Q is providing a conclusion to the context.

Correct sentence: Economic progress is determined in terms of GDP and GNP, which are the two major determinants for gauging the success of a nation.

While arranging the parts of the passage given in the options, we have to find some grammatical or contextual connections between them, so let’s find out.  

The opener will be R as it introduces the context of the paragraph.

P follows R because it's adding some more information.

Q follows S because it's having a relative clause adding S and Q.

Q is providing a conclusion to the context.

Correct sentence: They can twist and shake their wobbly heads with the aplomb of a stage artist, mesmerizing the gullible into believing that they are not men of straw.

While arranging the parts of the passage given in the options, we have to find some grammatical or contextual connections between them, so let’s find out.  

The opener will be R as it introduces the context of the paragraph.

P follows R because it's adding some more information.

Q follows P because of the presence of 'and.'

S is providing a conclusion to the context.

Correct sentence: On the one hand there is the immense beauty of its rain-soaked verdure and on the other there are the artifacts of its visible modernity.

The correct sentence is- Prabhu said, "I am not going to college".

Given is a declarative sentence in Indirect speech, we need to change it to Direct Speech.

It is in the past continuous tense, which would undergo a backshift and get changed to present continuous tense.

The indirect speech form of a past continuous tense is --(Subject +was/were+V1 +ing+ Object)

It needs to change to present continuous tense.  in the direct speech-- (Subject +is/am/are+V1 +ing+ Object)

The 3rd person pronoun 'he'  will change to 1st person 'I'.