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Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech.
He questioned whether they had really complied with the revised safety protocols.

Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech.
He said that he had been waiting there for his boss for over an hour.

Given below are six sentences taken from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are numbered S1 and S2 and are placed in the first and last positions respectively and are fixed in their positions. The other four sentences between the first and last sentences are jumbled up and are numbered A, B, C, and D. Rearrange the jumbled sentences in a logical sequence keeping the unity and coherence of the paragraph intact. Choose the correct alternative that best describes the sequence.

S1 Then, one day, she was up, playing; Isabel was in the kitchen fixing lunch for the two boys when they'd come in from school, and she heard Grace fall down in the living room.
A. And she ran to the living room and there was little Grace on the floor, all twisted up, and the reason she hadn't screamed was that she couldn't get her breath.
B. When you have a lot of children you don't always start running when one of them falls, unless they start screaming or something.
C. Yet, Isabel says that when she heard that thump and then that silence, something happened in her to make her afraid.
D. And, this time, Grace was quiet.
S2 And when she did scream, it was the worst sound, Isabel says, that she'd ever heard in all her life, and she still hears it sometimes in her dreams.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
Who tampered with the records?

Which of the following pairs of homonyms can be used to fill in the blanks most suitably?
The new medication did not _____ the patient's symptoms as expected, so the doctor questioned its overall _____.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Hoist with one's own petard

Choose the correct meaning of the idiom: Straight from the horse's mouth

Convert the following direct speech sentence into indirect speech by selecting the correct option.
The Minister of State said, "The government has resolved the farmers' issues amicably."

Rearrange the following sentence parts to form a meaningful and grammatically correct paragraph:

P. He created mockups of each screen the user would view in order to build the user interface.
Q. He programmed the app's features and response, writing the fundamental logic.
R. He fixed errors and made sure the app ran well by testing it on a variety of devices.
S. He made the finished product available for download by uploading it to the app store.

Choose the option that has an error in the sentence.
When asked why students had enrolled in the geometry class, 85% of them saw it as essentials.

The following sentence has been divided into four segments. Select the segment that contains a grammatical error.
No sooner had the verdict been announced when the defence counsel rose to file an appeal.

Given below are six sentences taken from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are numbered S1 and S2 and are fixed in their positions. The other four sentences are jumbled up and are numbered A, B, C, and D. Rearrange them in a logical sequence.

S1 One day, as he was walking about beneath the tree, he saw several young snakes coming out of a hole in the ground.
A. I left you starving, and now here you are, well and strong!"
B. When they grew strong and began to move about in the jungle, they met their mother, who exclaimed: "I can't believe it!
C. The herdsman felt sorry for them, so every day he gave them some milk.
D. They looked thin and miserable.
S2 They told her how the herdsman had taken care of them.

Given below are six sentences taken from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are numbered S1 and S2 and are placed in the first and last positions respectively and are fixed in their positions. The other four sentences between S1 and S2 are jumbled up and are numbered A, B, C, and D. Rearrange the jumbled sentences in a logical sequence keeping the unity and coherence of the paragraph intact. Choose the correct alternative that best describes the sequence.

S1 Although he was married, with children, his was a solitary disposition; he liked best to work alone.
A. Autumn was best for this, better than spring.
B. It pleased him when he was given a bank to build up or a gate to mend at the far end of the peninsula, where the sea surrounded the farmland on either side.
C. Then, at midday, he would pause and eat the pasty that his wife had baked for him and, sitting on the cliff's edge, would watch the birds.
D. In spring the birds flew inland, purposeful, intent; they knew where they were bound; the rhythm and ritual of their life brooked no delay.
S2 In autumn those that had not migrated overseas but remained to pass the winter were caught up in the same driving urge, but because migration was denied them, followed a pattern of their own.

What is the antonym of "Egalitarian"?

Directions (93-97): In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

The handloom has outlived every technology that was supposed to bury it. Each generation of mill owners has confidently announced its (1) _____ and each has been obliged to watch the loom persist in villages where capital never quite arrived. Part of the explanation is economic: a loom costs little, occupies the corner of a house, and can be (2) _____ by a family without wages, supervisors or shift timings. But economics alone cannot account for the stubbornness of the craft. A handwoven sari carries irregularities a thickened weft here, a wandering border there - that a power loom is engineered to eliminate, and urban buyers have lately begun to (3) _____ precisely those flaws as proof of human authorship. What the mill treats as defect, the market has learnt to read as signature.

Policy, meanwhile, has been rather less helpful than its budgets would suggest. Schemes conceived in distant capitals tend to (4) _____ weavers as beneficiaries rather than as entrepreneurs, dispensing subsidies while leaving the architecture of debt and middlemen wholly untouched. The weavers' own associations argue, with some justice, that what the trade needs is not charity but access to yarn at fair prices, to contemporary design, and above all to the buyer, from whom they remain (5) _____ by a chain of intermediaries who capture most of the margin.

Fill in the Blank 1.

Fill in the Blank 2.

Fill in the Blank 3.

Fill in the Blank 4.

Fill in the Blank 5.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the word: Ebullient

Identify the incorrect sentence.

A. Sleep, long regarded as a passive interval between useful hours, is now understood as a period of intense metabolic housekeeping.
B. The implication is uncomfortable for a culture that treats sleeplessness as a badge of industry.
C. During it, the brain flushes out proteins whose accumulation is associated with degenerative disease.
D. Deprivation, therefore, is not merely tiring; it is corrosive.

The following sentences are given in jumbled order. Select the option that arranges them in the correct sequence to form a coherent paragraph.

Given below are six sentences taken from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are numbered S1 and S2 and are placed in the first and last positions respectively and are fixed in their positions. The other four sentences between S1 and S2 are jumbled up and are numbered A, B, C, and D. Rearrange the jumbled sentences in a logical sequence keeping the unity and coherence of the paragraph intact. Choose the correct alternative that best describes the sequence.

S1 Although he was married, with children, his was a solitary disposition; he liked best to work alone.
A. Autumn was best for this, better than spring.
B. It pleased him when he was given a bank to build up or a gate to mend at the far end of the peninsula, where the sea surrounded the farmland on either side.
C. Then, at midday, he would pause and eat the pasty that his wife had baked for him and, sitting on the cliff's edge, would watch the birds.
D. In spring the birds flew inland, purposeful, intent; they knew where they were bound; the rhythm and ritual of their life brooked no delay.
S2 In autumn those that had not migrated overseas but remained to pass the winter were caught up in the same driving urge, but because migration was denied them, followed a pattern of their own.

What is the antonym of "Egalitarian"?

The pie chart given below shows the number of players participated in 6 tournaments. The data is presented in the terms of degrees.
Average number of players participated in A, B and F = 80.