MOCK TEST (Questions Set 17) – Useful For WBCS, CGL/CHSL/MTS and WBP/KP Constable, etc

Sol. Use the pronoun ‘I’ in the given space. The correct formation is ‘my friend and I’, ‘Ravi and I’, ‘She and I’, ‘He and I’, ‘You and I’, etc. 

Sol. Use ‘collecting’ in the given space. ‘Before’ takes gerund form of the verb. Ex-  Before doing anything else, we should talk first about all this.

Sol. Use the preposition ‘on’ in the given space. (Feed on something): if an animal feeds on something, it eats it, especially as its usual food.

Sol. Use ‘make’ in the given space. ‘Nothing but’ means ‘only’. We use ‘nothing but’ in front of a noun, in front of a bare infinitive (v1), or in front of a gerund (v1 + ing).

Ex- It did nothing but make us ridiculous.

Ex- They care for nothing but fighting.

Ex- His story is nothing but a lie.

Sol. Use ‘harmoniously’ - in place of - ‘harmonious’. We need an adverb here for the verb ‘live’. ‘Harmonious’ is an adjective and ‘harmoniously’ is an adverb.

Sol. Use ‘directly’ - in place of - ‘direct’. We need an adverb here for the verb ‘speak’.

Sol. Use ‘fond of’ - in place of - ‘fond to’. The correct usage is: to be fond of (something/someone), which means to like (something/someone) very much.

Ex- I’m fond of Hollywood movies. 

Sol. Use ‘have never seen’ - in place of - ‘did not see’. The use of the advreb ‘yet’ tells us that the sentence should be framed in the present perfect tense. 

Sol. Use ‘until you finish’ - in place of - ‘until you don’t finish’. In ‘until’ clause, we don’t use ‘not’ because ‘until’ itself is a negative word.

Sol. Use ‘ prefer tea to coffee’ - in place of - ‘prefer tea than coffee’. ‘Prefer’ takes the preposition ‘to’.