Clat 2019 English Solution 2

5.         (A)    I shall be doing a MBA online, and continue with my present job.

(B)           I shall do a MBA online, and continue with my present job.

(C)           I shall do an MBA online, and continue with my present job.

(D)          I shall do an MBA online, but continuing with my present job.

 

Solution & Explanation- Sentence given in option (C) is the grammatically correct sentence with proper use of article, verb and tense.

 

Article - An article is a word used to modify a noun, which is a person, place, object, or idea.

Verb - A verb is a kind of word (part of speech) that tells about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence has a verb.

Tense-Tense is the form of a verb that takes to show the time it happened.

 

 

Sentence given in option (A) is the grammatically incorrect sentence because of “an” should be used before “MBA,” not article “a” and tense form is also wrong.

     

Sentence given in option (B) is the grammatically incorrect sentence because of “an” should be used before “MBA,” not article “a”.

 

Sentence given in option (D) is the grammatically incorrect sentence because of used tense form (the word ‘continuing’) is wrong.

 

Tense is related the verb. In each period we use four kinds of tenses. They are Simple tense, Perfect tense, Continuous tense and Perfect continuous tense.

 

 

6.              (A)    As soon as I boarded the train, I realized that I left my wallet at home.

(B)           As soon as I boarded the train, I realize that I had left wallet at home.

(C)           As soon as I board the train, I realized that I leave my wallet at home.

(D)          As soon as I boarded the train, I realized that I had left my wallet at home.

 

 

Solution & Explanation- Sentence given in option (D) is the grammatically correct sentence as used correct tense form.

 

Sentence given in option (A) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as used wrong tense.

     

Sentence given in option (B) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as used ‘realise’ is wrong, while it should be in past tense form i.e. ‘realized’.

 

Sentence given in option (C) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as used wrong tense form ‘leave’ i.e. the past tense of leave is 'left'.

 

 7.           (A)         We can take either the morning flight nor the one in the afternoon.

(B)           We can take neither the morning flight or the one in the afternoon.

(C)           We can take either morning flight or the one in afternoon.

(D)          We can take either the morning flight or the one in the afternoon.

 

Solution & Explanation- Sentence given in option (D) is the grammatically correct sentence.

 

Sentence given in option (A) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as Either (Conjunction) must be followed by or.

 

Sentence given in option (B) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as Neither (Conjunction) must be followed by nor.

     

Sentence given in option (C) is the grammatically incorrect sentence. The noun (afternoon) is missing a determiner before it.

 

Determiner- A determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this', and 'each'.

 

 8.           (A)         The management have promised that it will consider my appeal.

(B)          The management has promised that it will consider my appeal.

(C)             The management has promise that they will consider my appeal.

(D)            The management has promised that it will considered my appeal.

 

Solution & Explanation- Sentence given in option (B) is the grammatically correct sentence.

 

Sentence given in option (A) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as the verb have must agree in number and person with its subject The management. “Management” is a collective noun.

Collective noun- A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things. In most situations, collective nouns act as a single unit (may be plural), so they need a singular verb ‘has’ not ‘have’.

     

Sentence given in option (C) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as use of ‘promise’ with ‘has’ is wrong.

 

Sentence given in option (D) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as the word considered has an incorrect verb form..

 

 9.           (A)         Tourists must follow the norms set upon the country they visit.

(B)          Tourists must follow norms set by country they visit.

(C)           Tourists must follow the norms set by the country they visit.

(C)         Tourists must follow the norms set by the country they visits.

 

Solution & Explanation- Sentence given in option (C) is the grammatically correct sentence

 

Sentence given in option (A) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as use of incorrect preposition (upon).

 

Preposition- A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. Prepositions are words like in and out, above and below, and to and from, and they're words we use all the time.

     

Sentence given in option (B) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as the definite article is missing before “norms” & “country”.

 

Definite article- An article is a short word that refers to and introduces a noun. 'The' is the one and only definite article in English, which means that it refers to, or introduces, a particular, specific noun. Remember that you should use an indefinite article in front of a singular noun, but not a plural noun.

Sentence given in option (D) is the grammatically incorrect sentence as the verb visit must agree in number and person with its subject they.

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