Online Verbal Ability Test - Verbal Ability Test - Random

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

In each of the sentences given below a word is printed in bold. Below it four choices are given. Pick up the one which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word printer in bold and can replaces it without altering the meaning of the sentence.

Each sentences below consist of a word or a phrase which is bold. It is followed by four words or phrases. Select the word or pharse which is closes to the OPPOSITE in meaning of the bold word or phrase.

Find the correctly spelt words.

Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.

In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option 'D' is the answer.

In questions below, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the begining. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

Now-a-days, under the ...(1)... system of education, however good it may be, when a young man comes out of the university, there seems to be this ...(2)... in him that the higher the standard of living raises, the less should a man work. Thus, mathematically, the higher the standard of living, according to this misconceived notion, the less the ...(3)... Ultimately, what should be the highest standard of living then? ...(4)... work! This leads to an unhealthy ...(5)...among the workers. A typist who types over twenty letters a day asks his ...(6)... how many letters he had types that day. The latter ...(7)... "fifteen". The former thinks, "Tomorrow I should type only fifteen or even ...(8)... This tendency is quite ...(9)... and may ultimately lead to ...(10)... Even one's family life may be affected adversely due to such tendency.

Many parents greet their children's teenage years with needless dread. While teens ...(1)... assault us with heavy metal music ...(2)... outlandish clothes and spend all ...(3)... time with friends, such behaviour ...(4)... adds up to full scale revolt teenage ...(5)... according to psychologist laurence steinberg, has been ...(6)... exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ...(7)... teenagers inevitably rebel is a ...(8)... that has the potential for great family ...(9)..." say Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ...(10)... communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.

It is difficult to find a person who would put good word for the kind of bureaucracy we have in India. Incidentally, things may now be seen as coming to a head ...(1)... the attainment of independence, India ...(2)... from time to time several ...(3)... power committees or commissions to ...(4)... administration. In spite of all this, the impression ...(5)... that the Indian variety of bureaucracy has been slow and slothful. Fact is that the ...(6)... of bureaucurracy happens to be ...(7)... the same all over the world. Even in USA Presidents have ...(8)... a great deal of concern ...(9)... the manner in which buraeucurracy has been functioning at various levels. In spite of all this, not much change can be ...(10)... in the near future. One may feel like hanging one's head the despair unless one believes in some super human power the looks after our universe.

In the earlier days, some long distance trains were ...(1)... more number of compartments, thus making the train ...(2)... than even the length of platforms. Therefore, the last compartment usually ...(3)... outside the platform. Once the person travelling in the last compartment of such a train could not ...(4)... tea, coffee, snacks or water as he failed to ...(5)... on the platform. He remained hungry and thirsty through out his ...(6)... on reaching his destination, he ...(7)... a written complaint in which he appealed, ...(8)... long distance train should ever have any last compartment. If at all, last compartment cannot be ...(9)... it should be placed somewhere in the ...(10)...

The young student was delighted to be told of his winning the first prize in an oratorical competition conducted by the Film Federation of India. the selection gave him the rare opportunity of meeting the matinee-idol in person. He anxiously looked forward to the ...(1)... he was given a ...(2)... welcome by the ...(3)... The boy was ...(4)... by the reception. He was so ...(5)... that he did not utter a word for sometime. He even ...(6)... to offer the conventional greetings. When he did recover his ...(7)... he greeted the ...(8)... with folded hands. This got an immediate ...(9)... from the matinee-idol . The boy was asked about his ...(10)... hobby. He had no ...(11)... in admitting that it was going to films. Next he was asked to ...(12)... the film he liked the most. The boy was careful to name a film in which the idol had a leading ...(13)... This was followed by a question about the reason for the ...(14)... The boy mentioned a few ...(15)... of the film.

Parents spend to much time worrying about their adolescents wasting time. But for an adolescent, many activities, parents consider wasteful, are, in fact, worthwhile. Parents complain that teenagers spend too much daydreaming. Yet ...(1)... has important functions in teenagers' development ...(2)... daydreams, all adolescents try out various ...(3)... as they search for the direction ...(4)... want to take in their lives. Many daydreams are ways of ...(5)... escaping the streets of everyday life ...(6)... even they have some immediate-tension-reducing ...(7)... Some parents also complain about the ...(8)... conversation the teenagers have with one ...(9)... over the telephone. In fact, these ...(10)... pointless conversations are often a means ...(11)... which adolescents check out their own ...(12)... of the world with others, gaining ...(13)... view of themselves and others. For parents, the issue is the ...(14)... of the fact that any kind of significant achievement ...(15)... hard work which the adolescents do not fully appreciate.

Some scholars were exploring the forest of Middle America. They discovered some buildings which were in ruins. These buildings were ...(1)... ruined by the encroaching forest. It was also clear that these buildings were no ordinary structures. They were remnants of a ...(2)... civilisation. The scholars got interested. They excavated more and discovered ...(3)... their utmost surprise the remains of flourishing civilization-the Maya's ...(4)... they named it. Thus it was as late in ...(5)... 19^th that the secrets of new civilization were ...(6)... For sometime the scholars believed that the Mayan's must have ...(7)... the descendants of ancient Egyptians or one of the lost tribes of Israel; or perhaps a brand of the South East Asia's immigrants. However they could not come to an unanimous decision. Nonetheless the fact remains that even-to day the Mayan is one of ...(8)... most ancient cicilizations. This civilisation was situated in the ...(9)... of Middle America. It covered an area equivalent to France, ...(10)... spread across Guatemala, Belize and some part of Mexico Honduras. It started in 2500 B.C and continued its progress till 34 ...(11)... later. Throughout its period of progress, the people struggled against the invading ...(12)... They used to burn the plants and make the land ...(13)... for civilization. Their staple food was maize. but even while ...(14)... for existence, they found time to build remarkable buildings for ...(15)... they used mortar, sandstone and volcanic rock. The buildings do tell us about the technological advances they had attained.

Nationalism, of course, is a curious phenomenon which at a certain stage in a country's history gives life, growth and unity but, at the same time, it has a tendency to limit one, because one thinks of one's country as something different from the rest of world. One's perceptive changes and one is continuously thinking of one's own struggles and virtues and failing to the exclusion of other thoughts. The result is that the same nationalism which is the symbol of growth for a people becomes a symbol of the cessation of that growth in mind. Nationalism, when it becomes successful sometimes goes on spreading in an aggressive way and becomes a danger internationally. Whatever line of thought you follow, you arrive at the conclusion that some kind of balance must be found. Otherwise something that was good can turn into evil. Culture, which is essentially good become not only static but aggressive and something that breeds conflict and hatred when looked at from a wrong point of view. How are you find a balance, I don't know. Apart from the political and economic problems of the age , perhaps, that is the greatest problem today because behind it there is tremendous search for something which it cannot found. We turn to economic theories because they have an undoubted importance. It is folly to talk of culture or even of god. When human beings starve and die. Before one can talk about anything else one must provide the normal essentials of life to human beings. That is where economies comes in. Human beings today are not in mood to tolerate this suffering and starvation and inequality when they see that the burden is not equally shared. Others profit while they only bear the burden.

In questions given below out of four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given word/sentence.