List of top English Questions asked in CLAT

Away, through, up, down — choose the one word that forms a familiar verb phrase with {each of these.}
Prima facie — choose the correct meaning.
Sine die — choose the correct meaning.
Bona fide — choose the correct meaning.
Status quo — choose the correct meaning.
Down, aside, about, forth — choose one word that combines with each to form familiar verb phrases.
Over, about, after, at — choose one word that combines with each to form familiar verb phrases.
UNIT II — Arrange the sentences to form the best-ordered paragraph.
(i) Of course, modern postal services now are much more sophisticated and faster, relying as they do on motor vehicles and planes.
(ii) Indeed, the ancient Egyptians had a system for sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Zhou dynasty in China a thousand years later.
(iii) Letters were, and are, sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way.
(iv) For centuries, the only form of written correspondence was the letter.
UNIT III — Arrange the sentences to form the best-ordered paragraph.
(i) Converting money into several currencies in the course of one trip can also be quite expensive, given that banks and bureaux de change charge commission on the transaction.
(ii) Trying to work out the value of the various notes and coins can be quite a strain, particularly if you are visiting more than one country.
(iii) Travel can be very exciting, but it can also be rather complicated.
(iv) One of these complications is, undoubtedly, foreign currency.
UNIT IV — Arrange the sentences to form the best-ordered paragraph.
(i) She will be right about three—curiosity, freckles, and doubt—but wrong about love.
(ii) “Four of the things I’d be better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.”
(iii) Love is indispensable in life.
(iv) So wrote Dorothy Parker, the American writer.
UNIT V — Arrange the sentences to form the best-ordered paragraph.
(i) This clearly indicates that the brains of men and women are organized differently in the way they process speech.
(ii) Difference in the way men and women process language is of special interest to brain researchers.
(iii) However women are more likely than men to suffer aphasia when the front part of the brain is damaged.
(iv) It has been known that aphasia — a kind of speech disorder — is more common in men than in women when the left side of the brain is damaged in an accident or after a stroke.
What was the problem? Why ................................ leave early?
Nobody believed Ann at first, but he ........................ to be right.
We can’t ................................ making a decision. We have to decide now.
The accident was my fault, so I had to pay for the damage ................................ the other car.
I really object ................................ people smoking in my house.
A contract may be ........................................ if the court finds there has been misinterpretation of the facts.
(Jumbled Sentences) Arrange the following to form the best-ordered paragraph.
(i) The Super tag scanner could revolutionize the way people shop, virtually eradicating supermarket queues.
(ii) The face of retailing will change even more rapidly when the fiber-optic networks being built by cable-TV companies begin to be more widely used.
(iii) The scanner would have a double benefit for supermarkets—removing the bottleneck that frustrates most customers and reducing the number of checkout staff.
(iv) An electronic scanner which can read the entire contents of a supermarket trolley at a glance has just been developed.
They live on a busy road ........................................ a lot of noise from the traffic.
The more electricity you use ........................................
Ben likes walking ........................................
It’s two years ................................ Sophie.
Three of the four words are spelt wrongly. Select the correctly spelt word.
Three of the four words are spelt wrongly. Select the correctly spelt word.
Three of the four words are spelt wrongly. Select the correctly spelt word.