List of top English Grammar Questions asked in Xavier Aptitude Test

Peter has suggested to me that the ________ of highly systematic and ________ planning techniques may have led to a substantial ________ in firms’ notions of what is likely to happen in the future, and thus to a ________ in the incidence of mistakes, especially on the part of the ________ modern corporations.
Clinical practitioners ________ integrated mindfulness ________ treatment of ________ host of emotional and behavioural disorders, ________ borderline personality disorder, major depression, chronic pain, or eating disorders. Number of such practitioners ________ increased substantially.
Ontologies are ________ equated with taxonomic hierarchies of classes, class definitions, and ________ subsumption relation, ________ ontologies need not be limited to ________ forms.
The MBA (1) is hardly a prerequisite for success, but it (2) certainly helps (3), and it has been getting more important (4) in recent years. Most (5) MBA programs equip their graduates to understand how (6) to deal with many of the important questions that their organizations will need to tackle (7) over time, and (8) that they will face in their careers. The above italicized numbered words will be correctly represented by the following parts of speech:
Which of the following is the correct form of expression for the underlined part of the sentence below?
Patna is not only the capital of Bihar, but it is also one of the oldest cities in the world and the largest city in the state.
Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence.
To be a great manager _________ strong inter-personal skills, the ability to think fast, and demands a can-do attitude.
Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence.
The tremendous insight of Einstein was that the passage of time does not appear to be the same _________ a person traveling at a speed which is a significant fraction of the speed of light.
Read the following sentence and choose the best alternative which should replace the italicized part of the sentence.
Economic theory fails to explain the extent _________ savings from personal income has shifted to short-term bonds, money-market funds, and other near-term investments by the instability in the futures market.
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the man with the lantern some paces in front.
2. My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.
3. Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.
4. The next moment his voice showed me that I was right.
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. Finally he took a wrong turn and ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet, crying, "Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk," and other names, "you won’t leave old Pew, mates—not old Pew!"
2. This quarrel was the saving of us, for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet—the tramp of horses galloping.
3. And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
4. Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.
5. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge side.
Read the following sentences and choose the option that best arranges them in a logical order.
1. As chroniclers of an incremental process, they discover that additional research makes it harder, not easier, to answer questions like: When was oxygen discovered? Who first conceived of energy conservation?
2. Simultaneously, these same historians confront growing difficulties in distinguishing the "scientific" component of past observation and belief from what their predecessors had readily labeled "error" and "superstition."
3. Increasingly, a few of them suspect that these are simply the wrong sorts of questions to ask. Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions.
4. In recent years, however, a few historians of science have been finding it more and more difficult to fulfill the functions that the concept of development-by-accumulation assigns to them.
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:
He got _________ next morning, to be sure, and had his meals _________ usual, though he ate _________ and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself _________ the bar, scowling and blowing _________ his nose, and no one dared _________ cross him.
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:
_________ bat who fell upon _________ ground and was caught by _________ weasel pleaded to be spared his life. _________ weasel refused, saying that he was by nature _________ enemy of all birds. _________ bat assured him that he was not _________ mouse, and thus was set free.
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:
_________ wolf, meeting with _________ lamb astray from _________ fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to _________ lamb _________ wolf's right to eat him.
In the song sung on Independence Day, Ram’s voice was _________. The option that best fills the blank would be:
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