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 the following the questions choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The principal advantage in having a clear cut objective of business is that it does not derail; the enterprise does not stray ...(1)... the direct route that it has set for ...(2)... Enterprises with well defined objectives can conveniently undertake ...(3)... and follow long range development policies. Recognition of objectives ...(4)... the temptation to compromise long range ...(5)... for short term gains and improves coordination in work and consistency in policy.

The last decade has been ...(1)... for management education and development. When the economies of most western countries were ...(2)... in early 1980s there were ...(3)... cuts in both in corporate training and in higher education. During the boom years of mid 1980s there was some ...(4)... in both areas. In early 1990s industrialised countries were in the ...(5)... of another service recession and a ...(6)... retrenchment was to be reasonably ...(7)...throughout the training world. But this is not the case so far. Many leading companies are ...(8)... their belief in training as the key to future competitiveness and governments have ...(9)... an era of rapid ...(10)...

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.

India will find herself again when freedom opens out new horizons. Future will then fascinate her far more than the immediate part of frustration and humiliation. she will go ...(1)... with confidence, rooted in herself eager to learn from others and cooperate with them. Today she swings ...(2)... a blind adherence to her old customs and a slavish imitation of foreign ways. In ...(3)... of these can she find relief or life or growth. It is obvious that she has to come out of her ...(4)... and take full part ...(5)... the life and activities of the modern age. It should be equally ...(6)... that there can be no real cultural or spiritual growth based on imitation. Such imitation can only be ...(7)... to a small number which cuts itself ...(8)... from the masses and the ...(9)... of national life. True culture derives its ...(10)... from every corner of world, but it is ...(11)... and has to be ...(12)... on the wide mass of people. Art and literature remains ...(13)... if they are ...(14)... thinking of foreign models. The day of a ...(15)... culture confined to a small fastidious group is past. We have to think in terms of people generally and their culture must be continuous and development of past trends and also represent their new urges and creative tendencies.

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.

The strength of the electronics industry in Japan is the Japanese ability to organise production and marketing rather than their achievements in original research. The British are generally recognised as a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent. There are many examples, from the TSR Z hovercraft, high speed train and Sinclair scooter to the Triumph, BSA and Norton Motorcycle which all prove this sad rule. The Japanese were able to exploits their strengths in marketing and development many years ago, and their success was at first either not understood in the West or was dismissed as something which could have been produced only at their low price. They were sold because they were cheap copies of other people's ideas churned out of a workhouse which was dedicated to hard grind above all else.

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

In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicised and underlined in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom/phrase.