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A published solution is not available for this question yet.
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse
markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting
answer for every blank.
David Foster Wallace on Entertainment
Every year, the culture gets more and more hostile. Hostile, [i] _____, angry– just [that] it becomes
more and more difficult to ask people to read or to look at a piece of art for an hour, or to listen to
a piece of music that’s complicated and that takes work to understand because, [ii] _____, there are
a lot of reasons, but [iii] _____ now, in computer and internet culture, everything is so fast and the
faster things go, the more we feed that part of ourselves, but don’t feed the part of ourselves that
likes…that likes quiet. It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet ever anymore. And
that seems to me to have something to do with the fact that we feel like the purpose of our life is
to gratify ourselves and to get things for ourselves and to be on the go all the time, [but] there’s
this other part of us– a part that is [iv] _____ hungry for silence and quiet and thinking really hard
about the same thing for [v] _____ half an hour instead of 30 seconds that doesn’t get fed at all.
And it makes itself felt in the body in a kind of dread in here (touches chest).
Transcribed from: “David Foster Wallace on Entertainment.” YouTube, uploaded by
zoombockerman, 8 Dec. 2022.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [i] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
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Apparently
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Like
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Prospectively
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For a start
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** In informal speech “like” can introduce an approximate reformulation.
**2. Apply it to the question:** After “hostile,” the speaker searches for a clearer sense and adds “angry.” “Like” works as the conversational bridge between the two descriptions.
**Answer: B — Like.**
A: **Incorrect:** It would qualify the claim as based on appearances, not naturally signal this reformulation.
B: **Correct:** It fits the informal self-clarification from “hostile” to “angry.”
C: **Incorrect:** It means from a future-oriented perspective and does not fit this aside.
D: **Incorrect:** It normally introduces the first reason or item, not this brief restatement.
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse
markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting
answer for every blank.
David Foster Wallace on Entertainment
Every year, the culture gets more and more hostile. Hostile, [i] _____, angry– just [that] it becomes
more and more difficult to ask people to read or to look at a piece of art for an hour, or to listen to
a piece of music that’s complicated and that takes work to understand because, [ii] _____, there are
a lot of reasons, but [iii] _____ now, in computer and internet culture, everything is so fast and the
faster things go, the more we feed that part of ourselves, but don’t feed the part of ourselves that
likes…that likes quiet. It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet ever anymore. And
that seems to me to have something to do with the fact that we feel like the purpose of our life is
to gratify ourselves and to get things for ourselves and to be on the go all the time, [but] there’s
this other part of us– a part that is [iv] _____ hungry for silence and quiet and thinking really hard
about the same thing for [v] _____ half an hour instead of 30 seconds that doesn’t get fed at all.
And it makes itself felt in the body in a kind of dread in here (touches chest).
Transcribed from: “David Foster Wallace on Entertainment.” YouTube, uploaded by
zoombockerman, 8 Dec. 2022.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [ii] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
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Sort of
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Kind of
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Well
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In conclusion
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Well” can mark hesitation or prepare a qualification in spoken explanation.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Because, well, there are a lot of reasons” pauses before admitting that the explanation is complicated.
**Answer: C — Well.**
A: **Incorrect:** This hedge would normally qualify a following expression rather than stand as this complete parenthesis.
B: **Incorrect:** It likewise needs an expression to qualify and is less fitting than the pause marker.
C: **Correct:** It naturally marks the speaker’s pause before a qualified explanation.
D: **Incorrect:** The speaker is beginning an explanation, not concluding it.
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse
markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting
answer for every blank.
David Foster Wallace on Entertainment
Every year, the culture gets more and more hostile. Hostile, [i] _____, angry– just [that] it becomes
more and more difficult to ask people to read or to look at a piece of art for an hour, or to listen to
a piece of music that’s complicated and that takes work to understand because, [ii] _____, there are
a lot of reasons, but [iii] _____ now, in computer and internet culture, everything is so fast and the
faster things go, the more we feed that part of ourselves, but don’t feed the part of ourselves that
likes…that likes quiet. It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet ever anymore. And
that seems to me to have something to do with the fact that we feel like the purpose of our life is
to gratify ourselves and to get things for ourselves and to be on the go all the time, [but] there’s
this other part of us– a part that is [iv] _____ hungry for silence and quiet and thinking really hard
about the same thing for [v] _____ half an hour instead of 30 seconds that doesn’t get fed at all.
And it makes itself felt in the body in a kind of dread in here (touches chest).
Transcribed from: “David Foster Wallace on Entertainment.” YouTube, uploaded by
zoombockerman, 8 Dec. 2022.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [iii] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
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In summary
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Furthermore
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On the one hand
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Particularly
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Particularly” highlights the special importance of a time or circumstance.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The speaker singles out the present computer-and-internet environment: “particularly now.”
**Answer: D — Particularly.**
A: **Incorrect:** The sentence is narrowing its focus, not summarizing previous points.
B: **Incorrect:** It would add another proposition and does not naturally modify “now” here.
C: **Incorrect:** It opens one side of a two-part contrast, which this position does not establish.
D: **Correct:** It emphasizes the special relevance of the present moment.
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse
markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting
answer for every blank.
David Foster Wallace on Entertainment
Every year, the culture gets more and more hostile. Hostile, [i] _____, angry– just [that] it becomes
more and more difficult to ask people to read or to look at a piece of art for an hour, or to listen to
a piece of music that’s complicated and that takes work to understand because, [ii] _____, there are
a lot of reasons, but [iii] _____ now, in computer and internet culture, everything is so fast and the
faster things go, the more we feed that part of ourselves, but don’t feed the part of ourselves that
likes…that likes quiet. It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet ever anymore. And
that seems to me to have something to do with the fact that we feel like the purpose of our life is
to gratify ourselves and to get things for ourselves and to be on the go all the time, [but] there’s
this other part of us– a part that is [iv] _____ hungry for silence and quiet and thinking really hard
about the same thing for [v] _____ half an hour instead of 30 seconds that doesn’t get fed at all.
And it makes itself felt in the body in a kind of dread in here (touches chest).
Transcribed from: “David Foster Wallace on Entertainment.” YouTube, uploaded by
zoombockerman, 8 Dec. 2022.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [iv] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
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Almost
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Such as
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Fine
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Anyway
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** An approximating degree adverb can qualify a figurative description.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Almost hungry for silence” suggests a need resembling physical hunger. “Almost” fits immediately before “hungry.”
**Answer: A — Almost.**
A: **Correct:** It qualifies the metaphorical hunger naturally.
B: **Incorrect:** It introduces examples, not a degree of hunger.
C: **Incorrect:** It is an evaluation/response word, not the modifier needed here.
D: **Incorrect:** It normally shifts or resumes a topic rather than modify “hungry.”
Read the speech segment given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate discourse
markers. Observe the tone and the punctuation of the passage and choose only the most fitting
answer for every blank.
David Foster Wallace on Entertainment
Every year, the culture gets more and more hostile. Hostile, [i] _____, angry– just [that] it becomes
more and more difficult to ask people to read or to look at a piece of art for an hour, or to listen to
a piece of music that’s complicated and that takes work to understand because, [ii] _____, there are
a lot of reasons, but [iii] _____ now, in computer and internet culture, everything is so fast and the
faster things go, the more we feed that part of ourselves, but don’t feed the part of ourselves that
likes…that likes quiet. It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet ever anymore. And
that seems to me to have something to do with the fact that we feel like the purpose of our life is
to gratify ourselves and to get things for ourselves and to be on the go all the time, [but] there’s
this other part of us– a part that is [iv] _____ hungry for silence and quiet and thinking really hard
about the same thing for [v] _____ half an hour instead of 30 seconds that doesn’t get fed at all.
And it makes itself felt in the body in a kind of dread in here (touches chest).
Transcribed from: “David Foster Wallace on Entertainment.” YouTube, uploaded by
zoombockerman, 8 Dec. 2022.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Fill in blank [v] with the most fitting discourse marker among the options given below.
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Finally
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Maybe
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Truth be told
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Consequently
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Maybe” can introduce an approximate estimate in informal speech.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The speaker contrasts sustained attention for “maybe half an hour” with just 30 seconds; the duration is illustrative rather than exact.
**Answer: B — Maybe.**
A: **Incorrect:** It expresses sequence, not an approximate duration.
B: **Correct:** It naturally qualifies the estimate “half an hour.”
C: **Incorrect:** It introduces a candid admission but does not fit smoothly within this duration phrase.
D: **Incorrect:** It marks a consequence, not an estimate.
Given below is an excerpt from the essay “Gifts”, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Study the essay
and answer the given subquestions.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both
emotions are unbecoming. Some violence, I think, is done, some degradation borne, when I
rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when my independence is invaded, or when a gift comes from
such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported; and if the gift pleases me
overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his
commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him,
and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil, or
this flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to
deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. This giving is flat usurpation, and
therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all
considering the value of the gift, but looking back to the greater store it was taken from, I rather
sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation of
gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is
a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to
be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally
wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, "Do not flatter your benefactors."
The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man
and any gift. You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he
at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. The service a man renders his friend is trivial and
selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before
he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend,
the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small. When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick-- no more. They eat your service like apples, and
leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Arrange the given hints in the correct order to form a synopsis of the essay.
i. The unpleasantness of being obligated
ii. Love as the most delightful gift
iii. The reason why beautiful things make the best gifts
iv. The conflict between the beneficiary and the benefactor with an allusion to Timon of Athens
v. The thoughts we have upon receiving a gift
vi. Comparison between goodwill and gifts
vii. The true meaning of a gift
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v-vii-iii-iv-i-vi-ii
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vi-v-iii-ii-iv-i-vii
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iii-i-vii-iv-vi-ii-v
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ii-vi-i-iii-v-iv-vii
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A synopsis follows the passage’s sequence of argument rather than merely collecting its themes.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The extract moves from reactions to gifts (v), through true giving (vii), beautiful gifts (iii), the Timon conflict (iv), obligation (i), goodwill versus services (vi), and finally love (ii).
**Answer: A — v-vii-iii-iv-i-vi-ii.**
A: **Correct:** It matches the full progression from the opening reflection to the final emphasis on love.
B: **Incorrect:** It starts with a late comparison and dislocates the conclusion.
C: **Incorrect:** It puts the opening reactions last and reverses the argument’s development.
D: **Incorrect:** It starts with the final insight and scrambles the intervening points.
Given below is an excerpt from the essay “Gifts”, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Study the essay
and answer the given subquestions.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both
emotions are unbecoming. Some violence, I think, is done, some degradation borne, when I
rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when my independence is invaded, or when a gift comes from
such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported; and if the gift pleases me
overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his
commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him,
and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil, or
this flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to
deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. This giving is flat usurpation, and
therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all
considering the value of the gift, but looking back to the greater store it was taken from, I rather
sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation of
gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is
a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to
be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally
wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, "Do not flatter your benefactors."
The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man
and any gift. You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he
at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. The service a man renders his friend is trivial and
selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before
he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend,
the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small. When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick-- no more. They eat your service like apples, and
leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Why does the essayist refer to lord Timon?
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Lord Timon once gave the essayist a gift which he disliked
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Lord Timon is used here as an example, denoting gift-givers in general; it is
implied that he was famous for giving gifts
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Lord Timon commissioned this essay, so this essay is Emerson’s gift to Timon
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** An allusion can use a recognizable figure to illustrate a general kind of behavior.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The passage uses Timon as a representative generous benefactor who becomes angry at a beneficiary’s ingratitude. It does not describe a personal exchange with Emerson.
**Answer: B — Lord Timon is used here as an example, denoting gift-givers in general; it is .**
A: **Incorrect:** No personal gift from Timon to the essayist is stated.
B: **Correct:** It recognizes Timon as the illustrative benefactor in the argument.
C: **Incorrect:** Nothing in the passage says Timon commissioned the essay.
Given below is an excerpt from the essay “Gifts”, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Study the essay
and answer the given subquestions.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both
emotions are unbecoming. Some violence, I think, is done, some degradation borne, when I
rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when my independence is invaded, or when a gift comes from
such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported; and if the gift pleases me
overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his
commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him,
and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil, or
this flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to
deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. This giving is flat usurpation, and
therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all
considering the value of the gift, but looking back to the greater store it was taken from, I rather
sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation of
gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is
a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to
be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally
wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, "Do not flatter your benefactors."
The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man
and any gift. You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he
at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. The service a man renders his friend is trivial and
selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before
he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend,
the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small. When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick-- no more. They eat your service like apples, and
leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Which of the following is NOT true?
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The excerpt argues that man’s goodwill is greater than any gift
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The excerpt states that it is not noble to expect gratitude
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The excerpt states that only useful things are acceptable as gifts
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The excerpt states that you cannot give anything to a magnanimous person
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** For a NOT-true question, compare each statement with the passage and select the contradiction.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The essay favors beautiful rather than merely useful gifts. Thus the claim that only useful gifts are acceptable reverses its position.
**Answer: C — The excerpt states that only useful things are acceptable as gifts.**
A: **Incorrect:** The second paragraph explicitly treats goodwill as greater than the material service.
B: **Incorrect:** The passage condemns expecting gratitude as a mean attitude.
C: **Correct:** It contradicts the preference for beautiful rather than useful gifts.
D: **Incorrect:** The passage explicitly makes this claim about a magnanimous person.
Given below is an excerpt from the essay “Gifts”, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Study the essay
and answer the given subquestions.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both
emotions are unbecoming. Some violence, I think, is done, some degradation borne, when I
rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when my independence is invaded, or when a gift comes from
such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported; and if the gift pleases me
overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his
commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him,
and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil, or
this flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to
deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. This giving is flat usurpation, and
therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all
considering the value of the gift, but looking back to the greater store it was taken from, I rather
sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation of
gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is
a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to
be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally
wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, "Do not flatter your benefactors."
The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man
and any gift. You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he
at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. The service a man renders his friend is trivial and
selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before
he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend,
the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small. When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick-- no more. They eat your service like apples, and
leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Study the nouns given below. On the basis of your reading of the passage, choose the option that
correctly matches the noun to its fitting adjective.
i. Usurpation
ii. Person
iii. Business
iv. Trick
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** This matching task tests the actual adjective–noun combinations in the passage.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The required pairings are flat usurpation, obliged person, onerous business and intellectual trick. D reproduces all four.
**Answer: D — i-Flat, ii-Obliged, iii-Onerous, iv-Intellectual.**
A: **Incorrect:** These words do not match the nouns in their passage contexts.
B: **Incorrect:** “Magnanimous person” occurs, but the other three pairings do not reproduce the required set.
C: **Incorrect:** The adjectives are largely assigned to the wrong nouns.
D: **Correct:** All four adjective–noun pairings correspond to the passage.
Given below is an excerpt from the essay “Gifts”, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Study the essay
and answer the given subquestions.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both
emotions are unbecoming. Some violence, I think, is done, some degradation borne, when I
rejoice or grieve at a gift. I am sorry when my independence is invaded, or when a gift comes from
such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported; and if the gift pleases me
overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his
commodity, and not him. The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him,
and his to me. All his are mine, all mine his. I say to him, How can you give me this pot of oil, or
this flagon of wine, when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to
deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things for gifts. This giving is flat usurpation, and
therefore when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all
considering the value of the gift, but looking back to the greater store it was taken from, I rather
sympathize with the beneficiary, than with the anger of my lord Timon. For, the expectation of
gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is
a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to
be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally
wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, "Do not flatter your benefactors."
The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man
and any gift. You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he
at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. The service a man renders his friend is trivial and
selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before
he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend,
the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small. When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick-- no more. They eat your service like apples, and
leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well.
Which of the following options can replace the word in italics without greatly altering the sense of
the statement?
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Begrudgingly
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Graciously
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Cautiously
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Whimsically
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** To receive something “well” here means to respond in a socially and emotionally appropriate manner.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Graciously” describes receiving a gift with courtesy and goodwill, matching the favorable description of the recipient.
**Answer: B — Graciously.**
A: **Incorrect:** It implies resentment and reluctance, opposite to the favorable sense.
B: **Correct:** It preserves the sense of receiving with good grace.
C: **Incorrect:** It introduces caution, which is not what “well” means here.
D: **Incorrect:** It suggests caprice or fanciful behavior, not courteous acceptance.
“Waking dream” is an example of oxymoron. This statement is ____.
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True
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False
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** An oxymoron places apparently contradictory meanings together in a compact phrase.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Waking” suggests being awake, while a “dream” ordinarily suggests sleep. Their pairing produces the intended apparent contradiction.
**Answer: A — True.**
A: **Correct:** The compact contrast between waking and dreaming is oxymoronic.
B: **Incorrect:** It overlooks the apparent contradiction that gives the phrase its effect.
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A simile uses an explicit comparison, commonly an as…as construction.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Cool as a cucumber” compares a person’s calmness with the figurative coolness of a cucumber using “as.”
**Answer: B — Simile.**
A: **Incorrect:** The explicit comparison marker makes simile the more precise category.
B: **Correct:** It explicitly compares through “as.”
C: **Incorrect:** No nonhuman thing is given a human action in the phrase.
D: **Incorrect:** It does not present an apparently self-contradictory proposition.
“Time is money” is an example of a metaphor. This statement is _____.
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True
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False
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A metaphor directly equates unlike things to convey a shared quality.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Time is money” presents time as a valuable resource that can be spent or wasted, without an explicit “like/as” comparison.
**Answer: A — True.**
A: **Correct:** It directly equates time with money figuratively.
B: **Incorrect:** It denies the direct figurative identification present in the sentence.
Which of the following discourse markers is used to emphasis a stronger ‘yes’?
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Absolutely
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Truly
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Honestly
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Actually
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Absolutely” is a conventional emphatic affirmative response.
**2. Apply it to the question:** As a reply to a yes/no question, “Absolutely!” gives a strong and unqualified yes.
**Answer: A — Absolutely.**
A: **Correct:** It directly supplies the intended emphatic agreement.
B: **Incorrect:** It emphasizes truth but is less conventional as this standalone strong yes.
C: **Incorrect:** It foregrounds sincerity rather than emphatic agreement.
D: **Incorrect:** It commonly introduces correction or a contrary expectation.
'The city never sleeps' is an example of personification. This statement is
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True
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False
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** Personification assigns a human or animate behavior to a nonhuman entity.
**2. Apply it to the question:** A city is described as if it could sleep; “never sleeps” figuratively conveys continual activity.
**Answer: A — True.**
**Convention note:** The city also stands for the people and activity within it, so a metonymic reading is possible. Personification is the intended device in this elementary classification.
A: **Correct:** Sleeping is attributed to the city as though it were a living being.
B: **Incorrect:** It overlooks the figurative humanizing description.
Spot the viewpoint adverb in the given sentence.
“Historically, the great Indian patriarchy, or the paradigm of gendered labour woven into the
country’s socio-cultural DNA, has demanded women’s unpaid domestic labour and caregiving
duties.”
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Unpaid
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Woven
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Historically
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Caregiving
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A viewpoint adverb establishes the perspective from which an assertion is made.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Historically” frames the statement as an assessment of historical patterns of labor and social expectations.
**Answer: C — Historically.**
A: **Incorrect:** It modifies “domestic labour” adjectivally rather than framing the whole statement.
B: **Incorrect:** It is a participial form in the descriptive phrase about the paradigm.
C: **Correct:** It supplies the historical perspective for the assertion.
D: **Incorrect:** It modifies “duties” in the noun phrase, not the viewpoint of the statement.
“He is definitely a peculiar character.”
The word in italics in the given sentence is:
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Focus adverb
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Comment adverb
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Degree adverb
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Viewpoint adverb
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A comment adverb can express the speaker’s judgment or certainty about a proposition.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Definitely” signals confidence that he is a peculiar character. It does not measure the degree of peculiarity in the way “very” would.
**Answer: B — Comment adverb.**
**Convention note:** Some grammars use the more specific label “adverb of certainty” or “modal adverb.” “Comment adverb” is the closest available course category.
A: **Incorrect:** It does not restrict a focused element as “only” or “even” can.
B: **Correct:** It comments on the speaker’s certainty about the statement.
C: **Incorrect:** It expresses certainty, not how peculiar the character is.
D: **Incorrect:** It does not specify a domain such as legally or historically.
Consider the italicised phrases in the following sentences:
i. Put the book there.
ii. Order the carriage around.
iii. She often talks to me.
They are adverbs of _____, _____, and _____ respectively.
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Manner, manner, frequency
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Manner, time, degree
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Degree, place, time
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Place, place, frequency
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** Classify each highlighted expression by the question it answers.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “There” gives a location; “around” in “order the carriage around” gives a spatial orientation/movement reading; “often” gives frequency. The sequence is place, place, frequency.
**Answer: D — Place, place, frequency.**
**Convention note:** “Order the carriage around” is awkward wording. The intended reading treats “around” spatially; “order someone around” in a different sentence is an idiomatic verb construction.
A: **Incorrect:** The first two expressions give spatial information rather than manner.
B: **Incorrect:** “Around” is not a time expression and “often” is not degree.
C: **Incorrect:** “There” does not express degree, and “often” specifically expresses frequency.
D: **Correct:** It matches the spatial and frequency functions in the given sentences.
Identify the adverbs/adverbial phrases in the given sentence.
Ram’s daughter is never early to class in the morning.
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To class
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In the morning
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Early
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All of these
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** The exercise groups expressions by their temporal or spatial contribution to the predication.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “To class” supplies a destination/location, “in the morning” supplies time, and “early” supplies an early-time description. On that broad functional reading, all three listed expressions qualify, so D is the intended answer. “Never” is also a frequency adverb, though it is not offered separately.
**Answer: D — All of these.**
**Convention note:** The wording mixes meaning, phrase function and word class. In a stricter syntactic analysis, “early” after copular “is” can be a predicative adjective, and “to class” can depend on that adjective; D should not be read as proving that all three are adverbs as a word class. “In the morning” is unambiguously an adverbial of time. Cambridge notes that “early” can be either adjective or adverb: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/early
A: **Incorrect:** It supplies the class destination in the broad adverbial analysis, but is not the only expression intended.
B: **Incorrect:** It is a clear temporal adverbial, but the exercise also includes the other listed expressions.
C: **Incorrect:** The exercise includes its time meaning; its precise word-class analysis is discussed in the note.
D: **Correct:** It collects the three expressions that the paper treats broadly as adverbs/adverbials.
Identify the adverbs/adverbial phrases in the given sentence.
My cousin has been my friend since childhood.
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Since childhood
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My cousin
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My
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All of these
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A temporal adverbial can specify the starting point of a continuing state.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Since childhood” tells when the friendship began and connects that past starting point with the present perfect “has been.”
**Answer: A — Since childhood.**
A: **Correct:** It supplies the temporal starting point of the friendship.
B: **Incorrect:** It is the subject noun phrase.
C: **Incorrect:** It is a possessive determiner, not an adverbial.
D: **Incorrect:** The subject phrase and determiner are not adverbials.
Sekhar slept early yesterday. Here, the adverb appears in the ____.
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Subject
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Predicate
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No adverb
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Both Subject and Predicate
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** The predicate is the part of a clause that says something about its subject and includes the verb and its modifiers.
**2. Apply it to the question:** In “Sekhar slept early yesterday,” the subject is “Sekhar.” Both temporal modifiers “early” and “yesterday” occur in the predicate “slept early yesterday.”
**Answer: B — Predicate.**
A: **Incorrect:** The subject consists of the proper noun “Sekhar,” without the adverbs.
B: **Correct:** The time modifiers belong to the predicate containing “slept.”
C: **Incorrect:** “Early” and “yesterday” supply temporal modification.
D: **Incorrect:** Neither adverb is part of the subject.
Identify the degree adverb in the given sentence.
“The cellar is nearly filled up, never having been either wide or deep, and the fruit of a few mossy
apple−trees drops ungathered to the ground.”
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Few
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Filled
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Mossy
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Nearly
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A degree adverb can indicate how close a state is to completion.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Nearly” modifies “filled up,” meaning the cellar is almost, but not completely, full.
**Answer: D — Nearly.**
A: **Incorrect:** “Few” quantifies the apple trees; it is not the degree modifier of filling.
B: **Incorrect:** It is the participial form being modified.
C: **Incorrect:** It describes the apple trees.
D: **Correct:** It expresses the degree of completion of “filled up.”
‘Very’ and ‘very much’ can be used interchangeably. This statement is ___.
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True
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False
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Very” and “very much” have different grammatical distributions.
**2. Apply it to the question:** We say “very happy” but normally not “very much happy”; we say “I like it very much” but not “I like it very.” One cannot replace the other freely.
**Answer: B — False.**
A: **Incorrect:** The example constructions show that substitution can make the sentence ungrammatical.
B: **Correct:** Their different compatibility with adjectives and verbs prevents unrestricted interchange.
In the following sentences, which one has the word "care" in the role of an adjective?
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She says we are part of the care economy.
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They care for their family.
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He does not care.
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Ram won't care for his child.
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A word can function as a pre-noun modifier even when its usual lexical category is noun.
**2. Apply it to the question:** In “care economy,” “care” modifies “economy” by specifying its type. In the other sentences, “care” is a verb. Thus A is the intended adjectival-role answer.
**Answer: A — She says we are part of the care economy..**
**Convention note:** More precisely, many modern grammars classify “care” here as an attributive noun/noun adjunct, rather than an adjective as a word class. The question asks for its adjective-like modifying role.
A: **Correct:** “Care” modifies the following noun “economy.”
B: **Incorrect:** “Care” is the finite verb with subject “they.”
C: **Incorrect:** “Care” is the lexical verb following auxiliary “does.”
D: **Incorrect:** “Care” is the lexical verb after modal “won’t.”
In the following sentence, identify the nature of the adjective. The adjectives are underlined.
Racewalking is faster than normal walking.
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Adjunctive, imaginative
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Innovative, attributive
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Predicative, attributive
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Predicative, indicative
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A predicative adjective follows a linking verb and describes the subject; an attributive adjective modifies a noun within its noun phrase.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Faster” follows “is” and predicates a comparative property of racewalking. “Normal” occurs before and modifies “walking.” The order is predicative, attributive.
**Answer: C — Predicative, attributive.**
A: **Incorrect:** These labels do not identify the two positions correctly.
B: **Incorrect:** “Innovative” is not the relevant syntactic function, though the second label fits.
C: **Correct:** It correctly labels the post-linking adjective and the pre-noun adjective.
D: **Incorrect:** The first label fits, but “indicative” is not the adjective-position label for “normal.”
Identify the adjectival clause in the following sentence and the noun it modifies.
After finishing her homework, which took several hours, she rewarded herself with a relaxing bubble
bath.
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Adjectival clause: she rewarded herself with a relaxing bubble bath, Noun:
bath
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Adjectival clause: which took several hours, Noun: homework
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Adjectival clause: she rewarded herself with a relaxing bubble bath, Noun:
bubble
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None of these
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** An adjectival/relative clause describes a noun and is commonly introduced by a relative pronoun.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Which took several hours” refers back to “homework.” The main clause is “she rewarded herself with a relaxing bubble bath.”
**Answer: B — Adjectival clause: which took several hours, Noun: homework.**
A: **Incorrect:** It selects the main clause rather than the relative clause.
B: **Correct:** It identifies the relative clause and its antecedent “homework.”
C: **Incorrect:** It again selects the main clause, and “bubble” is not the antecedent of “which.”
D: **Incorrect:** B supplies a valid relative-clause analysis.
In the sentence The dress looks expensive, ‘expensive’ is a predicative adjective.
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True
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False
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A predicative adjective describes the subject after a linking verb.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Looks” is a linking verb in “The dress looks expensive,” and “expensive” states the perceived quality of the dress.
**Answer: A — True.**
A: **Correct:** The adjective follows the linking verb and describes the dress.
B: **Incorrect:** It overlooks the adjective’s subject-complement position.
They are playing football. The passive form will be ___.
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Football is being played by them
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Football was played by them
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Football has been playing by them
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Football will be played by them
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** Present continuous passive uses am/is/are + being + past participle.
**2. Apply it to the question:** Move “football” into subject position and preserve the ongoing present event: “Football is being played by them.”
**Answer: A — Football is being played by them.**
A: **Correct:** It retains present progressive aspect in the passive.
B: **Incorrect:** It changes to past simple passive.
C: **Incorrect:** It is not a valid passive construction and changes the aspect.
D: **Incorrect:** It changes to future simple passive.
Identify the agent in the sentence “Adult mantises eat more or less everything that breathes and is
small enough to capture.”
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Everything that breathes
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Is small enough to capture
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Adult mantises
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None of these
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** An agent is the participant that performs the action.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The adult mantises do the eating. The phrase about everything that breathes and is small enough identifies what gets eaten, not the eater.
**Answer: C — Adult mantises.**
A: **Incorrect:** It identifies the affected objects of eating.
B: **Incorrect:** It is part of the description of possible prey.
C: **Correct:** Adult mantises perform the action “eat.”
D: **Incorrect:** C explicitly names the agent.
Choose the correct passive form of the following sentence.
“My friends saved an apple for me.”
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The apple my friends saved is for me
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An apple saved by my friends was for me
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An apple was saved for me by my friends
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My friends saved me an apple
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** Past simple passive uses was/were plus a past participle and preserves the original action and participants.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “An apple” becomes the singular subject; “saved” becomes “was saved.” Retain “for me” and express the agent as “by my friends.”
**Answer: C — An apple was saved for me by my friends.**
A: **Incorrect:** It makes a copular statement about a particular apple rather than directly passivizing the original event.
B: **Incorrect:** The main clause says that an apple “was for me”; “saved by my friends” is a reduced modifier rather than the main passive verb.
C: **Correct:** It is the direct past simple passive counterpart of the original sentence.
D: **Incorrect:** It remains active, with “my friends” as subject.
Identify the adjunct in the following sentence.
In the afternoons, we have a tea break.
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Tea break
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We have a tea break
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In the afternoons
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No adjunct
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** An adjunct is an optional clause modifier, often expressing time, place or manner.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “In the afternoons” supplies when the tea break occurs. Removing it leaves the complete clause “we have a tea break.”
**Answer: C — In the afternoons.**
A: **Incorrect:** It is the noun phrase serving as the object of “have.”
B: **Incorrect:** It is the main clause, not the optional time modifier.
C: **Correct:** It is the removable temporal prepositional phrase.
D: **Incorrect:** The introductory time phrase is an adjunct.
John’s teacher is the person whom we spoke to at the PTA meeting. Here the subordinate clause is ___
in nature.
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Nominal
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Adjectival
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Adverbial
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No Subordinate Clause
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A relative clause has an adjectival function when it modifies a noun.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Whom we spoke to at the PTA meeting” identifies “the person.” The clause therefore modifies a noun rather than acting as a noun or describing the time of the main event.
**Answer: B — Adjectival.**
A: **Incorrect:** It does not occupy a noun-phrase position by itself.
B: **Correct:** It modifies “person” as a relative clause.
C: **Incorrect:** The meeting phrase is inside the relative clause; the whole clause describes the person.
D: **Incorrect:** The whom-clause is explicitly subordinate.
The magic show that mesmerized people will be staged here next week. Here the relative pronoun is
____.
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That
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Will
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Here
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People
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A relative pronoun links a noun to a clause describing it.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “That” introduces “that mesmerized people” and refers to “the magic show.” It also functions as subject of “mesmerized.”
**Answer: A — That.**
A: **Correct:** It introduces the relative clause with “show” as antecedent.
B: **Incorrect:** It is the modal auxiliary in the main clause.
C: **Incorrect:** It is a place adverb.
D: **Incorrect:** It is the object of “mesmerized,” not a relative pronoun.
"He studied hard for the test, so he scored well."
This sentence is of the type:
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Simple
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Compound
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Complex
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** Coordinating “so” can join two independent clauses while expressing a result.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “He studied hard for the test” and “he scored well” each stand alone. Here “so” coordinates them, making a compound sentence.
**Answer: B — Compound.**
A: **Incorrect:** There are two complete clauses, not one.
B: **Correct:** Two independent clauses are linked by coordinating “so.”
C: **Incorrect:** There is no subordinate clause in this use of “so.”
The sky, which is generally blue, is grey now. The independent clause is _______.
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The sky, which is
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Which is generally blue
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Is grey now
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The sky is grey now
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** Remove a nonrestrictive relative clause to reveal the main independent clause.
**2. Apply it to the question:** Removing “which is generally blue” leaves “The sky is grey now,” a complete subject–predicate statement.
**Answer: D — The sky is grey now.**
A: **Incorrect:** It cuts off both the relative clause and the main predicate.
B: **Incorrect:** It is the dependent relative clause.
C: **Incorrect:** It lacks the main subject “the sky.”
D: **Correct:** It contains the main subject and complete main predicate.
State true or false. There is no dependent clause in the sentence “Since the cat is meowing, the dog
is barking.”
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True
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False
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** A clause introduced by subordinating “since” is dependent, whether it supplies a reason or a time relationship.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “Since the cat is meowing” depends on the main clause “the dog is barking.” Therefore the claim that there is no dependent clause is false.
**Answer: B — False.**
A: **Incorrect:** It ignores the subordinate clause introduced by “since.”
B: **Correct:** A since-clause is present, so the statement is false.
Choose the correct modal verb to fill in the blank. See the hint or context provided and choose
only the most appropriate option to fill the blank.
Why _____ I concede my seat to her?
Hint: A wh-question that denies the relevance of a social requirement
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Would
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Could
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Should
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Should” expresses an obligation or socially expected action; “Why should I…?” can challenge that expectation.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The hint asks for a rhetorical question denying a social requirement. “Why should I concede my seat to her?” asks why the speaker ought to do so.
**Answer: C — Should.**
A: **Incorrect:** It normally asks about willingness or a hypothetical action, less directly the social obligation.
B: **Incorrect:** It usually asks about ability or possibility, not the expectation being challenged.
C: **Correct:** It directly questions the claimed obligation.
In the following sentence, fill in the blank with the most appropriate modal verb.
The land is so dry, there _________ have been a drought.
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Must
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Must not
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Shall
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Should
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “Must have” plus a past participle expresses a strong deduction about the past.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The present evidence of very dry land leads the speaker to infer that a drought occurred: “there must have been a drought.”
**Answer: A — Must.**
A: **Correct:** It marks the strong inference from present evidence to a past event.
B: **Incorrect:** It conflicts with the evidence by suggesting the drought did not occur; “can’t have” is also the usual negative deduction form.
C: **Incorrect:** “Shall have” does not express this inference about a past drought.
D: **Incorrect:** “Should have” usually suggests expectation or an unfulfilled obligation, rather than the intended strong deduction.
Choose the correct modal verb to fill in the blank. See the hint or context provided and choose
only the most appropriate option to fill the blank.
If the candidates or their agents have any specific complaint or problem regarding the conduct of
elections they _____ bring the same to the notice of the Observer appointed by the Election
Commission at the polling booth.
Hint: To show that an authoritative body is granting formal permission to someone to do
something
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Should
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Must
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Will
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May
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** “May” is a standard modal for formally granting permission.
**2. Apply it to the question:** The election authority permits candidates or agents to bring complaints to the observer; it is not stating a compulsory duty.
**Answer: D — May.**
A: **Incorrect:** It would advise or recommend the action, rather than explicitly permit it.
B: **Incorrect:** It would make the action obligatory.
C: **Incorrect:** It would predict or state future action.
D: **Correct:** It grants the formal permission specified in the hint.
Choose the most appropriate form of asking for permission in a formal situation from the
following.
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May I borrow your pen please?
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Can I borrow your pen?
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Both May I borrow your pen please? and Can I borrow your pen?
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I might borrow your pen
**Business Analytics**
**Section Id :** 640653105947
**Section Number :** 14
**Section type :** Online
**Mandatory or Optional :** Mandatory
**Number of Questions :** 7
**Number of Questions to be attempted :** 7
**Section Marks :** 20
**Display Number Panel :** Yes
**Section Negative Marks :** 0
**Group All Questions :** No
**Enable Mark as Answered Mark for Review and**
No
**Clear Response :**
**Section Maximum Duration :** 0
**Section Minimum Duration :** 0
**Section Time In :** Minutes
**Maximum Instruction Time :** 0
Published solution
**1. Identify the rule or meaning:** In conventional formal requests, “May I…?” is a polite way to seek permission.
**2. Apply it to the question:** “May I borrow your pen please?” combines the formal permission modal with a politeness marker, making it the best match for the stated register.
**Answer: A — May I borrow your pen please?.**
**Convention note:** “Can I…?” is not inherently incorrect or rude; the difference here concerns the requested formal register.
A: **Correct:** It is the most conventionally formal and explicitly polite option.
B: **Incorrect:** It is a normal permission request, but less formal than A in this comparison.
C: **Incorrect:** Both can ask permission, but the question asks for the most appropriate formal wording.
D: **Incorrect:** It states a possibility rather than directly asking for permission.
