Exercises on phrases Part 2

Which of the phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentences to make it grammatically correct? if the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required mark 5 as answer

1. Although smoking is banned in public places, one often finds a flagrant violation of the rules.
1.  fragrant violation of the rules
2. flagrantly violation of the rules
3. fragmentary violation of the rules
4. flippant violation of the rules
5. No correction required
2. We should not allow mercy killing to be misused because the chances of its misuse are undoubted high
1. is undoubtedly high
2. are undoubtedly high
3. is indoubtedly high
4. is redoubtably high
5. No correction required
3. Generic engineering should be used for migrating pain and suffering
1. modulating pain and suffering
2. marshalling pain and suffering
3. moderating pain and suffering
4. mitigating pain and suffering
5. No correction required
4. The earlier you reach the station , more the chances to catch the train
1. the more the chances
2. most the chances
3. the good the chances
4. the most the chances
5. No correction required
5. Air pollution caused especially by remission of poisonous gases has been linked to cancer and asthma
1. emulsion of poisonous gases
2. revulsion of poisonous gases
3. emission of poisonous gas
4. emergence of poisonous gases
5. No correction required
6. That was a scene of overwhelming beauty
1. overwhelmingly beauty
2. overwhelming beautiful
3. overwhelm beauty
4. overwhelmed beauty
5. No correction required
7. The writer's imaginative empathy with his subject is certainly laudable.
1. sympathy with
2. pity with
3. empathy with
4. sympathy for
5. No correction required
8. Democracy is the government off the people, buy the people for the people
1. of the people, buy the people
2. of the peoples, by the peoples
3. of the people, by the people
4. of people, by people
5. No correction required
9. No efforts should be spared by administrators to raise the standard of living of citizens
1. to realise the standard of living
2. to raise the standard of living
3. to develop the standard of life
4. to raise up the standard of living
5. No correction required
10. Technology has created newly and extraordinarily effective means of destruction
1. new and extraordinarily effect
2. new and extraordinarily effective mean
3. new and extraordinarily effective means
4. new and extraordinary effective means
5. No correction required
11. We look forward to meet the holy man
1. to met the holy man
2. to meeting the holy man
3. to have met the holy man
4. for meeting the holy man
5. No correction required
12. The patient is a little more better today than he was yesterday.
1. little good
2. little much better
3. little better
4. little more good
5. No correction required
13. If education is the transmission of civilisation, we are unquestionably progressing
1. unquestiongly progressing
2. having unquestioning progress
3. unquestioned progress
4. unreasonably progressing
5. No correction required
14. Our principal used to take cohesive measures to maintain discipline in the college
1. coherent measures
2. coercive measures
3. complicated measures
4. collateral measures
5. No correction required
15. She is over head and shoulders in love with them
1. head over heals
2. over head and heals
3. out and out
4. over excessively
5. No correction required
16. He says his passport has been irrecoverable lost
1. has been irrecoverably lost
2. has been unrecoverably lost
3. has been irrecoverably loss
4. has irrecoverably lost
5. No correction required
17. Fighting a war with nuclear weapons is an in conceivable foolish idea.
1. an unconceivable foolish idea
2. an inconceivably foolish idea
3. an inversely foolish idea
4. an inveterately foolish idea
5. No correction required
18. The minister buttoned his lips when he was asked about his involvement in the scandal
1.  buttoned off
2. clipped his lips
3. closed his lips
4. buttoned his mouth
5. No correction required
19. Many old customs has fallen into abeyance now
1. fell into abeyance
2. felled into abuse
3. been falling into misuse
4. misused
5. No correction required
20. There is bickering in our family, but we don't wand anybody to fish in troubled water.
1. flash in trouble
2. to fish in troubled waters
3. catch fish
4. to clean troubled waters
5. No correction required

Answers

1. 5
2. 2
3. 4
4. 1
5. 3
6. 5
7. 5
8. 3
9. 2
10. 3
11. 2
12. 3
13. 5
14. 1
15. 1
16. 1
17. 2
18. 5
19. 3
20. 2