DIRECTIONS (Qs. 11-20): In the following questions, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked a, b, c and d. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar Idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.
Q11. (a) Sita claimed that she had
(b) not only gone to Delhi
(c) but also to Agra
(d) and had seen the Taj Mahal
Q12. (a) The advertisement for the new detergent
(b) claimed that it was as effective
(c) if not more than
(d) washing soap in removing dirt from clothes
Q13. (a) If you would have come earlier
(b) there would have been enough time
(c) for us to go to the movie
(d) which has been running to full-houses
Q14. (a) Nalini found it difficult
(b) to manage single-handedly the three children
(c) who were always quarrelling
(d) between themselves
Q15. (a) Did he say he will
(b) bring the book tomorrow?
(c) He has been promising so
(d) for the past seven days
Q16. (a) The cost of food grains have increased
(b) so rapidly during the last two years
(c) that salaried classes find it difficult
(d) to save any part of their income
Q17. (a) The train is unusually late today
(b) for it has been announced just now
(c) that it will arrive in a hour
(d) on platform number three
Q18. (a) Fluosol is a transparency liquid
(b) that very much resembles water
(c) but in fact is twice
(d) as dense as water
Q19. (a) Along the northern border of India
(b) is seen the Himalayas
(c) tall, mighty and majestic
(d) in their unique splendour
Q20. (a) The next generation of commercial airplanes
(b) are expected to be faster
(c) less fuel-thirsty and
(d) more fully computerized than the present one