Question
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. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any). Somehow he managed to make one of the most/ professional, most disciplined and best funded /campaigns in history look as an enormous/ act of democratic participation.ÂSolution
The error is in the use of the preposition "as."Â When someone is describing how something appears or seems, the correct phrase is "look like," not "look as." The word "like" is used for comparison with a noun, while "as" is used for comparison with a clause or to describe a role.
An idiom/phrase is given in bold. Following this idiom/phrase are given three sentences, which use the given idiom/phrase. The idiom/phrase may or may ...
The manager was on the ball during the crisis, handling everything swiftly and effectively.
Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom.
We need to iron out the differences between us.
No community is likely to sell the cat by making gratuitous concessions on this issue.
Doozy
"After months of struggling with the project, the team finally made significant progress and feels they are out of the woods. "
Press ahead
To bring to the book
Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To be on the same page
Keep body and soul together
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