Jumbled Words and Sentences
JUMBLED WORDS
A group of letters which makes a sense is called a word.
In a jumbled word, the letters of the alphabet are not in order. They are in
mixed form. You have to arrange these letters to make a meaningful word.
Look at the following examples.
1.YAPTMNE = PAYMENT
2.ERATS = TEARS
3.THIWUTO = WITHOUT
4.DNVAAEC = ADVANCE
5.PPSLYU = SUPPLY
Sentence and Kinds of Sentences
A group of words which makes a sense is called a sentence.
There are mainly five kinds of sentences.
1.Assertive sentence: A sentence that states or declares
something is called an assertive or declarative sentence.
For example: I go to school by bus.
2.Interrogative sentence: A sentence that asks a question is
called a question or an interrogative sentence.
For example: What time did you come?
3.Imperative sentence: A sentence that expresses a command,
request, suggestion, order or advice is called an imperative sentence.
For example: Keep silence.
4.Exclamatory sentence: A sentence that expresses some strong
feelings or emotions such as joy, sorrow, surprise or contempt is called an
exclamatory sentence.
For example: How beautiful the flower
is!
5.Optative sentence: A sentence which expresses wish, desire or
pray is called an optative sentence.
For example: May God bless you!
Jumbled Sentences
In a jumbled sentence, the words are not in order. They
are in mixed form. You have to arrange these words to make a meaningful
sentence.
Look at the following examples.
In the following questions, sentences have been divided
into six parts. The first and the last parts are numbered 1 and 6 and the
remaining four parts are named P, Q, R and S. While parts 1 and 6 are in order,
the remaining parts are jumbled. Rearrange the parts P, Q, R and S to form
meaningful sentences; remaining parts 1 and 6 are the beginning and end of the
sentence, respectively:
·Example 1
1.Many of the advanced countries
P. the exploration of their own masses
Q. present affluence by their
domination
R. of today have reached their
S. over other races and countries and
6. and their own natural resources.
(a) PQRS (b)
RQSP
(c) SQPR (d) QSPR
(e) None of these
Ans. (b)
·Example 2
1.In order to enable
P. their cropping pattern
Q. kisans to rationally determine more...
Antonyms/ Synonyms
The following is a list of common words along with their synonyms
(words with more or less similar meanings) and antonyms (words with more or
less opposite meanings) to help you tackle the vocabulary section of Synonyms
and Antonyms in your examination:
An object through which light
passes but people cannot see across clearly
translucent
6.
That which can be drunk
potable
7.
Belonging to one?s ancestors
ancestral
8.
A state of perfect balance
equilibrium
9.
A hater of women
Distinguishing between Facts and Opinions
Distinguishing between facts and opinions is related to thinking
and understanding of a student about the general facts. In this section we wall
differentiate between the facts and opinions and also find whether the opinions
follow the given facts or not. Some examples are given below to develop your
understanding of this topic.
1.Three sentences are given below you have to identify which
sentence is a fact and which is opinion.
I: It is faster to travel by
air from Delhi to Bombay
II: Delhi and Bombay are
connected by air services.
III: There is no other means of
communication between Delhi and Bombay.
Select the answer from the given
choices:
(a) I - fact II - opinion III - opinion
(b) I - opinion II - fact III - fact
(c) I - fact II - opinion III - fact
(d) I - fact II - fact III - opinion
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)
2.Three sentences are given below you have to identify which
sentence is a fact and which is opinion.
I: The devil can cite
scripture for his purpose.
II: Even an unscrupulous
person has some principles.
III: The real wisdom is to be
found in scriptures.
Select the answer from the given
choices:
(a) I-fact, II-opinion, III-opinion
(b) I-opinion, II-fact, III-fact
(c) I-fact, II-opinion, III-fact
(d) I-fact, II-fact, III-opinion
(e) None of these
Ans. (a)
3.Three sentences are given below you have to identify which
sentence is a fact and which is opinion.
I: A large section of
labourers in India is from unorganised field. Most of them earn meager or
uncertain wages and find only insufficient and small jobs.
II: India has made sufficient
progress in fundamental and pure sciences.
III: Productive sector of the
economy was neglected in the past.
Select the answer from the given
choices:
(a) I-fact, II-opinion, III-opinion
(b) I-opinion, II-fact, III-fact
(c) I-fact, II-opinion, III-fact
(d) more...
Analogy
Analogy means similarity. It can exist between any two
objects in a particular manner or it may be the case that the two objects are
related in the same way as the given objects are related.
Some examples are solved for you.
1.FOOD : HUNGRY :: ?
(a) Wine : Intoxication
(b) Water : River
(c) Rest : Weary
(d) Thought : Politics
(e) None of these
Ans. (a)
2.PROSCENIUM : STAGE :: ?
(a) Portico : House
(b) Linen : Bed
(c) Lamp : Table
(d) Compass : Needle
(e) None of these
Ans. (b)
3.EDITOR : NEWSPAPER :: ?
(a) Lecturer : University
(b) Teacher : School
(c) Nurse : Hospital
(d) Architect : Design
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)
4.OPENING : INAUGURATION :: ?
(a) Memory : Commemoration
(b) Display : Exhibition
(c) Admission : Initiation
(d) Solemn : Vestments
(e) None of
these
Ans. (b)
5.JEWELLER : ORNAMENT :: ?
(a) Doctor : Patients
(b) Mechanic : Repair
(c) Artisan : Goldsmith
(d) Architect : Plans
(e) None of these
Ans. (d)
Classification
Study the following examples.
Direction (1 - 5): In this type of
classification, four words are given out of which three are almost same in
matter or meaning and only one word is different from the common four. One has
to find out the word which is different from the rest.
1.(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Friend
(d) Brother
(e) None of these
Ans. (c) All others are blood relations.
2.(a) Water
(b) Jelly
(c) Lemonade
(d) Coffee
(e) None of these
Ans. (b) All other are liquids.
3.(a) Ornate
(b) Pleasant
(c) Decorate
(d) Beautify
(e) None of these
Ans. (b) All other words have the same meaning.
4.(a) Pond
(b) River
(c) Stream
(d) Brook
(e) None of these
Ans. (a) All others are running forms of water.
Comprehensions Based on Stanza
Study the following examples.
·Example 1
There was time indeed
they used to shake hands with their
hearts;
but that?s gone, son.
Now they shake hands without hearts
while their left hands search
my empty pockets.
Choose the correct alternative for each
question.
1.Who wrote the lines given above?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Gabriel Okara
(e) None of these
2.People in the past used to shake hands_____.
(a) sincerely
(b) friendly and cordially
(c) formally
(d) All of these
(e) None of these
3.The handshake of modern people ______.
(a) shows sincerity
(b) is full of warmth
(c) has become just a ritual
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) None of these
4.The left hands of modern people are trying ______ them with whom
they are having handshake with right hands.
(a) to rob
(b) to kill
(c) to harm
(d) All of these
(e) None of these
5.According to the poet, what is gone?
(a) Truthfulness in human relations
(b) Sincerity of feelings
(c) Feeling of cordinality and
friendship
(d) All of the above
(e) None of these
·Example 2
So, I have learned many things, son.
I have learned to wear many faces
like dresses - homeface,
office face, street face, host face,
cocktail face, with all their
conforming smiles
like a fixed portrait smile.
Choose the correct alternative for
each question.
1.What has the poet learnt?
(a) To smile artificially
(b) To make false expressions on the
face
(c) Hypocrisy
(d) All of the above
(e) None of these
2.By ?wearing faces? the poet means _______.
(a) putting on different masks
(b) painting faces
(c) making false expressions on the
face
(d) All of
these
(e) None of these
3.How does the poet smile now?
(a) Artificially (b)
Heartily
(c) Mockingly (d) All
of these
(e) None of these
4.The poet puts on _______ while welcoming guests at his home,
(a) officeface (b)
cocktailface
(c) homeface (d)
hostface
(e) None of these
5.Why do the ?conforming smiles? look like a ?fixed portrait smile?
to the poet?
(a) Because they don't spring from
heart
(b) Because they are formal and
artificial
(c) Because they are false expressions
(d) All of these
(e) None of these
Answer
Comprehensions Based on
Story/Incident
Study the following examples.
·Example 1
The shoemaker, for ages
suffered from a bad heart condition and five years ago, after an attack, it had
appeared as though he would have either to sacrifice his business upon the
auction block and live on a pittance thereafter or put himself at the mercy of unscrupulous
employees who would in the end probably ruin him. But just at the moment of his
darkest despair, this Polish refugee, Sobel appeared one night from the street
and begged for work. He was a stocky man, poorly dressed, with a bald head, a
severely pain face and soft blue eyes prone to tears over the sad books he
read. Though he confessed he knew nothing of shoe-making, he said he was apt
and would work for very little if Feld taught him the trade. Feld took him on
and within six weeks the refugee rebuilt as good a shoe as he, and not long
thereafter expertly ran the business for the shoemaker. Feld could trust him
with anything, and did frequently, going home after an hour or two at the
store, leaving all the money in the till knowing Sobel would guard every cent of
it. The amazing thing was the he demanded so little. His wants were few, in
money he was not interested -in nothing but books, it seemed -which he one by
one lent to Feld?s daughter Miriam together with his profuse queer written
comments, manufactured during his lonely evenings, which his daughter, from her
fourteenth year, read page by sanctified page.Feld?s conscience bothered
him for not insisting that his assistant accept a better wage than he was
getting, though Feld had honestly told him he could earn a handsome salary if
he worked elsewhere, or maybe opened a place of his own. But the assistant
answered, somewhat ungraciously, that he was not interested in going elsewhere.
Feld frequently asked himself what kept him there, why did he stay? He finally
told himself that the man no doubt because of his terrible experiences as
refugee, was afraid of the world.
1.After his heart attack Feld feared that he would have to:
(a) take in several employees to help him in the work.
(b) teach his daughter, Miriam, the trade of shoe-making.
(c) give up the business immediately and rest in a
hospital.
(d) sell his business upon auction block and live as a
poor man,
(e) None of these
2.The refugee begged for work for a pittance:
(a) because he confessed that he knew nothing of
shoe-making,
(b) because he admitted that he was a
poor man.
(c) because he clearly said that he belonged to Poland.
(d) because he declared that he was man more...
Comprehensions Based on General Topics
Study the following examples.
·Example 1
Direction: Read the following passage carefully
and answer the questions that follow.
I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over
rather ruefully It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round shape, hard
and much the worse to wear. The lining had been made of red silk, but was a
good deal discoloured. There was no maker?s name but the initials A. W. were
scrawled on one side. It was pierced in the brim for a hat securer, but the
elastic was missing. For the rest, it was cracked, exceedingly dusty and
spotted in several places, although there seemed to have been some attempt to
hide the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink.
?I can see nothing,? said I, handing it back to my friend.
?On the contrary Sameer you can see everything. You fail
however to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your
inferences.?
1.The author was too ____ in drawing his inferences.
(a) weak (b)
daring
(c) fearless (d)
calm
(e) None of these
2.Taking the tattered object in his hands, the author turned it
?????.
(a) gleefully (b)
mournfully
(c) painfully (d)
hatefully
(e) None of these
3.The part missing in the hat was the _____.
(a) brim (b)
top
(c) bottom (d)
elastic
(e) None of these
4.Sameer fails to _____.
(a) scrutinise (b)
comprehend
(c) conclude (d)
recall
(e) None of these
5.At certain places, the hat was smeared with:
(a) Red hue (b)
Dust
(c) Ink (d)
Discoloured patterns
(e) None of these
·Example 2
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and
answer the questions that follow.
When grass becomes merely ?a lawn.? it is in danger of
becoming what that sour economic Puritan Thorstein Veblen said it always was,
namely a ?status symbol?, a display of conspicuous expenditure meant to
demonstrate that its owner can afford to waste in mere display what might be
used to produce wheat or vegetables. Veblen was wrong because a lawn can also
demonstrate a great truth which economists are prone to forget, namely, that
beauty may be its own excuse for being. But a lawn can be what he called it,
and there is no greater paradox than this transformation of the humblest and most
unshowy of green things into a status symbol. Of course, neither your lawn nor mine
(when in Connecticut I had one) is that. But just to be sure that it isn't, a
salutary experience can be had if more...
Grammar (All topics)
? Noun
? Pronoun
? Verb
? Adverb
? Conjuction
? Tense
? Voice
? Narration
? Modals
? Clauses
? Determiners
Noun
A noun is a word used as the names of a person, place, animal or thing.
1.Common Noun
2.Proper Noun
3.Abstract Noun
4.Collective Noun
1.Common Noun:
A common noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind.
2.Proper Noun:
A proper noun is the name of some particular person or place.
3.Abstract Noun:
An abstract noun is usually the name of a quality, action or state considered apart from the object to which it belongs, such as
quality- goodness, darkness, honesty, bravery
action- theft, movement, hatred
state- boyhood, slavery, death, poverty
4.Collective Noun
A collective noun is the name of a number (or collection) of persons, animal or things taken together and spoken of as one whole, such as crowd, team, jury, family, parliament, committee etc.
Look at the following sentences.
(i) Calcutta is a town.
(ii) India is a country.
(iii) Ashoka was a wise king.
·?Calcutta? is a proper noun, while ?town? is a common noun
·?India is a proper noun, while ?country? is a common noun.
·In the third sentence, the noun ?Ashoka? refers to a particular king, so we call ?Ashoka? a proper noun and king a common noun.
·Another classification of nouns is whether they are ?countable? or ?uncountable?.
·Countable nouns are the names of objects, people, animals and things, etc that we can count. For example: apple, girl, copy, pen, doctor
·Uncountable nouns are the names of things which we cannot count.
For example: milk, oil, honesty, silver, sugar, rice
· more...
