EngQuizzitive-6.2.4:Indefinte articles

You can download the printable format of this from the following link : Indefinite articles

Answers to the Quiz :

1. I’ll be back in an hour.
2. He bought a one room kitchen flat.
3. Let us have dinner. [no article required]
4. Sreedhar is a/the most intelligent student. [ ‘a most’ would mean very and ‘the most’ would mean the superlative degree of the adjective much]
5. I had a late lunch today. [we use ‘a’ when there is an adjective before nouns indicating meals]

Engquizzitive-6.1.4:The Greek Humours(quiz)

EngQuizzitive-6.1.4:The Greek Humours

You can download the printable version of the same from this link : The Greek humours

Solutions : 

1. He is remarkably sanguine about the problems involved.
2. On hearing this the regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and spread out his arms with a choleric gesture.
3. We acquainted him with the melancholic truth.
4. Our impressions of phlegmatic pace were reinforced, upon arriving, when no one seemed to be in any rush to greet us.
5. After the sanguinary battle of Kalinga Ashoka decided to adopt Buddhism.

Engquizzitive-6.1.3

Usage Based Questions : Choose the appropriate question type

For the last couple of years CAT has emphasised more on the usage of words rather than only word meanings. Following are the various usage based questions we have seen in CAT for the last couple of years :

• Fill in the blanks (double blanks)
• Multiple Usage (more about these a bit later)
• Choose the appropriate word

This post focuses more on the third type : Choose the appropriate word

A typical question in this type would look like below :

This question type was introduced in CAT in 2007 and since then has been an integral part of the paper. These question types evaluate the usage of two types of words :

• homophones : check this link to know more about homophones : http://wp.me/p1ceFL-1xl
• misused words : [eg. older/elder,uninterested/disinterested]

These questions are best solved by eliminating the options , but if they do come as non-MCQ then knowing the meanings of the words is the only way out.

To be able to solve these questions it is important for a student to go through a list of homophones and misused words. It would help to go through this list on regular basis and add to it any other word pairs that you come across.

As a starting point you can go through this list on homophones : homophones

Hope this helps !!!!