Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence

Practice Questions to select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence for SSC CGL, CHSL, CPO, MTS, JE, Steno, GD Competitive Exams.

Q.1: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.
After finishing high school, I plan to pursuing law.

1. No substitution
2. plan to pursue
3. plan in pursue
4. plan to pursuing

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2. plan to pursue

Q.2: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in below sentence.
Our guests arrived; they are sitting in the garden.

1. shall arrive
2. have arrived
3. are arriving
4. might arrive

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2. have arrived

Q.3: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
He was looking into his book for the last two hours but couldn’t find it.

1. looking down on his book
2. looking above his book
3. looking for his book
4. looking after his book

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3. looking for his book

Q.4: Select the most appropriate word segment for the underlined word in the given sentence.
Pintu has been advised to reduce smoking by his family doctor.
1. cut down
2. less down
3. lower down
4. up down

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1. cut down

Q.5: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in following sentence.
Rajan is having three brothers and three sisters.

1.Rajan has been having
2. Rajan has
3. Rajan was having
4. Rajan having

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2. Rajan has

Q.6: Choose the option that can substitute the underlined segment correctly and complete the meaning of the sentence.
Navika is a superb and impressive child in her class.

1.Splendid
2. Brilliant
3. Dazzing
4. Vivid

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2. Brilliant

Q.7: Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom that can be substituted in the following sentence.
He was murdered in cold blood.

1.in cold weather
2. deliberately
3. when blood was cold
4. regretfully

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2. deliberately

Q.8: Parts of the following sentence have been underlined and given as options. Select the option that contains as error.
Has Gita any previous knowledge of work with junior colleagues?

1.with
2. Has
3. any
4. work

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4. work

Q.9: Choose the most appropriate meaning of the underlined word in given sentence.
Even though Margaret had already eaten a large meal, she could not resist eating two slices of the delectable pie.

1. State
2. Delicious
3. Nutritious
4. Rotten

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2. Delicious

Q.10: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in below sentence.
The new shop that opened last week are hardly sufficient stock of the products that it advertised about.

1. hardly hadn’t
2. hardly had
3. hardly is having
4. is had

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2. hardly had

Q.11: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Abu said that he saw the picture.

1. he has seen the picture
2. he will have seen the picture
3. he would have seen the picture
4. he had seen the picture

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4. he had seen the picture

Q.12 : Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
I used to swim across the river when I was young.

1. will swim across
2. was swimming across
3. could swim across
4. can swim across

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3. could swim across

Q.13: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Last before year, Shirley got very good grades.

1. The last year before
2. Before last year
3. The year before last
4. Before year last

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3. The year before last

Q.14: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
I am been working here for the past ten years.

1. have been working here
2. is been working here
3. was been working here
4. had been working here

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1. have been working here

Q.15: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
When I reached home late, I found my children waiting on me.

1. waiting with me
2. waiting by me
3. waiting about me
4. waiting for me

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4. waiting for me

Q.16: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Oscar is the most prestigious award which is introduced to good actors in that year.

1. rewarded to good
2. nominated to fine
3. awarded to best
4. attached to fine

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3. awarded to best

Q.17: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Not only is my brother intelligent though hard working too.

1. or hard working
2. but hard working
3. so hard working
4. yet hard working

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2. but hard working

Q.18: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
During my Goa tour, I had visited beaches in Vasco, Baga and Vagator.

1. visited
2. have visited
3. was visited
4. had visited

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1. visited

Q.19: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Don’t disturb the boy, he prepares for his examination.

1. prepared
2. is preparing
3. was preparing
4. will be preparing

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2. is preparing

Q.20: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
Have you want me to come with you to the dentist ?

1. Has you wanted me
2. No substitution
3. Had you want me
4. Do you want me

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4. Do you want me

Q.21: Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’.
Rita will never have changed her job if she would have been promoted.

1. No substitution
2. should never have
3. would never have
4. shall never have

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3. would never have
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