Question
Given below are sentences with an error in each. The
error is in one part of the sentence. Below each sentence are given the options containing the parts of the sentences. Choose the option which contains the error. The company's decision to downsize the workforce have caused a lot of anxiety among the employees.Solution
"have caused" → "has caused": The subject "decision" is singular, so the verb should be the singular form "has" instead of "have."
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
He said to him, "Is your name not Ahmed?"
His behaviour embarrasses me.
Select the option which correctly converts the given sentence into indirect speech.
I said, "Let us not jump to a conclusion but wait till we get...
Grandfather will say, 'I don't like this juice'.
Anand requested to me to wait there till he returned.
Choose the option that is the indirect form of the sentence.
“Please bring me a cup of coffee,” Shakila said to the waiter.
Mr. Mathur said to me, ‘How is your father?’
Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
Why did the editor give such a rude comment?
Select the correct indirect/direct speech for the given sentence
The pilgrim said to the priest, “saint may I come in?”
...I said to the taxi driver, "You must be crazy to drive so fast."
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