khushwant singh one too is option 4.
Consummate is like the perfect one. so the other one may be implied.
No, I guess I am wrong. It cannot be extricate.
But out of these options, I guess I'll go with 4 which may mean 'loose' in some context.
option 4 ?
@dreamz007 said:2 > Khushwant Singh has been titled as an ____________ writer. But critics at times criticized him for writing in a ___________ manner.1. sapient, compunction2. mercenary, excursive3. amorous, carnal4. consummate, extricate
Is It 4 ?
@thePANDA Hey Brother there is an 'an' before the ___ and same is the case in the end. If you are using 'extricate' don't you think that we should use 'an; before it?
The team of 25 scientists from NASA, who arrived in Kathmandu on SAturday on a research mission, includes doctors, pilots and scientists.
is this sentence correct ??
@sunny1987 seems like the correct one..but the catch here is "Subject" which is 'The Team..' so it should be followed by 'which arrived...' instead of 'who arrived..'
hence it's incorrect! what say?
Hi Puys,
I am stuck with the following sentence:
It's better to be fat and fit than thin and sedentary for overall health and well being.
SHOULD IT NOT BE :
It's better to be fat and fit than "to be" thin and sedentary for overall health and well being.
Is my answer wrong??
Please Help !!!
@dreamz007 , Having read Khushwant Singh's novels as well as some of his equally popular joke books, i think the answer should be C)amorous and carnal 
@sunny1987 said: The team of 25 scientists from NASA, who arrived in Kathmandu on SAturday on a research mission, includes doctors, pilots and scientists. is this sentence correct ??
shud not it be the team of 25 scientists from NASA, which arrived ,,,, because the pronoun used here is to refer to the team >??
@spectramind07
Plz help:
Plagued by injuries, tennis celebrity Tracy Austin, who won the Italian and U.S. Opens at age 16 in 1979, sat out the years from :
IMO, it should be "who had the .." . As per the rule of tense about two past tenses. It should take past perfect tense for the earlier even and simple past for the latter.
Plz correct me
Plz help:
Plagued by injuries, tennis celebrity Tracy Austin, who won the Italian and U.S. Opens at age 16 in 1979, sat out the years from :
IMO, it should be "who had the .." . As per the rule of tense about two past tenses. It should take past perfect tense for the earlier even and simple past for the latter.
Plz correct me
@dreamz007
3. amorous, carnal
He makes his writing easily comprehensible by using a very _______ language. But at times his writings seem very ______.
1. uncomplicated, pedestrian
2 > Khushwant Singh has been titled as an ____________ writer. But critics at times criticized him for writing in a ___________ manner.3. amorous, carnal
@amresh_maverick said: @spectramind07Plz help:Plagued by injuries, tennis celebrity Tracy Austin, who won the Italian and U.S. Opens at age 16 in 1979, sat out the years from :IMO, it should be "who had the .." . As per the rule of tense about two past tenses. It should take past perfect tense for the earlier even and simple past for the latter.Plz correct me
no, we dont need perfect aspect.
1. When we write :
I had a book - its a simple past and not past perfect.
all perfect aspect are in the form - have/had/has + participle.
2. tense is the single most difficult topic for a non native speakers. if you are, then read number of articles from "the economist", "wall street journal", "new york times"...
here, we dont need past perfect. refer below for more general treatment :
a. show the sequence of two action. When the sequence is clear by the meaning, then there is no need to use perfect tense.
b. an action that started in the past but continue to the time frame of the sentence. Or an action that took place in the past, but the effect still persist in the time frame of the sentence.
now, you would easily know why there is no need of past perfect as there is no sequence to be clarified here.
this is not all -- consider this two sentence :
Within 10 years after my retirement, I had finished all my savings. - conventionally, it means that I expected my savings to last for 10 years, but finished before that.
Within 10 years after my retirement, I finished all my savings. - The "expectation" doesnt comes here.
Within 10 years after my retirement, I finished all my savings. - The "expectation" doesnt comes here.
tenses are much more complicated than one can even think... !!!
hope this helps !!
@maniDcrazyboy : i think that to be is not for fat and fit. therefore (fat and fit ) and thin and sedentary are parallel . Correct me I am wrong
He makes his writing easily comprehensible by using a very _______ language. But at times his writings seem very ______.
Has to be otion 1???
@dreamz007 i'll go with d 1st option...
2 > Khushwant Singh has been titled as an ____________ writer. But critics at times criticized him for writing in a ___________ manner.
1. sapient, compunction
The sentences are followed by options that indicate the words, which may be selected to correctly complete the set of sentences. From the options given, choose the most appropriate one.
- The most important perquisite (A) / prerequisite (B) of the job is health insurance.
- During the hearings the witness was willing to prevaricate (A) / procrastinate (B) in order to protect his friend.
- While sleeping he had a presentiment (A) / premonition (B) that he would soon be offered a new job.
- The precipitous (A) / precipitate (B) cover-up was botched and the swindlers were caught.
- He had ambivalent (A) / ambiguous (B) feelings toward the handbook; sometimes it helped; sometimes it did not.