PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-72

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the given question, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (1), (2), (3) and (4) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (5) i.e., “No correction required”.

Question No : 1

Some Syrian locals have reported that Kurdish fighters are coming up from Turkey and that the PYD entertains policies that don’t t the idea of a democratic oasis the group claims to support.

(1) Coming out

(2) Coming through

(3) Coming under

(4) Coming over

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

Rumors have been flicking through about how Erdoğan’s AKP and the MHP will form a government with their newly claimed electoral victory

(1) Flicking over

(2) Flinging out

(3) Floating around

(4) Flooding into

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

The Turkish military bombarded the town with support from Syrian opposition groups. Russia withdrew its own forces from the region, and despite condemnations from the Syrian government and calls back restraint from the U.S. Department of Defense.

(1) Calls by

(2) Calls for

(3) Calls away

(4) Calls forth

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

This policy of internal and regional peace has started to show its cracks with the Turkish government’s recent foray into Syria, an effort to stamp on militant Kurdish groups operating to an effect it sees as a threat to national security.

(1) Stake out

(2) Stamp upon

(3) Stammer out

(4) Stamp out

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

If anyone believes that Trump’s goal at Brussels is to squeeze NATO members to cook up more of their national budgets for defense to meet the prescribed 2% GDP allocation.

(1) Cough up

(2) Cop off with

(3) Cordon off

(4) Couch in

(5) No correction required

Question No : 6

If anyone believes that Trump’s goal at Brussels is to squeeze NATO members to cook up more of their national budgets for defense to meet the prescribed 2% GDP allocation.

(1) Cough up

(2) Cop off with

(3) Cordon off

(4) Couch in

(5) No correction required