In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/ Phrase.
It takes a month of Sundays to chop all that wood.
In the following questions, a sentence / part of the sentence printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence / part of the sentence at (a), (b) and (c) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (d).
He reached the village just when the sun was setting.
The gypsies had left the village a few days ago.
When we bought the house, we could tell that it was a large, new, compact, tinted house.
Migrant workers can be seen working on many of the building places in New Delhi.
“Indian English” has come of age and has been accepted as a legitimate category the world over.
If they were knowing about the crabs, they would not have decided to picnic there.
A shrewd man could only see through the trick.
As soon as I reached my house, I opened my cupboard.