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.