SSC CGL Tier-2 8th August 2022 English

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order forming a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. I had reached the most exciting part of my Agatha Christie novel.
B. He was presently gruelling the Duchess seated in the arm chair.
C. Hercule Poirot had managed to get together all his suspects in one room and in his great style was cornering them into confession.
D. She had become extremely nervous and was on the verge of a breakdown.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
forty winks

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order forming a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Miss Tredgold rapped on the door twice with her gloved knuckle.
B. A few moments passed before the door opened to reveal a man in grey sweater and blue jeans.
C. Florentyna stood by her side, silent for the first time since leaving school.
D.At last they came to a halt outside a newly painted red door which displayed the number 118.

Select the most appropriate active form of the given sentence.
Rani’s car is twelve years old but it has not been used much.

Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘no improvement required’.
Learning a poem by heart is meaningless if you do not understand it.

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No Improvement’.
He is interested neither in business or on the job.

Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.
The policeman told the boys that they could not park their car there.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
Who could have made such a silly mistake?

Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.
“Don’t be late tomorrow morning,” my mother said to me.

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No Improvement’.
Many battles was fought on the soil of India.