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Complete the following paragraph by filling in the blanks with the help of given options:

There is a general belief (a)……….students that (b)……….who write long sentences get (c)………. marks.


(a) (i) in (ii) of (iii) among (iv) between


(b) (i) they (ii) those (iii) all (iv) them


(c) (i) more (ii) many (iii) most (iv) much

(a) (iii)among


‘Among’ is a preposition used here to denote as being part of a large set of members.


(b) (ii) those


‘Those’ is a pronoun often used as a plural form of ‘that’. Here it is used in con continuation to describe a previously mentioned thing.


(c) (i) more


‘More’ here is used an adverb to describe a greater extend of something, as a synonym for ‘better’.


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The following paragraph has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the error and its correction as shown in the example.

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Rearrange the following words and phrases into meaningful sentences. The first one

has been done as an example.


e.g., came/months/me/for eight/to teach/he


For eight months he came to teach me.


(a) algebra and/a week/me/geometry/twice/he taught


(b) very poor/subjects/I was/in these/earlier


(c) very/ now / proficient/ have become/ in them/I