Friday, March 28, 2008

SC's Question number - 777 , 778

777). The man was always aware, sometimes proudly and sometimes resentfully, that he was a small-town Midwesterner who was thrust into a world that was dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than him.

(A) who was thrust into a world that was dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than him

(B) who had been thrust into a world that was dominated by more wealthy, educated, and polished people than him

(C) who had been thrust into a world dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and people more polished than he was

(D) thrust into a world dominated by more wealthy, educated, and polished people than him

(E) thrust into a world dominated by wealthier, better-educated, and more polished people than he

778). The medieval scholar made almost no attempt to investigate the anatomy of plants, their mechanisms of growth, nor the ways where each was related to the other.

(A) nor the ways where each was related to the other

(B) nor how each was related to some other

(C) or the way where one is related to the next

(D) or the ways in which they are related to one another

(E) or the ways that each related to some other


Answers:

777). OA - E

A, B, D - incorrect - use of him is wrong - Rule no 7. on link below
Pronoun Errors

C - incorrect - violating parallelism

778). OA - D

A, B - incorrect - use of nor - right idiomatic usage is neither X nor Y

C - incorrect - use of where

E - incorrect - awkward

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