English Language: Evidence and Grammar Control
English Language carries 40 questions: reading comprehension, error detection, sentence improvement, fillers, cloze test, para jumbles and vocabulary. The Hindi option mirrors this with गद्यांश, रिक्त स्थान, त्रुटि पहचान and वाक्य क्रम. Both versions test the same skills: evidence from the passage, grammar control and context-based word choice.
Core rules
- RC: read the questions first, then locate each answer in the passage. Choose what the text supports, not what general knowledge suggests.
- Subject-verb agreement: "each", "every" and "one of" take a singular verb; the noun after "of" is plural.
- Parallelism: "not only ... but also", "either ... or" and "neither ... nor" must join matching grammatical forms.
- Tense: "since/for" with present perfect; past perfect for the earlier of two past actions.
- Cloze: use collocation and sentence logic, not word length.
- Para jumbles: find the opening sentence (no pronoun reference), then follow pronouns and connectors.
Worked example
Sentence: "Each of the boys were given a prize." Error: "were" should be "was". "Each" is a singular indefinite pronoun, so it takes a singular verb. The phrase "of the boys" is a prepositional phrase and does not change the subject's number. Correct: "Each of the boys was given a prize." Contrast: "One of my friends is coming" - "one" is the subject and "friends" is plural after "of".
Traps
- Writing "One of my friend" instead of "One of my friends".
- Breaking parallelism after "not only".
- Choosing a vocabulary option that fits the meaning but not the grammar.
- In RC, selecting a true statement that the passage never states.