IBPS PO Mains 2016 - English Language

Directions (16-20): Which of the pair of phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and no correction is required, mark (e) as the answer.

According to author Dishantgautam, a novel is difficult to write when compared to a play is like going for an election where one has to appeal to a thousand people at a time whereas in a book one appeals to one only person.

We have in America a collection speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor colloquial English, but a mixture of all three.

Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar, far from being a tight, focused Narrative, is instead a cheaper novel that roams freely and imaginatively over a half million

Jayashree was habitually so docile and erratic that her friends could not understand her sudden hostile her employers.

The village headman was unlettered, but he was no fool, he could see through the mystery of the businessman's proposition and promptly moved him down.