CAT 1997 — VARC Question 9
Direction: In each of the following questions, a part of the paragraph or sentence has been underlined. From the choices given, you are required to choose the one, which would best replace the underlined part.
With the pick up in the standard of education, expensive private schools have started blooming up in every corner of the country.
Answer & solution
- A
started blooming in every corner of the country
- B
started mushrooming all over the country
started mushrooming in every corner of the country
- D
blossomed all over the country
The correct idiomatic usage to refer to a proliferation of something is 'have mushroomed'. ‘blooming’ and ‘blossoming’ are not words that we use to indicate that a lot of schools have come up overnight. ‘Mushrooming’ is most apt, literally and figuratively, in this regard. ‘all over’ is a more generic term than ‘in every corner’; the latter term is more specific.