Prepositions — CAT Previous-Year Questions
7 previous-year questions on Prepositions from CAT, with full solutions. Practise free — check answers as you go; sign in to save your progress.
Prepositions · CAT PYQs
Fill up the blanks A, B, C ... F, in the two passages below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.
"Between the year 1946 and the year 1955, I did not file any income tax returns". With that ______A______ statement, Ramesh embarked on an account of his encounter with the Income Tax Department. "I originally owed Rs. 20,000 in unpaid taxes. With _____B________ and _______C______, the 20,000 became 60,000. The Income Tax Department then went into action, and I learned firsthand just how much power the Tax Department wields. Royalties and trust funds can be ______D_______; automobiles may be _______E______, and auctioned off. Nothing belongs to the ______F_______ until the case is settled."
Identify the INCORRECT sentence or sentences.
- Harish told Raj to plead guilty.
- Raj pleaded guilty of stealing money from the shop.
- The court found Raj guilty of all the crimes he was charged with.
- He was sentenced for three years in jail.
Fill up the blanks A, B, C ... F, in the two passages below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.
"Between the year 1946 and the year 1955, I did not file any income tax returns". With that ______A______ statement, Ramesh embarked on an account of his encounter with the Income Tax Department. "I originally owed Rs. 20,000 in unpaid taxes. With _____B________ and _______C______, the 20,000 became 60,000. The Income Tax Department then went into action, and I learned firsthand just how much power the Tax Department wields. Royalties and trust funds can be ______D_______; automobiles may be _______E______, and auctioned off. Nothing belongs to the ______F_______ until the case is settled."
Identify the INCORRECT sentence or sentences.
- Last Sunday, Archana had nothing to do.
- After waking up, she lay on the bed thinking of what to do.
- At 11 o'clock she took shower and got ready.
- She spent most of the day shopping.
Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.
In a large company, ______1______ people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to ______2_______ an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally automatic, as result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it's often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No. But they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a "failed product" and to ask how the process ______3_______ such a phenomenon in the first place.
In each of the questions given below, four different ways of writing a sentence are indicated. Choose the best way of writing the sentence.
- Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive hedging.
- Any action by government to reduce the systemic risk inherent in financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive gambling.
- Any action by government to reduce the systemic risk inherent due to financial markets will also reduce that risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourages excessive hedging.
- Any action of government to reduce the systemic risk inherent to financial markets will also reduce the risks that private operators perceive and thereby encourage excessive gambling.
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.
Rahul Bajaj has done a great job of taking the company to its present status, but it is time that he let go off the reins.
Each question is a sentence broken into four parts. Select that part which has an error.
Kya –Kya is an obscure island which is inhabited by two types of people: the ‘Yes’ type and the ‘No’ type. Native of type ‘Yes’ ask only questions the right answer to which is ‘Yes’ while those of type ‘No’ ask only questions the right answer to which is ‘No’. For example. The ‘Yes’ type will ask questions like “Is 2 plus 2 equal to 4?” while the ‘No’ type will ask questions like “Is 2 plus 2 equal to five?” The following questions are based on your visit to the island of Kya – Kya.
In each of the three questions, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked a, b, c and d. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar, idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.
The sentence below has been broken up into four parts sequentially (a, b, c, d). Choose that part which contains a mistake.
(a) When we sold of all our
(b) furniture, crockery and
(c) other household goods,
(d) the room looked bare.