Tenses — CAT Previous-Year Questions
3 previous-year questions on Tenses from CAT, with full solutions. Practise free — check answers as you go; sign in to save your progress.
Tenses · CAT PYQs
In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.
- I did not know what to make of you.
- Because you’d lived in India, I associate you more with my parents than with me.
- And yet you were unlike my cousins in Calcutta, who seem so innocent and obedient when I visited them.
- You were not curious about me in the least.
- Although you did make effort to meet me.
Directions: For each of the two questions, indicate which of the statements given with that particular question is consistent with the description of the unseasonable man in the passage below.
Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted, but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at an arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.
Directions: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Since the advent of cable television, at the beginning of this decade, the entertainment industry took a giant stride forward in our country.
The sentence below has been broken up into four parts sequentially (a, b, c, d). Choose that part which contains a mistake.
(a) Had you been in my
(b) position, you were definitely
(c) shown your displeasure
(d) at the turn of events.