Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay Solutions for Chapter: Sentence Correction, Exercise 3: Exercises

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. People, it seems, are rather more prejudiced than they think they are,

B Whether these small differences in what are essen tially artificial tasks really reflect day-to-day actions and choices was, until recently, untested.

C. All the polls predicted that Likud, Yisrael Beitenu, and four small rightist-religious parties would to gether muster 65 or more seats, whereas Kadima, Labour and their leftist allies would have 55 or fewer.

D. But for lending to continue, the government may need to inject fresh capital into the banks.

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. For now, Japan's economic crisis may have to wait until the political order is overturned, and something more robust put in its place. That may take months, if not years.

B. Of particular concern are "Alt-A" mortgages, of fered to borrowers sandwiched between subprime and prime.

C. The days when subprime mortgages were what kept bankers awake at night are long gone-though thanks only to the barrage of explosions in other corners of finance. In terms of toxicity, however, subprime has had no equal.

D. Moody calls this "unprecedented". It now expects losses for 2006-07 Alt-A securitizations to top 20 percent, compared with a historical average of well under 1 percent.

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. According to the Bank for International Settlements, a staggering 40 per cent of American mortgages originated in the first quarter of 2007 were interest only or negative-amortisation loans.

B. Banks have already sold a sizeable chunk of their Alt-A holdings to hedge funds and other asset management firms, often at large discounts. UBS's exposure has fallen from $26.6 billion to just $2.3 billion, for instance.

C. His enthusiasm for the free movement of labour is tempered by fear that it could undermine national wage agreements.

D. Vadiraja approves of the way German and Italian banks support small and medium-sized companies.

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. When his firm announced its annual results on January 29th, he went so far as to declare that it definitely does not "need a merger or significant acquisition.

B. But in truth the relationship has never been happy. C. Mr Wardak says that is the wrong way to look at the problem. He suggests that: "Building, equipping and training the Afghan army is much more economical than the deployment of foreign droops.

D. Wondering at the rate at which demand is slumping, a big, and sustained, fiscal boost is the panacea for America's economy.

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. When the financial system fails, everyone suffers.

B. Money is defined as just a collective agreement that a piece of paper can always be exchanged for goods or services.

C. You must believe that decisions made collectively by large groups of people are more likely to turn out to be accurate than decisions made by individuals.

D. Free markets shun seemingly worthy causes, where as the frivolous or apparently undeserving are rewarded.

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. Investments promised prosperity; instead they are the harbingers of hardship and assumed the demonic nature of destruction.

B. Some of the non performing assets are just left to continue along, mainly because they are worth so little that banks do not expect to recover much from liquidating them.

C. It would not be a stretch to believe that in return, Beijing would like more sway over the Hong Kong market, and that it may have pushed behind the scenes for a share swap.

D. This will surely kill the city's trumpeted belief in laissez-faire policies against the reality of government intervention in what should clearly be the most market-oriented aspect of any economy-a financial exchange.

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. As one keeps getting stronger, ones problems also keep growing.

B. Mr Monks said that there were more fundamental forces at work-such as the rise of modern financial capitalism and the single market.

C. The only remedy for improvement in relations between India and Pakistan is to open up the in vestigation to look beyond Pakistan; recognize the attacks as a conspiracy hatched by an interna tional terrorist network of non-state actors; stop pointing fingers at Pakistan and its primary intelligence agency, the ISI, and restore diplomatic relations.

D. The White House announced on Tuesday February 17th that 17,000 more soldiers would join the exist ing 65,000 Western troops.
 

Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

•  Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'F').
•  Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an 'I').
• Judgements, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a 'J').

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

A. It is a myth that workers enjoy benefits such as hous ing, bonuses, training and (usually) lifetime employ ment.

B. ONGC has been giving discounts to cover one-third of the losses state-run oil marketers were suffering for selling fuels at government-capped rates even

during oil's high run.

C. British construction workers went on strike this month to protest against Italian and Portuguese employees being brought into British building sites.

D. There were usually more British contractors working abroad than foreigners in Britain in the early part of nineteenth century.