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VERBAL

APTITUDE


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About Verbal Aptitude

The verbal section in any competitive examinatiovery critical as in most of the cases it becomesdecisive for the overall result.

It is considered as the most important to haveingredient for any organization to shortlist the

candidates prole for further processing.

In addition, a student admitting to prestigious Bschools through !T and "#!T this section hasbecome a yard stic$ as it deal %ith logic in the big

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Objectives of the course

The main ob&ective is ' application of (ogic to"rammar

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Sentence Correction Contents

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Sentence Correction Contents

1ub&ect, redicate

The sub&ect of a sentence tells the reader %hothe sentence is about8%ho or %hat is performaction of the sentence.

The predicate tells the reader something abou

sub&ect8%hat the sub&ect is or does. onsidefollo%ing sentence9

The clock is ticking.


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!greement

:erbs, for example, should agree in number %

sub&ects. If the sub&ect is singular, the verb shsingular; if the sub&ect is plural, the verb shouplural.

Robin want to meet us later

He do whatever he want


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Agreement If a compound, singular subject is connected by and, the verplural.

Both Vanessa and Xui want to join the committee. If a compound, singular subject is connected by or or nor, thebe singular.

Neither Vanessa nor Xiu wants to join the committee.

If one plural and one singular subject are connected by or orverb agrees with the closest subject.

Neither Vanessa nor the treasurers want to join the committee. Neither the treasurers nor Vanessa wants to join the committee.


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Agreement

There is plenty of reasons to go

Here is the results you have been waiting for.

What is the side eects of this medication


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Consistent Tense

!he left the house and forgets her "eys again

When we wor" together# we got better results


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Possessive Pronouns and Contraction

The dog chased its tail.

Their %ords %ere comforting

Its time to eat


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Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

$hildren will often believe everything their parthem

%veryone has their own reasons for coming

Both of them &nished his wor".

'nly a few are still in its original cases