SSC CGL Tier 1 (16 June 2024)

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. B

• The pronouns that connect a clause or phrase to a noun or a pronoun, is called a relative pronoun.

• The most common relative pronouns are:

• who, whom, whose, which, that.

Example:

• We don't know the person who donated this money.

• We use 'who' in relative clauses to refer to people, and sometimes to pet animals. (refer to the above example)

• As per the rule given above, 'who' will be used instead of 'which' in the 2nd part of the sentence.

Correct Sentence: There would be a lot of children who would love to have a big playground in school.

The correct answer is as tall as an.

• Whenever we see the structure like 'as....as' and 'so....as', we will use a positive degree of adjective/adverb.

• The conjunction 'so/as...as' is used to compare different things.

• The sentence talks about the bird 'Ostrich' being the tallest bird.

In the latter part of the sentence, the article 'an' will be used before the noun 'ostrich' as it has the sound of a vowel.

• As per the points given above, 'as tall as an' is the correct choice in the underlined part of the sentence.

Correct sentence: No other bird is as tall as an ostrich.

The correct answer is are.

• One-fourth of/ a quarter of/ twenty percent of + plural countable noun + plural verb + Object.

• As per the rule and example given above, 'are' will be used in the underlined part of the given question. 

Correct Sentence: Twenty-five percent of the rooms in this hotel are occupied.

The correct answer is "The manager said that she wanted me to attend the conference".

• Necessary steps to form the indirect form of the given sentence are as follows:

• Omit all inverted commas or quotation marks.

• That' is inserted after the helping verb of the subject.

• Here, the helping verb after the subject "The manager" is "said".

• End the sentence with a full stop.

• Use pronouns appropriately.

• If the verb inside the inverted commas/quotation marks is in the present tense, change it into the corresponding past tense.

• In this question, the given Direct Speech is in 'Present Continuous' Tense, so it will be changed to 'Past Continuous' Tense for Indirect Speech.

• Therefore, the correct answer is "The manager said that she wanted me to attend the conference".

• When the direct speech is in an imperative form, we follow the steps given below to convert it indirect speech:

• Change the sentence in the direct speech from imperative to assertive.

• The tense of reported speech is changed only when the reporting verb is in the past tense.

The reporting verb said to is converted into requested.

• 'To infinitive' is used in place of comma and inverted commas followed by the 1st form of the verb.

• 'help' changes into 'to help'.

• Similarly 'these' changes into 'those'.

• At last line up the remaining part.

Following these steps, we finally get- I requested my friend to help me arrange those books on the shelf.

The correct answer is option 3) i.e. Were the children scared by the cry?

• The given sentence is an Interrogative Active Voice.

• If any Interrogative Sentence starts from "do, does or did" then while preparing Passive Voice, we have to use "is/are/am/was and were" according to the number & person of the object.

•  The given sentence is starting with 'did', when we convert it into passive voice we use 'were' here, as 'children' is the plural form of the object.

•  Also, the base verbs are never used in passive voice sentences.

•  We have to change the base verb in an active sentence into the past participle ie. third form verb in a passive sentence.

Here, the base verb 'scare' is changed into the past particle form 'scared'.

Hence, the correct sentence is "Were the children scared by the cry?"

The correct answer is option 4)

There are some verbs/nouns/adjectives which are followed by fixed preposition given below:

• Exonerate from, aptitude for, interested in, inured to, accused of, predilection for, respite from, vexed at, etc.

The correct solution is option 4 i.e. veteran. 

• Context of the sentence: The sentence is about someone who served in the U.S. Army for a long time.

• Inveterate means having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.

• Chronic means (of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.

• Hardened means having become or been made hard or harder.

• Veteran means an ex-member of the armed forces.

From the above explanations, we find that veteran is the only word which will fit the context of the sentence.

Correct sentence: The military veteran has served in the U.S. Army for more than twenty years.

The correct answer is Option 4.

• When we connect the sentences to form an idea, it is necessary to establish a relation between them.

• The given sentences talk about the lottery system and how people spend their hard-earned money.

• The part of the paragraph begins with D. It states that people buy lotteries with the hope to become rich overnight.

• A follows D. It connects with D that lotteries are  organized by State Governments.

The correct answer is Option 1.

When we combine the sentences to form a paragraph or an idea, it is important to establish a connection between them. The given sentences talk about a soldier who died on the battlefield and the money allotted to his family,

• The subject of the paragraph is introduced in C' a soldier' who died on the battlefield while fighting.

•  B follows C. As the soldier died, a gallantry award and financial aid were announced for him by the district collector.

• D follows B. It connects with sentence B of the financial aspect. It mentions the money was promptly disbursed Best from the Prime Minister's Relief Fund.

• The conclusion is drawn in sentence A. As the money was disbursed, it brought relief to the family of the deceased, while the gallantry award was an honour.

• Thus the correct order is CBDA.