Nouns & Pronouns — CAT Previous-Year Questions
15 previous-year questions on Nouns & Pronouns from CAT, with full solutions. Practise free — check answers as you go; sign in to save your progress.
Nouns & Pronouns · CAT PYQs
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 sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
It was us who had left before he arrived.
Direction: In the question below, a part of the paragraph or sentences has been underlined. From the choices given to you, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.
The Romanians may be restive under Soviet direction — but they are tied to Moscow by ideological and military links.
Direction: In the question below, a part of the paragraph or sentences has been underlined. From the choices given to you, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.
In a penetrating study, CBS-TV focuses on these people without hope, whose bodies are cared for by welfare aid, but whose spirit is often neglected by a disinterested society.
A sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c and d. Identify that part of the sentence which needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.
a. Almost all school teachers insist that
b. a student's mother
c. is responsible for the student's conduct
d. as well as his dress.
A sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c and d. Identify that part of the sentence which needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.
a. In the forthcoming elections
b. every man and woman
c. must vote for the candidate
d. of their choice.
A sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c and d. Identify that part of the sentence which needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.
a. If one has to decide
b. about the choice of a career
c. you should choose that option
d. which is really beneficial.
A sentence has been divided into four parts, marked a, b, c and d. Identify that part of the sentence which needs to be changed for the sentence to be grammatically correct.
a. The Mumbai police have found
b. the body of a man
c. who they believe to be
d. the prime suspect in a murder case.
Each question is a sentence broken into four parts. Select that part which has an error.
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.
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.
From the statements in questions choose the one that expresses the idea most correctly.
From the statements in questions choose the one that expresses the idea most correctly.
From the statements in questions choose the one that expresses the idea most correctly.
The sentence below has been broken up into four parts sequentially (a, b, c, d). Choose that part which contains a mistake.
(a) A person who earns a
(b) few thousand rupees
(c) and decides to save
(d) many of it must be a miser.