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S1: In other words, grammar grows and changes, and there is no such thing as correct use of English for the past, the present and the future.
P: "The door is broke."
Q: Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare's time.
R: Today, only an uneducated person would say,"My arm is broke."
S: For example, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, there is the line.
S6: All the words that man has invented are divided into eight classes, which are called parts of speech.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
For example, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, there is the line. "The door is broke." Today, only an uneducated person would say,"My arm is broke." Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare's time.
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S1: The Bhagavadgita recognises the nature of man and the needs of man.
P: All these three aspects constitute the nature of man.
Q: It shows how the human being is a rational one, an ethical one and a spiritual one.
R: More than all, it must be a spiritual experience.
S: Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason, his ethical conscience.
S6: A man who does not harmonise them, is not truly human.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
More than all, it must be a spiritual experience. Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason, his ethical conscience. All these three aspects constitute the nature of man. It shows how the human being is a rational one, an ethical one and a spiritual one.
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S1: Silence is unnatural to man.
P: Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence.
Q: In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world.
R: There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise.
S: He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness.
S6: He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work figure.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world. There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence.
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S1: During the middle ages the manufacture of cloth was divided amongst a number of associations of skilled workers who performed different operations required in its production.
P: But the association of skilled workers lacked capital to buy it.
Q: Consequently, he began to assume the role of the employer.
R: With the mechanisation of these operations, complicated apparatus became necessary for economic production.
S: The banker, therefore, stepped in to finance the industrialisation of these operations.
S6: This was one of the reasons why the industry flourished in such rich countries as Flanders, Italy and Britain.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
With the mechanisation of these operations, complicated apparatus became necessary for economic production. But the association of skilled workers lacked capital to buy it. The banker, therefore, stepped in to finance the industrialisation of these operations. Consequently, he began to assume the role of the employer.
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S1: I put the phone down and shook my head in bewilderment.
P: Then I am taken in tow by some moonlighting hare-brain with a passion for veteran aircraft, flying his own Mosquito through the night who happens to spot me.
Q: What a night, what an incredible night!
R: Then I get lost and short of fuel.
S: First I lose my radio and all my instruments.
S6: And finally a half-drunk ground-duty officer has the sense to put his runaway lights on in time to save me.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
What a night, what an incredible night! First I lose my radio and all my instruments. Then I get lost and short of fuel. Then I am taken in tow by some moonlighting hare-brain with a passion for veteran aircraft, flying his own Mosquito through the night who happens to spot me.
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S1: It is very easy to acquire bad habits.
P: If we do not continue to do it, we feel unhappy.
Q: The more we do a thing, the more we tend to like doing it.
R: The force of habit should be fought against.
S: This is called the force of habit.
S6: Even good things should be done from time to time only.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
The more we do a thing, the more we tend to like doing it. If we do not continue to do it, we feel unhappy. This is called the force of habit. The force of habit should be fought against.
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S1: Gandhiji had a vast amount of daily business to transact.
P: Yet Gandhiji was never too busy to withdraw temporarily from business affairs for recurrent periods of contemplation.
Q: Under present day conditions, that is the fate of any leader of any great movement.
R: In setting apart those times for contemplation gandhiji was being true, not only to himself, but to India.
S: If he had not made this his practice, he would not, I suppose,have been able to go on doing his business, because his spells of contemplation were the source of his inexhaustible strength.
S6: His practice on this point is something that is characteristic of the Indian tradition.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
Under present day conditions, that is the fate of any leader of any great movement. Yet Gandhiji was never too busy to withdraw temporarily from business affairs for recurrent periods of contemplation. If he had not made this his practice, he would not, I suppose,have been able to go on doing his business, because his spells of contemplation were the source of his inexhaustible strength. In setting apart those times for contemplation gandhiji was being true, not only to himself, but to India.
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S1: A farmer was taking the grain to the mill in sacks.
P: It was too heavy for him to lift.
Q: On the way the horse stumbled, and one of the sacks fell to the ground.
R: Presently he saw a rider coming towards him.
S: He stood waiting till he found somebody to help him.
S6: But the farmer saw that he was none other than the nobleman.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
On the way the horse stumbled, and one of the sacks fell to the ground. It was too heavy for him to lift. He stood waiting till he found somebody to help him. Presently he saw a rider coming towards him.
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S1: There is nothing strange in the fact that so many foreign students should wish to learn English.
P: If any valuable book is written in another language, an English translation of it sure to be speedily published.
Q: Anyone who masters the English tongue acquires a key.
R: Most books found to be generally useful are written in English.
S: The English speaking people want no monopoly of knowledge.
S6: This key will open to him whatever is valuable in the literature of the world.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
Most books found to be generally useful are written in English. If any valuable book is written in another language, an English translation of it sure to be speedily published. The English speaking people want no monopoly of knowledge. Anyone who masters the English tongue acquires a key.
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S1: The time has come for us to consider seriously the question of a Bharat brand of English.
P: I am not suggesting here a mongrelisation of the language.
Q: English must adopt the complexion of our life and assimilate its idiom.
R: Now the time is ripe for it to come to the dusty street, market place and under the banyan tree.
S: So far English has had a comparatively confined existence in our country, chiefly in the halls of learning, justice or administration.
S6: Bharat English will respect the rule of law and maintain the dignity of grammar, but still have a swadeshi stamp about it.

The Proper sequence should be:
Discuss
Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:
So far English has had a comparatively confined existence in our country, chiefly in the halls of learning, justice or administration. Now the time is ripe for it to come to the dusty street, market place and under the banyan tree. I am not suggesting here a mongrelisation of the language. English must adopt the complexion of our life and assimilate its idiom.