(I) Just before the match I asked him whom he thought was going to win. (II) My nephew, who is in Bangalore, is eager to travel to Delhi in this winter. (III) One of my uncles is seriously ill and is in the intensive care unit.

Explanation

The correct sentences are (II) and (III) In the sentence (I), “whom” should be replaced with “who”. Because, “whom” is used in objective case and after it verb is not used, whereas “who” is used in nominative case and verb can be used after it. 10 www.bankersadda.com | www.ssca S96. Ans (a) Sol. The correct answer is sentence (I) In the sentence (II), “when he used to walk” should be replaced with “while he was walking”. The sentence is in past continuous. In the sentence (III), “have” must be replaced with “has”, as “a pair” is singular. S97. Ans (c) Sol. The correct sentence is (III) In sentence (I), “returned back” should be replaced by “returned” because the word back is implied by the word return, so basically it is not necessary to use back. Just return is enough. In sentence (II), “it” should be replaced with “them” S98. Ans (a) Sol. The correct answer is “those who worked on” “who” should be used as it is in nominative case and when we talk about some project or task, we say “work on”. S99. Ans (b) Sol. “merely to achieve” is the correct form. Because, “subject + be” infinitive (to + V1) is used, then in that case no preposition is used before infinitive. S100. Ans (e) Sol. The sentence is correct. S101. Ans (b) Sol. The sentence that starts with “no sooner” follows inversion rules. So, the correct form is “no sooner did I see”. S102. Ans (a) Sol. “admitted to hospital” is the correct answer. Because, when we are not talking about any particular ‘school’, ‘college’, ‘jail’, ‘hospital’ etc, then before all these nouns no article should be used. S103. Ans (e) Sol. The sentence is correct. S104. Ans (b) Sol. The given sentence is in present perfect tense which tells something about an action that has completed in immediate past, or at the time the statement is made and its correct structure is “S+ has/have+ v3”. Therefore the correct choice is option (b). adda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App