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B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) · Sem 1
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B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Sem 1 General English Oct 2025 Question Paper with Solutions
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Contents
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MarksPage
The Paper as Set
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 70 · 10 questions answered
Instructions printed on the paper
- N.B. (1) All questions are compulsory. (2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
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SECTION I
Do as directed
Answer any 15 · 15 Marks
Q1)Do as directed. (Any 15)[15]
- (a) We _______ football at the stadium yesterday. (Use the appropriate verb form of "play")
- (b) They are _______ the band practice regularly these days. (Use the appropriate verb form of "attend")
- (c) Gold is ______ noble metal. (Use an appropriate article)
- (d) I watched ______ movie yesterday. (Use an appropriate article)
- (e) They were looking _______ you all day. (Use an appropriate preposition)
- (f) The files are ___ the table. (Use an appropriate preposition)
- (g) You ____ pay your taxes as a citizen. (Use a modal auxiliary of duty)
- (h) _______ you like to go for a movie tomorrow? (Use a modal auxiliary of inquiry)
- (i) The Marathi movie, 'Dashavtar' was a hit in Maharashtra. (Make interrogative to get the underlined part as an answer)
- (j) She speaks French. (Make a yes/no type of question)
- (k) Even though it was injured, she finished the race. (Transform the sentence into a simple sentence)
- (l) He studied music. She worked at a music academy. (Make it compound sentence)
- (m) The choir sang 'Showers of Blessings'. (Change into passive voice)
- (n) The tea was split by Vaishanavi. (Change into active voice)
- (o) Joe asked, "When will you be back". (Turn into indirect speech)
- (p) She said "I am going home". (Turn into indirect speech)
- (q) He is so outgoing that he will make friends. (Rewrite the sentence using "too")
- (r) As soon as they finish a project, they move on to the next. (Rewrite the sentence using "no sooner than")
Answer
For full marks, cover: any fifteen of the eighteen items, each with the correct form and, where useful, the one-line rule behind it. All eighteen are answered below.
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | We played football at the stadium yesterday. | "Yesterday" marks a finished past action: simple past. |
| (b) | They are attending the band practice regularly these days. | "Are" + verb-ing: present continuous for an ongoing habit "these days". |
| (c) | Gold is a noble metal. | "Metal" here is a countable noun used to classify gold: indefinite article. |
| (d) | I watched a movie yesterday. | A movie not named before: indefinite article. |
| (e) | They were looking for you all day. | "Look for" means search. |
| (f) | The files are on the table. | "On" for something resting on a surface. |
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (g) | You must pay your taxes as a citizen. | "Must" expresses duty or obligation ("should" or "ought to" are also accepted). |
| (h) | Would you like to go for a movie tomorrow? | "Would you like" is the polite form of inquiry or invitation. |
| (i) | Which Marathi movie was a hit in Maharashtra? | The underlined part, 'Dashavtar', names the movie, so the question asks "which". |
| (j) | Does she speak French? | Yes/no question in the simple present: "does" + subject + base verb. |
| (k) | In spite of being injured, she finished the race. | A simple sentence has one finite verb; the clause "even though she was injured" becomes a phrase. |
| (l) | He studied music, and she worked at a music academy. | A compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction. |
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (m) | 'Showers of Blessings' was sung by the choir. | Passive: object becomes subject; "was" + past participle; "by" + agent. |
| (n) | Vaishnavi spilt the tea. | Active: the agent becomes the subject. (The paper prints "split"; the verb meant is "spill".) |
| (o) | Joe asked when I would be back. | Indirect question: reporting verb in the past, "will" becomes "would", statement word order, no question mark. |
| (p) | She said that she was going home. | Reported statement: "I am going" becomes "she was going". |
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (q) | He is too outgoing not to make friends. | "So ... that" with a positive result becomes "too ... not to". |
| (r) | No sooner do they finish a project than they move on to the next. | "No sooner" takes inverted word order ("do they finish") and is followed by "than". |
Notes on the trickier items
- Articles (c) and (d). Use "a" before a consonant sound and "an" before a vowel sound. "The" is used for something already known or unique. Neither blank refers to anything specific, so "a" is right in both.
- Modals (g) and (h). Modals of duty are "must", "should" and "ought to". "Must" is the strongest. "Would" in (h) makes a polite request or invitation.
- Simple and compound sentences (k) and (l). A simple sentence has one main clause. A compound sentence has two or more main clauses joined by "and", "but", "or" or "so". A complex sentence has a main clause and a dependent clause, as the original sentence in (k) does.
- Voice (m) and (n). In the passive voice the receiver of the action becomes the subject. In the active voice the doer is the subject. The tense stays the same.
- Reported speech (o) and (p). When the reporting verb is in the past, the tense shifts back one step: "am going" becomes "was going", and "will" becomes "would". Pronouns change to suit the speaker.
- "Too" and "no sooner" (q) and (r). "Too" has a negative sense ("too tired to walk"), so a positive result needs "not to". "No sooner" at the start of a sentence needs inversion and is always paired with "than", never "when" or "then".
Conclusion. Each answer applies one rule of grammar: tense and verb form, articles, prepositions, modals, question forms, sentence types, voice, reported speech and transformation. Any fifteen correct answers earn the full fifteen marks.
SECTION II
Word formation
Answer any ten · 10 Marks
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