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B.B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) · Sem 1
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B.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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The Paper as Set
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 70 · 11 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) He _______ for London yesterday. (Use appropriate Verb-Form of “leave”)
- (b) She _____ for a walk everyday. (Use appropriate Verb-Form of “go”)
- (c) Ganga is ________ longest river in India. (Use an appropriate Article)
- (d) I must help her get ____ files. (Use an appropriate Article)
- (e) We will go to ______ vegetarian restaurant. (Use an appropriate Article)
- (f) I have a favour to ask ______ you. (Use an appropriate Preposition)
- (g) One ____ not use mobile phones in the courtroom. (Use Modal of obligation)
- (h) She _______ not attend the meeting, she fell sick. (Use Modal of possibility)
- (i) I enjoy watching anime. (Make interrogative to get the underlined part as an answer)
- (j) It snowed last night. (Make a Yes/No type of question)
- (k) I was unwell. I went to the hospital. (Make a Compound sentence)
- (l) She practiced. She passed. (Make a Complex sentence)
- (m) They bought a dress. (Turn into Passive Voice)
- (n) The letter was sent by Sarvesh. (Turn into Active Voice)
- (o) “There is no cheesecake,” said the waiter. (Turn into Indirect Speech)
- (p) Vedant said, “Did you watch the latest episode of Friends?” (Turn into Indirect Speech)
- (q) As soon as I reached the station the train left. (Use ‘No sooner than.’)
Answer
For full marks, cover: any fifteen of the seventeen items, each with the correct form and, where useful, the one-line rule behind it. All seventeen are answered below.
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (a) | He left for London yesterday. | "Yesterday" marks a finished past action: simple past of "leave". |
| (b) | She goes for a walk every day. | A daily habit: simple present, with "-es" for "she". |
| (c) | Ganga is the longest river in India. | A superlative takes "the". |
| (d) | I must help her get the files. | Particular files that both speakers know about: definite article. |
| (e) | We will go to a vegetarian restaurant. | Any one restaurant, not yet named; "vegetarian" begins with a consonant sound: "a". |
| (f) | I have a favour to ask of you. | One asks a favour "of" a person. |
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (g) | One must not use mobile phones in the courtroom. | "Must not" expresses a rule or obligation ("should not" is also accepted). |
| (h) | She might not attend the meeting; she has fallen sick. | "Might" or "may" expresses possibility. |
| (i) | What do you enjoy watching? | The underlined word, "anime", is the thing enjoyed, so the question asks "what". |
| (j) | Did it snow last night? | Yes/no question in the simple past: "did" + subject + base verb. |
| (k) | I was unwell, so I went to the hospital. | A compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction ("so"). |
| (l) | She passed because she practised. | A complex sentence has a main clause and a subordinate clause ("because she practised"). |
| Item | Answer | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| (m) | A dress was bought by them. | Passive: object becomes subject; "was" + past participle; "by" + agent. |
| (n) | Sarvesh sent the letter. | Active: the agent becomes the subject, and the verb takes the past tense. |
| (o) | The waiter said that there was no cheesecake. | Reported statement: "is" becomes "was"; quotation marks removed; "that" added. |
| (p) | Vedant asked me whether I had watched the latest episode of Friends. | A yes/no question is reported with "whether" or "if"; simple past becomes past perfect; statement word order. |
| (q) | No sooner had I reached the station than the train left. | "No sooner" takes the past perfect with inverted word order, followed by "than". |
The grammar behind the answers
- Tenses. The simple past ("left") is used for a finished action at a stated past time. The simple present ("goes") is used for habits.
- Articles. "The" is used with superlatives and with things already known. "A" is used with one thing not yet named, before a consonant sound.
- Prepositions. Some verbs and nouns take fixed prepositions: one asks a favour "of" someone.
- Modals. "Must" shows obligation; "may" and "might" show possibility.
- Questions. Wh-questions ask for information ("what"). Yes/no questions begin with an auxiliary ("did").
- Sentence types. A compound sentence joins equal clauses with "and", "but" or "so". A complex sentence adds a dependent clause with "because", "when" or "although".
- Voice. In the passive, the object becomes the subject, and the doer follows "by".
- Reported speech. Tenses move one step back, quotation marks go, and questions take statement order.
- "No sooner ... than". It takes the past perfect with inversion: "No sooner had I...".
Conclusion. Each answer applies a basic rule of English grammar: tense, article, preposition, modal, question form, sentence type, voice, reported speech or inversion. Knowing the rule, not just the answer, helps in any variation of these questions.
SECTION II
Word formation
Answer any ten · 10 Marks
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