Tenses — English (Language & Literature) STD 10 — Question

Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction for the following line, from a news report:
Our soldiers are better equipped than that of Pakistan.

Option No.	Error	Correction
(a)	are	is
(b)	equipped	equip
(c)	that	those
(d)	of	at

Fill in the blank with the correct option from the two options given in brackets.
Time and tide ______ (wait/ waits) for none.

He behaves as if he is king.

Choose the correct form of the verb given in the bracket in the following sentence:
A number of people __________ reported to be missing in the hain accident at Jhansi. (was, were)

Law and order are to be maintained at all costs.

Select the correct option to complete the narration of the dialogue between Abraham and his brother John.
Abraham : (humming) By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept at the memory of Zion,.....
John : What are you singing, Abraham ?
Abraham : Dear me , don't you know its Psalm number 137?
John : If one priest found it difficult, then I'll keep asking, till you know about it!
While Abraham was singing, John asked him what he was singing. Abraham, surprised, asked John if he did not know that it was Psalm number 137. John exclaimed good-humouredly that if a priest found it difficult then____________
(a) he would kept asking till he know about it.
(b) he would keep asking till he knew about it.
(c) he would be keeping to ask until he came to know about it.
(d) None of the above

Sarika said that she would go home __________.

Many a girls have gone to see the movie.