Is she known to you?
The sentence is: “Do you know her?”
👉 Passive Voice Rule:
Active: Do you + know + object?
Passive: Is + object + known to + subject?
Options:
(a) Are you known to her? → ❌ (changes meaning)
(b) Is she known by you? → grammatically possible, but less natural ❌
(c) Is she known to you? → ✅ correct, natural form
(d) Has she been known by you? → ❌ wrong tense
Hair : trim
Prune means to cut back parts of a shrub to make it neat or control its growth.
Similar relationship: Trim means to cut back parts of hair to make it neat.
(a) Beard : shave → shaving removes entirely, not just trims ❌
(c) Lawn : mow → mowing cuts grass, but it’s more like total cutting, not selective ❌
(d) Wool : shear → shearing removes completely ❌
(b) Hair : trim → cutting back, making neat, same as prune ✅
discouraged
The sentence is:
“He threw cold water over the project that the secretary had prepared.”
👉 Idiom “to throw cold water on something” = to discourage, criticize, or show disapproval so that enthusiasm is reduced.
Options:
(a) supported ❌
(b) encouraged ❌
(c) cleared ❌
(d) discouraged ✅
She advised that they should be allowed to play.
Direct speech:
She said, "Let them play."
👉 Rule:
“Let + object + verb” in Indirect Speech is usually reported as “should be allowed to …”.
So: She advised that they should be allowed to play.
Options:
(a) She advised that we should be allowed to play. ❌ (changes pronoun)
(b) She advised that you should be allowed to play. ❌ (changes pronoun)
(c) She advised that they would be allowed to play. ❌ (wrong auxiliary verb)
(d) She advised that they should be allowed to play. ✅
But for
The sentence is:
“________ the timely help the patient would have died.”
👉 Rule:
But for = “if it were not for / without.”
So, Without the timely help, the patient would have died.
Options:
(a) Inspite of ❌ (wrong meaning — opposite sense).
(b) Because of ❌ (would mean patient died, opposite of intended meaning).
(c) But for ✅ (correct: Without the help → patient would have died).
(d) Hasn’t it been ❌ (ungrammatical here).