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1. Either the Chief Minister or his colleagues have submitted his resignation.

2. He died of a wound and not from malaria.

3. Any able bodied man is eligible for the job.

4. All, but her, had made an attempt.

5. Indians invented the decimal system and the digit, algebra and geometry but the names of their inventors are buried in oblivion.

6. I told him clearly that he hadn't ought to do that to me.

7. He is working hard with a view to attain good marks in the examination.

8. Each of our students pay their tuition fee at the beginning of the month.

9. It is high time he starts to look into his own flaws before speaking ill of others.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

1. Either the Chief Minister or his colleagues have submitted his resignation.
2. He died of a wound and not from malaria.
3. Any able-bodied man is eligible for the job.
4. All but she had made an attempt.
5. Indians invented the decimal system and the digit, algebra and geometry, but the names of their inventors are buried in oblivion.
6. I told him clearly that he oughtn't (to) /shouldn't do that to me. ('Hadn't ought to' is common but informal/casual.)
7. He is working hard with a view to attaining good marks in the examination.
8. All of our students pay their tuition fee at the beginning of the month.
9. It is high time he started to look into his own flaws before speaking ill of others.

Unprlld · Answer

He died from a wound and not of malaria.( that's what the answer key says)

sentence 7 & 9- please explain( I've doubt regarding them)
it is high time he started looking(should be there, shouldn't it?

Mister Micawber · Answer

He died from a wound and not of malaria.( that's what the answer key says)-- Very prescriptive; native speakers pay no attention to this 'rule'.

sentence 7 & 9- please explain( I've doubt regarding them) -- Re #7, 'to' is not an infinitive marker; it is a preposition:

A view to doing...
Look forward to seeing...
Accustomed to reading...
etc

RE #9, it is high time he started looking (should be there, shouldn't it?)- Either is acceptable. (Actually, I started to change it to 'started looking' and then realized that it made no real difference whatsoever.)

Pathfinder1992 · Answer

1. Either the Chief Minister or his colleagues have submitted their resignation.

This should be correct since, logically, resignation can only be done by the person concerned. Here their agrees with the plural have.

3. Any able-bodied man is eligible for the job.

Better hyphenate adjectives like that so that you make it clear that it is a single adjective, not two.

4. All but her had made an attempt.

Commas are unnecessary here.

That's all I checked for now.

Nakool · Answer

1) Either the Chief Minister or his colleagues have submitted their resignation.

When a singular subject is connected by or or nor to a plural subject, use a plural verb and pronoun.
Read this :-http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp

2) He died from a wound and not of malaria

people die OF disease, but FROM external causes like injuries, wounds and so on.

3) Any able bodied man is eligible for the job.

This is correct.

4) Indians invented the decimal system and the digit, algebra and geometry but the names of their inventors are buried into oblivion

the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten.

5) I told him clearly that he ought not to have done that to me.

Ought not to have can be used to talk about things that happened unnecessarily.

We ought not to have wasted so much time over it.
We have done things that we ought not to have done.
We have left undone things that we ought to have done.

6) He is working hard with a view to attaining good marks in the examination

'With a view to' is followed by Gerund

7) Each of our students pay his tuition fee at the beginning of the month.

'Each' is referring to every single individual . 'their' will not fit here.

8) It is high time he started into his own flaws before speaking ill of others.

Look at this sentence:
It's high time you got a job. This sentence refers to present time. We can use 'high time' in the Past http://www.grammaring.com/glossary/3/lettert#term183ense.

Read this:- http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/it+is+high+time

Nakool · Answer

All, but her, had made an attempt.

'but' is a preposition here, so it will be followed by 'object'.

you can't write "All, but she, had made an attempt"

Mister Micawber · Answer

1) Either the Chief Minister or his colleagues have submitted their resignation.-- Good; right. My oversight.

(X) 2) He died from a wound and not of malaria. people die OF disease, but FROM external causes like injuries, wounds and so on.- This, as I said, is a prescription that has never been followed by native speakers.

(X) 3) Any able bodied man is eligible for the job. This is correct.-- No, the word should be hyphenated. Compare these dictionaries: http://www.onelook.com/?w=able+bodied&ls=a

(X) 4) Indians invented the decimal system and the digit, algebra and geometry but the names of their inventors are buried into oblivion. the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten.-- Simply wrong: no one or nothing is 'buried into' anything; the verb is static in nature. Please provide one reliable source.

5) I told him clearly that he ought not to have done that to me. -- Yes; I concurred in my post.

6) He is working hard with a view to attaining good marks in the examination 'With a view to' is followed by Gerund -- Yes.

7) - Right.

(X) 8) Each of our students pay his tuition fee at the beginning of the month. 'Each' is referring to every single individual . 'their' will not fit here.-- 'Each' is not in concord with 'pay'. 'His' is a politically incorrect pronoun unless all the students are male, while 'their' has been used as the 3rd person singular personal pronoun by the greatest writers in English for the past 200 years; it is only recently that prescriptivists (not native speakers, who use it constantly) have taken a dislike to it. All in all, changing 'each' to 'all' is the simplest and most acceptable solution.

9) It is high time he started into his own flaws before speaking ill of others. Look at this sentence:
It's high time you got a job. This sentence refers to present time. We can use 'high time' in the Past Tense. Read this:- http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/it+is+high+time -- I agreed in my post, but students should be aware that the present tense is also in frequent, accepted use.

Your score is 5/9, Nagool. Pretty good.

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