CDS 2026 (I) English, question 81

Topic: Similar sounding words

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Directions · Q81 to Q90

In the following items similar sounding words are given, followed by sentences wherein in each sentence one of these words has been used, and underlined. You are required to select those sentences in which these words have been used most appropriately and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Q81

crops, corps, corpse

  1. What are the benefits of growing GM crops ?

  2. The volunteer corps was organising a blood donation camp.

  3. He was sleeping like a corpse.

In which of the sentences given above has / have the word(s) been used correctly ?

  1. (a) 2 and 3 only
  2. (b) 2 only
  3. (c) 1 and 3 only
  4. (d) 1, 2 and 3Correct answer

Solution.

Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3

  1. Crops are cultivated plants; a corps is an organised body of people; a corpse is a dead body.
  2. All three words fit their sentences, including the figurative comparison “sleeping like a corpse”.