Passage Completion for CLAT 2020

Aditya Anand19 December 20193 min read

Passage Completion for CLAT 2020

Passage completion means one has to fill the blanks in a passage so as to give it a sensible meaning. Questions of passage completion are expected to be asked in CLAT as they judge the prudence, vocabulary and knowledge of English grammar of the examinee.

In order to solve the passage completion questions, the aspirants should have a sound knowledge of the English Grammar rules. The questions are to be solved rationally by applying common sense so as to derive a logical meaning of the passage.

Passage Completion for CLAT 2020 — CLATalogue

The first sentence is ‘Someone…at the door’. A lady opened it. So when the door is being opened it surely means someone might have knocked it first. Thus option b will be the answer.
A stranger was standing at the …. It is quite logical that when the door was opened, the stranger must be standing at the door. Thus option d will be the answer.
Madam, please excuse me for… you. Now the options given are very close but if you connect the sentences you will get an insight that a stranger is at the door and he is talking to the lady who has opened the door. Any stranger who is initiating a conversation will generally seek an excuse for a disturbance. Thus option (a) will suit the most.
I….by your house everyday on my (5)….to work. Here just after the blank ‘by’ preposition is used this denotes an action is being done daily and option d gives the best meaning to the sentence in the light of the passage.
I pass by your house everyday on my….to work. It is very easy to pick up option (d) as the answer because it is the only logical option available to give the meaning to the sentence.
I have….that every day you hit your son on (7)….head with a loaf of bread. Now a stranger can only notice a certain thing he cannot remember, feel or decide a thing for an unknown person. Thus option (c) being the only logical answer.
I have noticed that every day you hit your son on….head with a loaf of bread. It is quite obvious that the blank will be filled by ‘his’ as the sentence is talking about son’s head. Therefore option (b) will be the answer.
The lady replied, “Yes, that’s (8)….”.Herein the answer is given by the lady to the above-asked question and if you read the successive sentences you will realise that the answer was given in affirmative on which the stranger asked another question. Thus option a will be the best-suited answer.
The stranger asked, “This morning, I saw you ….him with chocolate. Why (10)….? To answer this one you need to read the passage till the end because if you will just read the very next sentence to it ‘today is his birthday’ then you might fall on option c but if you read it till the end you will realise that the lady has hit her son with a sweet thing which means she had hit him with a chocolate thus option d will be the answer
The stranger asked, “This morning, I saw you hitting him with chocolate. Why (10)….? Herein it is very obvious that option c will be the answer as the other options are very vague to the meaning of the sentence.

Passage Completion for CLAT 2020

Passage Completion for CLAT 2020

Read the entire passage

Identify the tone of the passage

Identify the tense of the passage

Link the sentences

Eliminating options