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English ( Master) Phrasal Verbs

Directions (Q 1-5): In each of the following questions one phrase has been given and it has been followed by four sentences. You have to find out in which of these sentences phrase has been used properly according to its meaning and mark your answer from the options denoted by a), b), c) and d). Mark e) as your answer if you find that phrase has been applied properly in all the sentences.

Keep down

i) The protesters were kept down by the police as they were blocking the traffic on the road.

ii) You will have to keep down your cost of living if you want save money for fixed deposit scheme.

iii) As per production manager, “fixed cost cannot be changed but we can try to keep down the variable cost of production”.

iv) I had been told to keep down all the question papers in the store room and I did the same.

only i &ii

only i, ii& iv

only i, ii &iii

all except iv

all are correct

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Explanation:

Correct Answer is(c).
The phrase “keep down” has more than one meaning. These are “to make something stay at a low level or to avoid increasing something / to prevent a person, group, etc. from expressing themselves freely” and phrase has been applied properly in i, ii and iii sentences.