NDA (I & II) 2020 General Ability Test · Question 43 of 148

Correct — B, Error in the second underlined part. The verb is 'cope with', not 'cope up with'; the 'up' is redundant, so it should read 'I cannot cope with this pressure.'

• (a)Error in the first underlined part — 'I cannot' is grammatically correct.
• (c)Error in the third underlined part — The object 'this pressure' is correct.
• (d)No error — The sentence does contain an error — the redundant 'up' in 'cope up with'.

A phrasal-verb error item — the standard form is 'cope with', and adding 'up' is redundant.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the correct sentence.

  • (a)He cannot cope up with stress.
  • (b)He cannot cope with stress.
  • (c)He cannot cope stress.
  • (d)He cannot coping with stress.

  Answer(b) He cannot cope with stress — 'cope with' takes no 'up'.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Fill in the blank: They struggled to ____ the sudden change.

  • (a)cope up with
  • (b)cope with
  • (c)cope at
  • (d)cope on

  Answer(b) cope with — the correct phrasal verb.