NDA (II) 2023 General Ability Test · Question 13 of 146

Correct — B, 'create up the number of days'. There is no phrasal verb 'create up' in English. The idiom for parts adding to a whole is 'make up', so the segment should read 'make up the number of days'. 'Create' is also the wrong sense — days are not brought into being by the figure 365, they are totalled by it.

• (a)Three hundred and sixty five — Error-free. 'Three hundred and sixty five' is a correctly written numeral serving as the subject.
• (c)in a calendar year. — Error-free. 'In a calendar year' is a correct prepositional phrase.
• (d)No error — There is an error — 'create up' is not an English phrasal verb — so 'No error' is not the answer.

'Make up' means to form or constitute a whole, and 'create' cannot take the particle 'up' in that sense.

The segment is printed with 'create up', and that odd verb is what the item is testing. Phrasal verbs are fixed units — the particle 'up' belongs to 'make' here and cannot be handed over to a near-synonym.

• 'Make up' means to constitute or form the whole of something.
• A phrasal verb's particle is fixed and does not transfer to a synonym of the verb.

• Accepting 'create up' because 'create' and 'make' are close in meaning.
• Hunting for a subject-verb agreement fault and missing the wrong phrasal verb.

Asked as a spotting-errors item — name the segment that contains the error, or mark 'No error'.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Spot the error. Eleven players (a) / create up a cricket team (b) / on the field. (c) / No error (d)

  • (a)Eleven players
  • (b)create up a cricket team
  • (c)on the field.
  • (d)No error

  Answer(b) create up a cricket team — the idiom is 'make up', giving 'make up a cricket team'.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the correct option. Twelve months __________ a year.

  • (a)create up
  • (b)make up
  • (c)take up
  • (d)draw up

  Answer(b) make up — 'make up' means to form or constitute a whole.