Place and time: that, never where or when 2 PYQs

• It was at the summit in Vienna / where the treaty was officially ratified, / thereby bringing to an end / decades of political uncertainty in the…SSC CGL 2025 · 18 Sep 2025
• It was at the summit in Vienna / where the treaty was officially ratified, / thereby bringing to an end / decades of political uncertainty in the…SSC CGL 2025 · 18 Sep 2025

The verb after who / that matches the stressed noun 2 PYQs

• It is the uncertainty of how the council intends to proceed (1) / that seem to have created (2) / the most unrest among those (3) / waiting for…SSC CGL 2025 · 21 Sep 2025
• It were the farmers / who wanted the government / to increase the Minimum Selling Price.SSC Stenographer 2022 · 17 Nov 2022

What-cleft: one idea, one singular verb 1 PYQs

• What the committee failed to deliberate on adequately / were not the policy's objectives themselves, / but the political ramifications it / might…SSC CGL 2025 · 13 Sep 2025

Long cleft sentences: the frame is right, the error hides in the rest 3 PYQs

• What he regretted the most / was not the outcome of the negotiation, / but that he had failed communicating / his intent clearly at the outset.SSC CGL 2025 · 24 Sep 2025
• It was the misalignment between projected and actual data / that cast doubt not only on the calculations / but also on the assumptions that /…SSC CGL 2025 · 16 Sep 2025
• I've learned that what really counts in life, in the end, is not how many toys we have / collected or how much money we've accumulated, but how many…SSC CGL 2018 · 17 Feb 2018

All-cleft: All = the only thing 1 PYQs

• All that is needed for the bill to pass / are a simple majority / and a signature from the presiding officer / to certify the vote.SSC CGL 2025 · 16 Sep 2025

Pronoun stressed: I … am, he … is, you … have 2 PYQs

• It is he who work / for the company / for more than a decade. / It is heSSC CGL 2024 · 11 Sep 2024
• [It is I who am] responsible for the success of the organisation.SSC CGL 2022 · 28 Jan 2022

It is not until / only when / because … that 1 PYQs

• When one stops being optimistic, believes that he / is worthless, and stops hoping for a better future, / it is only then that the moment of actual…SSC CGL 2018 · 17 Feb 2018