Improvement of Sentences Questions and Answers Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Choose the correct alternative which will improve the part of the sentence given in quotes.
Both Santhosh and Rohit have 167 English papers due 'in' Tuesday.
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63318eee1fdfd616ed8db9d0- 1Aboutfalse
- 2Atfalse
- 3Ontrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "On "
Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
The Ghats in Benaras were very crowded but we were able to watch the Ganga aarti clearly.
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64b6875e568e7ff594b539c2- 1No substitution requiredtrue
- 2but we wasfalse
- 3but we arefalse
- 4so we werefalse
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Answer : 1. "No substitution required"
Explanation :
The underlined segment in the given sentence does not need substitution. It is already grammatically correct:
The Ghats in Benaras were very crowded but we were able to watch the Ganga aarti clearly.
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Men of skill and brain should be India’s most valuable treasures.
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5f3626c6efa02861bb1bea28- 1Propertyfalse
- 2geniusfalse
- 3exportfalse
- 4No improvementtrue
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Answer : 4. "No improvement"
Q:Direction: In the following questions, some part of the sentence is underlined. Which of the options given below the sentence should replace the part underlined to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given then choose option E ‘No Correction required’ as the answer.
The Prime Minister’s casual remarks about the role of ethnicity in unemployment numbers has predictably put the cat among the pigeons on both sides of the political spectrum
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62f0d9ca06679c6dabc5bbe8- 1Put the dog among horsesfalse
- 2Put the cat among micefalse
- 3Put the cat among pigeonstrue
- 4Put the pigeons among catfalse
- 5No Correction Requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "Put the cat among pigeons"
Q: Select the option that will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement’.
Dad said that, “She would have been a great sister if she was just a bit more careful”.
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644b94fb6842c5ce47ce0db7- 1No improvementfalse
- 2that, "She would have been a great sister if she were just a bit more careful"false
- 3"She would have been a great sister if she were just a bit more careful"true
- 4“She would have been a greatest sister if she was just a bit more careful"false
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Answer : 3. ""She would have been a great sister if she were just a bit more careful""
Q:Directions: In each of the questions given below a part of the sentence is given in bold. It is then followed by three options. Find the alternative that can replace the given bold part to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If none of the alternatives is correct and the sentence is correct as it is then select option (e) as your choice.
There are two novels on the table which needs to be read before the exams, but neither one are interesting.
(i) neither one has interested
(ii) neither one is interesting
(iii) neither one were interesting
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64ec859e2bbb242750d18442(i) neither one has interested
(ii) neither one is interesting
(iii) neither one were interesting
- 1Only (i)false
- 2Both (i) and (ii)false
- 3Only (ii)true
- 4Both (i) and (iii)false
- 5No correction is requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "Only (ii) "
Q: A sentence/ a part of a sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement needed, click the option corresponding to 'No improvement'.
To improve into one’s health is one’s own responsibility as a healthy mind can reside only in a healthy body.
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64e4913746497acb22989e5f- 1in one's healthfalse
- 2at one's healthfalse
- 3to one's healthfalse
- 4upon one's healthtrue
- 5No improvementfalse
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Answer : 4. "upon one's health"
Q:Directions: In each of the questions given below a part of the sentence is given in bold. It is then followed by three options. Find the alternative that can replace the given bold part to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If none of the alternatives is correct and the sentence is correct as it is then select option (e) as your choice.
Economist Deena Khatkhate, who will pass away at the age of 92 on September 15 in Bethesda, Maryland, in the US, was an unusual man.
(i) who passed away
(ii) who shall passed away
(iii) who has passed away
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64ec84b8d928d8b716227efb(ii) who shall passed away
(iii) who has passed away
- 1Only (ii)false
- 2Both (i) and (iii)true
- 3Both (ii) and (iii)false
- 4Only (iii)false
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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