Improvement of Sentences Practice Question and Answer
8 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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Answer : 2. "Both (i) and (iii) "
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 hotels were heavy booked for the festival in Banaras.
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64b64d2ce154aff533776124- 1are heavy bookedfalse
- 2were heavily bookingfalse
- 3were heavily bookedtrue
- 4No substitution requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "were heavily booked"
Explanation :
The correct sentence should be:
The hotels were fully booked for the festival in Banaras.
Explanation: The phrase "fully booked" means that all the available rooms in the hotels were reserved, which is the appropriate expression for indicating that there are no more rooms available for booking.
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Any of these two books is good.
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5fbc92fd433ab9498d233f76- 1Any of thisfalse
- 2Either of thesetrue
- 3Any other of thisfalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 2. "Either of these"
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
The discoms, along with the railways, are between the few generally large and inefficient government monopolies that need reform.
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5f3e40a954900c5349dd8c19- 1is between fewfalse
- 2are among the fewfalse
- 3are among the fewtrue
- 4No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "are among the few"
Q: Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.
I guessed her feelings when she started crying.
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6458e1e8613f9f6e33238a35- 1estimated her emotionstrue
- 2estimated her rejoindersfalse
- 3estimated her reactionsfalse
- 4estimated her ripostesfalse
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Answer : 1. "estimated her emotions"
Q: A sentence/ a part of sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined par which will improve the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct alternatives. In case no improvement needed, click the option corresponding to 'No improvement'.
Health could be of varied types; physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and sexual health are some of them.
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64e490ba3be218b6cdbe497d- 1could being offalse
- 2can offalse
- 3can be oftrue
- 4could been offalse
- 5No improvementfalse
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Answer : 3. "can be of"
Q:Direction : which of the phrase (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.
They had registered a complaint against her as she have violated the contract.
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5e6b432ac34ec57f0d128b98- 1had violencefalse
- 2had violatedtrue
- 3has violatefalse
- 4have violatefalse
- 5No correction requiredfalse
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Answer : 2. "had violated"
Q:Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
To err is human, to forget divine.
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5f362858dcc354083314bbb3- 1Foregofalse
- 2Forgivetrue
- 3Excusefalse
- 4No improvementfalse
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