SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS

Directions: In the following questions, a sentence/ part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives which may improve the bold part. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is No Improvement.

Q1. Ravi has been demanding a lot more marks, doesn’t he ?

(a) hasn’t he?

(b) isn’t he?

(c) isn’t it ?

(d) No improvement

Q2. He parked his vehicle under the shade of a tree.

(a) on

(b) in

(c) beneath

(d) No improvement

Q3. TV sets have become costlier, thanks to the sudden rise in the prices of imported compounds.

(a) tubes

(b) components

(c) things

(d) No improvement

Q4. Less people came to watch cricket matches this year, so the gate receipts were lesser than last year.

(a) Many

(b) Fewer

(c) Lot of

(d) No improvement

Q5. Many workers were being held hostages.

(a) held to be hostages

(b) held as hostages

(c) held like hostages

(d) No improvement

Q6. Chennai is by the way a cosmopolitan city.

(a) by the by

(b) by and large

(c) on the large

(d) No improvement

Q7. The bullet struck a wall and Was diverted from its course.

(a) twisted

(b) reflected

(c) deflected

(d) No improvement

Q8. Kannan asked me to go round with them, but I didn’t want.

(a) don’t want

(b) don’t want to

(c) didn’t want to

(d) No improvement

Q9. He had his breakfast, when we visited him.

(a) He had taken his breakfast

(b) He wished to have his breakfast

(c) He avoided his breakfast

(d) No improvement

Q10. The doctor reassured that the operation was a routine one.

(a) is reassuming

(b) reassured me

(c) was reassuming

(d) No improvement

ANSWERS:

1. a
2. b
3. b
4. b
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. c
9. a
10. b

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