100+SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS

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Directions: In each of the following questions, a part of the sentence is italicized. Below are given alternatives to the italicized part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. If no improvement is needed, mark your answer as ‘No improvement’.
1. He may have aged when I last saw him.
(a) since I saw him
(b) since I last saw him
(c) before I last saw him
(d) No improvement
2. I would like to avail a fifteen days holiday this summer.
(a) to avail myself
(b) to avail of
(c) to avail myself of
(d)No improvement
3. Work hard lest you will fail in the examinations.
(a) lest you would fail
(b) lest you should fail
(c) lest you shall fail
(d) No improvement
4. The weather of Shimla does not suit me.
(a) climate
(b) atmosphere
(c) environment
(d) No improvement
5. I think in my opinion that all those who claim to be honest are not really so.
(a) In my opinion, I believe
(b) It seems to me
(c) It is my believing
(d) My believing is
(e) No improvement
6. It was a week since he came home to his mother.
(a) is a week
(b) shall be a week
(c) has been a week
(d) had been a week
(e) No improvement
7. This project would encourage development and enable every villager to govern their own destiny.
(a) to govern his
(b) to governing his
(c) may governed their
(d) have governed their
(e) No improvement
8. The workers protested the Management’s decision of not giving bonus that year.
(a) protested to
(b) protested against
(c) protested at
(d) protested for
(e) No improvement
9. All along the journey she remained silent.
(a) All along in the journey
(b) All during the journey
(c) All through the journey
(d) Throughout all journey
(e) No improvement
10. He is ill from typhoid.
(a) with
(b) of
(c) off
(d) No improvement