SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS

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The following sentence may contain an error. You have to find that part of the sentence which contains the error. If there are no errors, choose (e) as your answer.

1. I have been living in this city since last several years but have never experienced any discrimination.
a) have been living
b) in this city
c) since last several years
d) have never experienced
e) No error

2. There was a big argument about if we should move to a bigger house.
a) There was
b) argument about
c) if we should
d) move to
e) No error

3. I found this bangle while digging in the backyard. I don’t know who it belonged to.
a) I found
b) while digging in
c) in the backyard
d) who it belonged to
e) No error

4. The judge paid a lot of attention to that the master had abused the boy both physically and emotionally.
a) The judge paid
b) a lot of attention
c) attention to that
d) master had abused
e) No error

5. By next Christmas, we will have been here for eight years.
a) By next Christmas
b) will have been
c) here
d) for eight years
e) No error

6. If it weren’t for the children, we haven’t had anything to talk about.
a) If it weren’t
b) for the children
c) we haven’t had
d) anything to talk about
e) No error

7. If I would have realized he was in trouble, I would have done something to bail him out.
a) If I would have realized
b) he was in trouble
c) I would have done
d) to bail him out
e) No error

8. Due to some unavoidable circumstances, the meeting was postponed indefinite, but the members could not be informed.
a) due to some unavoidable circumstances
b) the meeting was postponed
c) indefinite
d) the members could not be informed
e) No error

9. If you hadn’t phoned her we would never have found out what was happening.
a) if you hadn’t
b) phoned her
c) we would never have found out
d) what was happening
e) No error

10. He shouted at his secretary and told her that he does not need her service.
a) he shouted at
b) and told her
c) that
e) No error

ANSWERS:

1. c) since last several years
It should be ‘for the last several years’. To indicate duration, we use ‘for’. ‘Since’ is used to indicate the starting point of actions and situations.

2. c) if we should
It should be ‘whether we should’. After a preposition, we cannot use an if-clause. Instead, we use ‘whether’.

3. d) who it belonged to
It should be ‘to whom it belonged’. The sentence should read: I don’t know to whom it belonged. When the relative pronoun is the object of the relative clause, we use whom instead of who. Note that, in this case, the preposition normally goes before whom.

4. c) attention to that
It should be ‘attention to the fact that’. We cannot put a that-clause immediately after a preposition. In this case, we use the expression ‘the fact’ between the preposition and the that-clause.

5. No error

6. c) we haven’t had
It should be ‘we wouldn’t have’. When the verb in the if-clause is in the past simple tense, we use would + infinitive in the main clause.

7. a) If I would have realized
This part should be ‘if I had realized’. To talk about an imaginary situation in the past, we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.

8. c) indefinite
It should be ‘indefinitely’. Indefinite is an adjective, but we require an adverb here.

9. e) No error
To talk about imaginary situations, we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.

10. d) he does not need
This part should be ‘he did not need’
When the verb in the main clause is in the past tense, the verb in the subordinate clause, too, needs to be in the past tense.

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