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SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUESTIONS
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Directions: In each of the following questions, a part of the sentence is italicised. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. If no improvement is needed, mark your answer as ‘No improvement’ or ‘no correction required’.
1. All the allegations leveled against him were found to be baseless.
(a) levelled for
(b) level with
(c) level against
(d) levelling with
(e) No correction required
2. Rohit is as fast as or perhaps faster than Manish.
(a) equally fast
(b) almost as fast
(c) as fast
(d) No correction required
3. I shall be grateful to you if you are of help to me now.
(a) would help
(b) help
(c) shall help
(d) No improvement
4. He cannot succeed in business because he works by fits and starts.
(a) with fits and starts
(b) fits and starts
(c) into fits and starts
(d) No improvement
5. He did many mischiefs.
(a) made many a mischiefs
(b) made much mischief
(c) committed many mischiefs
(d) No improvement
6. You may appoint whoever you think can do the job most efficiently.
(a) anybody you think
(b) someone you think
(c) whomever you think
(d) whomsoever you think
(e) No correction required
7. This carpenter is the most skilled of all the other carpenters in our workshop.
(a) carpenter
(b) of all other carpenters
(c) of the carpenters
(d) No improvement
8. He has said so out of affection, do not take it to heart.
(a) in heart
(b) it in the heart
(c) by the heart
(d) No improvement
9. I love the literature, the music , the art.
(a) literature, music and art
(b) the literature, music and art
(c) literature, the music and the art
(e) No improvement
10. Before I met Rajeev, I had had a poor opinion of him.
(a) had
(b) have had
(c) did have
(d) No improvement
ANSWERS:
- (e)
- (c)
- (b)
- (d)
- (d)
- (e)
- (a)
- (d)
- (a)
- (d)
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