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Sentence Correction

Practice identifying and correcting grammatical errors in sentences, including verb tense, mood, prepositions, and parallel structure.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

They were perturbed that the bank had begun switching some of its problem loans.

  1. had begun switching
  2. began switching
  3. was switching
  4. had been switching
  5. is switching
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option which replaces the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make it grammatically correct and meaningful.

Storms and severe weather conditions that we might have expected to occur once in 100 years in the past, will now be happening more frequently due to climate change.

  1. will now be happening more frequently due to climate change.
  2. might now be happening more frequently due to climate change.
  3. may now be happening more frequently due to climate change.
  4. may now be a regular feature due to climate change.
  5. would now be happening more frequently due to climate change.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option which replaces the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful

The gift that I received is very attractive, but it is very useful.

  1. is very useful
  2. is hardly of any use
  3. was of no use to me
  4. can be used marginally
  5. is outdated
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

The present day education system does not teach the students to think critically, innovatively and in an integrated manner.

  1. in an integrated manner
  2. in a manner that integrates knowledge
  3. in a integrated manner
  4. integratively
  5. in an integrating manner
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

I may not have known much about managing investments, but I think I am a great debt manager.

  1. may not have known
  2. might not know
  3. could not know
  4. may not know
  5. do not know
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

With her placid disposition she always got involved in family arguements.

  1. always got involved
  2. never got involved
  3. frequently got involved
  4. rarely got involved
  5. seldom got involved
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

In a secular, democratic country, one single religion cannot be impositioned by diktat.

  1. impositioned by diktat.
  2. superimposed by diktat.
  3. imposed by diktat.
  4. impositioned by dictum.
  5. imposed by dictum
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

The people threatened to hold protests till the officers who did not comply by the rules are suspended.

  1. comply by the rules
  2. comply with the rules
  3. comply to the rules
  4. comply the rules
  5. comply for the rules
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

The agitating demonstraters demanded that the police arrested the miscreants who had desecrated the temple.

  1. the police arrested
  2. the police should arrest
  3. the police arrest
  4. the police arrests
  5. the police would rather arrest
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

He behaves as if he is an exceptionally dumb person incapable of understanding even basic mathematics.

  1. he is an exceptionally dumb
  2. he were an exceptionally dumb
  3. he was an exceptionally dumb
  4. he had been an exceptionally dumb
  5. he would be an exceptionally dumb
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

If I were him, I would settle the matter there and then.

  1. were him
  2. was him
  3. had been he
  4. were he
  5. was he
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option which replaces the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make it grammatically correct and meaningful.

Unless we do not change our policies, we will not be able to change the trajectory in which our economy is giong.

  1. we do not change
  2. we change
  3. we have not changed
  4. we changed
  5. we will change
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

It is necessary that the major political parties spelt out their vision for India rather than attacking one another.

  1. spelt out
  2. should spell out
  3. spell out
  4. are spelling out
  5. had spelt out
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

The stars mainly consist of hydrogen and helium which produces nuclear reactions and energy.

  1. which produces nuclear reactions and energy.
  2. which may produce nuclear reactions and energy.
  3. which have produced nuclear reactions and energy.
  4. which produce nuclear reactions and energy.
  5. which produced nuclear reactions and energy.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

Life takes meaning not only from within, but from the outside world that determines one's direction of life.

  1. but from the outside world
  2. but also from the outside world
  3. but the outside world
  4. but the outside world also
  5. but from the world that is outside us
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