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Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - IX

Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - IX

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Isocrates’ book on Athens contrasted the republicanism of the city state with what he saw as the militaristic and corrupt institutions of Sparta.

  1. with what he saw as
  2. with that which he saw to be
  3. to that he saw being
  4. and that which he saw as
  5. and what he saw to be
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Launched in 1997, the site increased its traffic more than double since then, and its revenue.

  1. increased its traffic more than double since then,
  2. has since increased its traffic more than double,
  3. has since more than doubled its traffic
  4. since then more than doubled its traffic
  5. more than doubled its traffic since then
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From 1991 on, standard of living in India has risen, but inflation and crime too.

  1. but inflation and crime too
  2. and also inflation and crime
  3. but so have inflation and crime
  4. and so also inflation and crime
  5. but so did inflation and crime
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Indicted by treacherous colleagues, the defence contractor was incarcerated for twenty three years before there was acquittal and his freedom.

  1. there was acquittal and his freedom
  2. he was to be acquitted with freedom
  3. being acquitted and freed
  4. acquittal and his freedom
  5. being freed, having been acquitted
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The satisfaction study concluded that people residing in small towns and villages consider themselves no more satisfied than do people living in metropolises.

  1. no more satisfied than do people living
  2. not any more satisfied than do people living
  3. not any more satisfied than do people who live
  4. no more satisfied than are people who are living
  5. not as satisfied as are people who live
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From 1993 to 2003, sales of new small cars increased between seven and twelve percent annually.

  1. From 1993 to 2003, sales of new small cars increased between seven and twelve percent annually.
  2. Seven to twelve percent is the annual increase in sales of new small cars in the years 1993 to 2003.
  3. Sales of new small cars have increased annually seven and twelve percent in the years 1993 to 2003.
  4. Annually an increase of seven to twelve percent has occurred between 1993 and 2003 in the sales of new small cars.
  5. Occurring from 1993 to 2003 was an annual increase of seven and twelve percent in the sales of new small cars.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From the animal hide the Jarawa crafted a vessel about eighteen feet long and three feet wide, with ribs and rails of bamboo, which could carry a couple of passengers or a few hundred kilograms of load so light that an oar could easily carry it around obstructing eddies.

  1. load so light
  2. load being so light
  3. load, yet being so light
  4. load, and so light
  5. load yet was so light
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From the time of its colonisation by the British in 1764 until its liberation in 1947, India was a resentful and torn country; a kind of internecine conflict raged in the society between those who wanted to cooperate with the British with those who opposed them.

  1. between those who wanted to cooperate with the British with those who opposed them
  2. between those who wanted to cooperate with the British and those who opposed them
  3. between those wanting to cooperate with the British with those opposing them
  4. among those who wanted to cooperate with the British and those who opposed them
  5. among those wanting to cooperate with the British with those opposing them
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Bryan’s conjecture of there being different faculties originating from different parts of the nervous system is widely accepted today.

  1. of there being different faculties originating from different parts of the nervous system is widely accepted today
  2. of different faculties that are originating from different parts of the nervous system is widely accepted today
  3. that different faculties are originating from different parts of the nervous system is widely accepted today
  4. which is that there are different faculties originating from different parts of the nervous system is widely accepted today
  5. which is widely accepted today is that there are different faculties originating from different parts of the nervous system
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Foreign direct investors, because of their increasing confidence in their ability for making sound investments in India, have been led to move from passive involvement in industrial joint ventures to active involvement in their own increasingly ambitious enterprises.

  1. Foreign direct investors, because of their increasing confidence in their ability for making sound investments in India, have been led
  2. Foreign direct investors, increasing confident about their ability for making sound investments in India, has led them
  3. Increasing confidence in their ability to make sound investments in India has led foreign direct investors
  4. Increasing confidence in their ability for making sound investments in India have led foreign direct investors
  5. Increasing confident about their abilities for making sound investments in India, foreign direct investors have been led
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