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Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - VIII

Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - VIII

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Except for a rendition that the playwright himself rendered in 1883, Bhartendu’s political satire Andhernagari was not mass staged until 1921, forty years after its completion.

  1. Except for a rendition that the playwright himself rendered
  2. Except for a rendition with the playwright himself rendering it
  3. Besides a rendition being rendered by the playwright himself
  4. Excepting a rendition that the playwright himself rendered
  5. With the exception of a rendition with the rendering done by the playwright himself
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Three hundred slender-billed vulture chicks left their nests in northern India this spring, bringing to 2700 the number of chicks successfully raised since conservation efforts began in 1987.

  1. bringing
  2. and brings
  3. and it brings
  4. and it brought
  5. and brought
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Tax incentives now encourage investing capital in agricultural ventures despite utilisation rates in existing ventures that are exceptionally low and no demand for their products.

  1. investing capital in agricultural ventures despite utilisation rates in existing ventures that are exceptionally low and
  2. capital investment in agricultural ventures, even though utilisation rates in existing ventures are exceptionally low and there is
  3. capital to be invested in agricultural ventures even though there are exceptionally low utilisation rates in existing ventures with
  4. investing capital in agricultural ventures even though the utilisation rates are exceptionally low in existing ventures with
  5. capital investment in agricultural ventures despite utilisation rates in existing ventures that are exceptionally low, and although there is
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For all his avowed contempt of such pursuits, the scholar was quite a resolute Hollywood aficionado.

  1. For all his avowed contempt of such pursuits
  2. Having always avowed contempt for such pursuits
  3. All such pursuits were, he avowed, held in contempt, and
  4. Avowing that all such pursuits were held in contempt
  5. In spite of avowals of holding in contempt all such pursuits
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For many farmers, farm labour remains taxing even if able to afford agricultural technology their forefathers would find a miracle.

  1. even if able to afford agricultural technology their forefathers would find a miracle
  2. despite being able to afford agricultural technology their forefathers would find a miracle
  3. even if they can afford agricultural technology their forefathers would have found miraculous
  4. although they could afford agricultural technology their forefathers would find miraculous
  5. even if they are able to afford agricultural technology which would have been a miracle to their forefathers
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For most policy holders, the cost of health insurance continues to go up every year, even if free of hospitalisation claims and other sickness benefits.

  1. even if
  2. despite being
  3. even if they are
  4. although they may be
  5. even if remaining
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For many hikers, guided tours often turn out to be far more expensive than they originally seemed.

  1. they originally seemed
  2. they originally seem to
  3. they seemingly would cost originally
  4. it seemed originally
  5. it originally seemed they would
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For almost a century and a half after having its beginning in 1830, the British exiled some 3,000 freedom fighters to Burma.

  1. For almost a century and a half after having its beginning in 1830
  2. Beginning in 1830 for a century and a half
  3. Beginning almost a century and a half, in 1830
  4. During a century and a half, beginning in 1830
  5. Over a century and a half beginning in 1830
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For some reason the new market expert treats his audiences like imbeciles, talking to them like they were harebrained and unqualified to understand anything even slightly complicated.

  1. like imbeciles, talking to them like they
  2. as if they were imbeciles, talking to them like they
  3. like imbeciles, talking to them as if they
  4. as imbeciles, talking to them like they
  5. like imbeciles who
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For some mammals the sense of hearing seems to play a role in maintaining bearings, since mice with surgically removed cochlear nerve were found to have increased difficulties in staying balanced.

  1. were found to have increased difficulties
  2. have been found to have increased difficulty
  3. were found to have increasing difficulty
  4. had been found to have increased difficulties
  5. have been found to have increasing difficulties
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