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Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - VII

Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - VII

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Although it claims to report on science, popular media can be flimsy such as when each of its three major constituents publish exactly the same result in a completely different manner.

  1. flimsy such as when each of its three major constituents
  2. flimsy, as can sometimes occur if all of the three major constituents
  3. flimsy if the three major constituents all
  4. flimsy whenever each of the three major constituents
  5. flimsy, as when the three major constituents each
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

After this season’s record-shattering performance, the team were touted as the country’s best cricket squad in decades; no critic or follower had anything but praise for the young cricketers.

  1. the team were touted as the country’s
  2. the team was touted as the country’s
  3. the country touted the team like the
  4. touting the team as the country’s
  5. they were touting the team as the country’s
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In an age when it was unusual to do it, Jamsetji Tata invested in such business ventures as an iron & steel company and a world class hotel.

  1. it was unusual to do it
  2. it was unusual to do so
  3. doing that was unusual
  4. that was an unusual thing to be doing
  5. it was not usual to do
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A multitude of tax incentives has led to a boom in manufacturing in the state; so abundant has capital been for new manufacturing ventures that investors regularly scour the state for sites at which to build new facilities.

  1. so abundant has capital been for new manufacturing ventures that
  2. capital has been so abundant for new manufacturing ventures, so that
  3. the abundance of capital for new manufacturing ventures has been such,
  4. such has the abundance of capital been for new manufacturing ventures that
  5. such has been an abundance of capital for new manufacturing ventures,
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Falling prices of property and land, the collateral against which builders borrow to get through the construction period, is going to force many banks to tighten or deny credit this season.

  1. the collateral against which builders borrow to get through the construction period, is
  2. which builders use as collateral to borrow against to get through the construction period, is
  3. the collateral which is borrowed against by builders to get through the construction period, is
  4. which builders use as collateral to borrow against to get through the construction period, are
  5. the collateral against which builders borrow to get through the construction period, are
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Eating nuts may significantly reduce the risk of diabetes and also aid for sufferers of migraine and anaemia, according to research studies published recently.

  1. significantly reduce the risk of diabetes and also aid for
  2. be significant in reducing the risk of diabetes and aid for
  3. significantly reduce the risk of diabetes and aid
  4. cause a significant reduction in the risk of diabetes and aid to
  5. significantly reduce the risk of diabetes as well as aiding
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Radiometric dating reveals that the Palaeolithic sites in southern peninsula are nearly 1,000 years as old as any of their presumed northern predecessors.

  1. as old as any of their presumed
  2. older than any of their presumed
  3. as old as their presumed
  4. older than any of their presumably
  5. as old as their presumably
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

India's tourism industry is suffering as a result of a recession, a set of bad policies, as well as the chilling effects of poor infrastructure that is persistent.

  1. as well as the chilling effects of poor infrastructure that is persistent
  2. and the chilling effect of poor infrastructure that is persistent
  3. but persistent poor infrastructure has had a chilling effect too
  4. and the chilling effects of persistent poor infrastructure
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Even though Cârvâka's philosophy has proved less popular than Basava's and less influential than Shankarcharya's, it is no less important.

  1. Basava's and less influential than Shankarcharya's, it
  2. Basava's and less influential than Shankarcharya's, he
  3. Basava's is and less influential than Shankarcharya's is, it
  4. Basava's and not as influential as Shankarcharya's, he
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Even though the government has spent more than a decade and a huge sum of money planning a dam on the river, the idea will have to be abandoned as a result of the river flow becoming so scanty.

  1. will have to be abandoned as a result of the river flow becoming so scanty
  2. is to be abandoned on account of the scanty flow which the river received
  3. had to be abandoned because the river flow had become so scanty
  4. has to be abandoned because of the river and its scanty flow
  5. must be abandoned because the river flow has become so scanty
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