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ST-14 (Grammar Based)

Sentence Correction Test - 10

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. The unhealthy dampness of the fens
  2. made it desirable that
  3. the less robust of the youth
  4. should be transferred to
  5. the drier and healthier town
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. A perpendicular tower
  2. added a satisfying feature
  3. to the whole cluster of courts,
  4. but the feature was toned down
  5. by the action of weather
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. A strange legal dilemma,
  2. which cudgels our brains
  3. is to find the marks of distinction
  4. between attempted and contemplated crime,
  5. and then ignoring it
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. Those familiar with the aura
  2. of the historic buildings
  3. cannot feel that the aggressive bulk of the
  4. ill-conceived modern edifice
  5. is a crude invasion.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentence has been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. Being themselves ignorant and
  2. without having studied physiology, even in its rudiments,
  3. they do not appear to consider that
  4. they should at least abstain from teaching others
  5. till they have got something certain for themselves
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. But there are some things
  2. that need to pass over,
  3. to appreciate
  4. the profound skill of the architects
  5. No change required
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. Among different languages, even if we cannot suspect the least connection or communication,
  2. it is found that the words, expressive of ideas, the most compounded,
  3. do yet nearly correspond to each other:
  4. a certain proof that the simple ideas, comprehended in the compound ones,
  5. were bound together by some universal principle, which had an equal influence on all mankind
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. The inhabitants, not contented with the national gods,
  2. made each to himself one or more gods,
  3. which he supposed presided exclusively over his own household,
  4. from whom he supposed he derived his own peculiar happiness,
  5. from whom he attributed all his domestic misfortunes
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. In order to think correctly it is necessary to consider
  2. the whole of numeration, computation, and mathematical processes,
  3. as the division of the unit,
  4. into its component parts and
  5. the establishment of relations between these parts
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is grammatically correct and conveys the exact meaning of the sentence.

None of those little naughty boys have turned up today.

  1. None of those little naughty boys have turned up today.
  2. Neither of those little naughty boys have turned up today.
  3. None of those little naughty boys has turned up today.
  4. No one of those little naughty boys has turned up today.
  5. Neither of those little naughty boys has turned up today.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following sentences have been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. The capillaries of the part adjacent to the wound
  2. began to throw out minute buds and fine processes,
  3. which bridge the gap
  4. and form a firmer, but still temporary,
  5. connection between the two sides
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is grammatically correct and conveys the exact meaning of the sentence.

Let me tell you this is not simply possible.

  1. Let me tell you this is not simply possible.
  2. Let me tell you that this is not simply possible.
  3. Let I tell you this is simply not possible.
  4. Let me tell you that this is simply not possible.
  5. Let me tell you this is not possible.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is grammatically correct and conveys the exact meaning of the sentence.

Neither the students nor their teacher or the school came forward to tender an apology.

  1. Neither the students nor their teacher or the school came forward to tender an apology.
  2. None of the students or their teacher or the school came forward to tender an apology.
  3. Neither the students nor their teacher nor the school came forward to tender an apology.
  4. Neither the students nor their teacher nor even the school came forward to tender an apology.
  5. None including the students, their teacher, or the school came forward to tender an apology.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is grammatically correct and conveys the exact meaning of the sentence.

The higher your aspirations, greater the effort you need to put in.

  1. The higher your aspirations, greater the effort you need to put in.
  2. The higher your aspirations, the greater the effort you need to put in.
  3. The higher are your aspirations, greater the effort you need to put in.
  4. The higher your aspirations, the greater is the effort you need to put in.
  5. The higher your aspirations, greater the efforts you need to put in.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option that is grammatically correct and conveys the exact meaning of the sentence.

The councilor has not and will not file his nomination for re-election.

  1. The councilor has not and will not file his nomination for re-election.
  2. The councilor has not filed, nor will he file his nomination for re-election.
  3. The councilor has not filed, neither will he file his nomination for re-election.
  4. The councilor has not filed and will not file his nomination for re-election.
  5. The councilor has not and shall not file his nomination for re-election.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question consist of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.

A. Before it was impossible for civilised communities to ascertain with absolute accuracy whether crime was increasing or decreasing.
B. No data was available on which justice could be handed out.
C. Prisoners were sentenced in batches to the gallows, but no inquiry was made as to the result of these punishments on the progress of crime.
D. It was deemed sufficient to catch and punish the offender; the more offences seemed to increase the more severe the punishment became.

  1. Only A
  2. Only B
  3. A & B
  4. Only D
  5. A and D
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question consist of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.

A. Those who stand up for utility as the test of right and wrong, use the term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense in which utility is opposed to pleasure.
B. The same sorts of persons denounce utilitarianism "as impracticably dry when the word utility precedes the word pleasure, and as too practicably voluptuous when the word pleasure precedes the word utility."
C. Utility is not something to be contradistinguished from pleasure, but pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain.
D. Not only is the term ignorantly misapplied solely in disparagement, but occasionally in compliment; as though it implied superiority to frivolity and the mere pleasures of the moment.

  1. B and D
  2. A and C
  3. C and D
  4. D and A
  5. B and C
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question consist of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.

A. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food etc., as the only possible causes of variation.
B. Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species, have to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation.
C. It is quite conceivable that a naturalist might come to the conclusion that species have not been independently created, but had descended from other species.
D. Yet it is preposterous to attribute to mere external conditions, the structure of several species.

  1. Only A
  2. Only C
  3. A, B and C
  4. All of these
  5. None of these
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question consist of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.

A. Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
B. Of course it would be extremely difficult to estimate, however roughly, the relative numerical importance of both these series of facts.
C. But if we ask: "Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?"‌ we at once see that those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest.
D. They have more chances to survive, and they attain, in their respective classes, the highest development of intelligence and bodily organization.

  1. Only B
  2. Only C
  3. Only D
  4. B and C
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The following question consist of a set of four statements. One or more of the statements may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the statement(s) having the error.

A. One of the first points which strikes us is that individuals of the same variety of our older cultivated plants and animals generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any variety in a state of nature.
B. This great variability is due to our domestic productions having been raised under conditions of life not so uniform as those to which the parent species had been exposed under nature.
C. Organic beings must be exposed during several generations to new conditions to cause any great amount of variation.
D. When the organisation has once begun to vary, it generally continues varying for many generations.

  1. A, B & C
  2. A, B & D
  3. B, C & D
  4. D, C & A
  5. None of these
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