Sentence Improvement
Verbal ability sentence improvement online free questions for competitive examination and entrance test preparation and practice
Questions
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
If you had arrived earlier, you would have found me in the bus.
- will find
- have found
- found
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
The robber entered into the old man's room very quietly.
- entered in
- entered inside
- entered
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
It is one and quarter hours since Harish went away.
- one and quarter
- one and quarter hour
- one hour and a quarter
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
Unless he does not leave this house, I will not say anything.
- had left
- left
- <font face="Arial">leaves</font>
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
As the summer vacation approaches, the number of tourists are increasing by leaps and bound.
- has increased by leaps and bounds
- increases by leaps and bounds
- are increasing by leaps and bounds
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
I could not help to laugh at the joke.
- laughing at
- laugh at
- to laughing at
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
My copy is as good or better than yours.
- as good as
- as good and better
- as good as or
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
While walking across the road a bus knocked him down.
- a bus knocked him
- he was by a bus knocked
- he was knocked down by a bus
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
We had to stop for diesel because we had hardly much left.
- some
- more
- any
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
The cat has not been lying on the sofa all day.
- The cat had not been laying on the sofa all day.
- The cat has been not lying on the sofa the entire day.
- The cat has not been laying on the sofa all day.
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark (4) as your answer.
A large number of houses has come up around Kolkata.
- is coming up
- are coming up
- had come up
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.
The rules of chess require that one made only one move at a time.
- makes
- make
- will make
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.
To struggle for freedom is not as rewarding as achieving it.
- Struggle
- To struglling
- Struggling
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.
The candidate will be interviewed between 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
- between 11 a.m. from 12 a.m.
- between 11 a.m. for 12 a.m.
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark(4) as your answer.
If I was you I would not sign the document.
- If I have been you
- If I were you
- Was I you
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.
'Arms and the Man' have been written by George Bernard Shaw.
- are written
- are being written
- has been written
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.
Since we are living in Bombay, we are unwilling to move to another city.
- Since we have been living
- Being that we are living
- Since we were living
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.
I prefer to ride than to walk.
- ride to walk
- riding than walking
- riding to walking
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.
He enjoys to tell stories to children.
- telling stories
- how to tell stories
- to narrate stories
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change, mark(4) as your answer.
By temperament the French are reserved, so they prefer to live in solitude.
- French people
- French
- some French
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.
If the forwards would have run faster, they would have scored more goals.
- would have run more fast
- had run
- had run faster
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.
The person who they are refering to is a good friend.
- whom
- which
- that
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.
Is the coffee so cool for you to drink?
- too cool that you can drink
- cool enough for you to drink
- enough cool to drink
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.
The short essay should not exceed more than two hundred pages.
- exceed
- exceed than
- more exceed
- No improvement needed
Directions: Choose the word/phrase which best replaces the italicised part in the sentence given below. If the sentence needs no change mark (4) as your answer.
Would you mind help me with these questions?
- helping
- to help
- of helping
- No improvement needed