English Grammar: Sentence Correction
Practice correcting grammatical errors in sentences including verb tenses, articles, subject-verb agreement, and word choice.
Questions
Directions: There is an underlined portion in the following sentence. This portion may have some mistakes. Choose the correct option from the options given below to improve the underlined portion.
You have published the article which had I not only suggested but also was anxiously waiting for.
- which I had not only suggest but also was anxiously waiting for
- which I had not only suggested but also was anxiously waiting for
- which had I not suggested only but also was anxiously waiting for
- which I had not only suggested but also anxiously waiting for
Directions: There is an underlined portion in the following sentence. This portion may have some mistakes. Choose the correct option from the options given below to improve the underlined portion.
The dams not only save the water of our rivers for irrigation but also they did other things.
- but also they do other thing
- yet they also do other things
- but also they do other things as well
- but also they do other things
Directions: There is an underlined portion in the following sentence. This portion may have some mistakes. Choose the correct option from the options given below to improve the underlined portion.
The time has came now when competition must give way to co-operation in every walk of life.
- The time have come now when competition must
- The time has come now then competition must
- The times have come now when competition must
- The time has come now when competition must
Directions: There is an underlined portion in the following sentence. This portion may have some mistakes. Choose the correct option from the options given below to improve the underlined portion.
Once when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was speaking to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stop to ask them a question.
- to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stopped to ask them a question
- to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, they stopped to ask them a question
- to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stopped to asked them a question
- to some peasants in Uttar Pradesh, he stopped to ask him a question
Directions: There is an underlined portion in the following sentence. This portion may have some mistakes. Choose the correct option from the options given below to improve the underlined portion.
The white tiger is one of the rarest wild animal not only in India but also in the world.
- The white tiger is one of rarest wild animals
- The white tigers are one of the rarest wild animals
- The white tiger is one off the rarest wild animals
- The white tiger is one of the rarest wild animals
Directions: The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to replace the underlined part.
Before the break up of joint family, the parents in old time continued to live with their children and grand children.
- the parent in old time continued to live with their children and grand children
- parents in old age continued to live with their children and grand children
- the parents in old age continued to live with their children and grand children
- the old parents in old time continued to live with their children and grand children
Directions: The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to replace the underlined part.
Inevitably, as urbanisation increases, old in India may find themselves a embarrassment to the young just as in the west.
- the old in India may find themselves an embarrassment to the young just as in the west
- the old in India may find themselves an embarrassment to young just as in the west
- old in India may find themselves an embarrassment to the young just as in west
- the old in India may find themselves a embarrassment to young just as in west
Directions: The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to replace the underlined part.
Old parents are either tucked away in some dark remote quarter or are shared around the year with other family members.
- and are shared round the year with other family members
- and are shared around the year with other members of the family
- or are shared round the year with other members of the family
- or are around the year shared with other family members
Directions: The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to replace the underlined part.
The old will have to be sent to old people's home, not out of callousness but simply as they cannot be accommodated.
- not out of callousness and because simply they cannot be accommodated
- not out of callousness but as they simply cannot be accommodated
- not out of callousness but simply because they cannot be accommodated
- not out of callousness but because they cannot be accommodated simply
Directions: The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to replace the underlined part.
Great strain put upon brain of students of having to remain constantly engaged in studies during several months in the year makes it necessary for the brain to have some rest.
- The great strain put upon brain of students of having to remain constantly engaged in studies during several months in the year
- Great strain put upon the brain of students of having to remain engaged constantly in studies during several months in the year
- The great strain put upon the brain of students of having to remain constantly engaged in studies during several months in the year
- The great strain put upon brain of students of having to remain engaged constantly in studies during several months in the year
The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to improve the sentence.
In formerly days a teacher was expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom; to whose words men would well to attend.
- In formerly days a teacher was expected to be an exceptional man of knowledge or wisdom
- In days a teacher was formerly expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom
- In former days a teacher was expected to be an exceptional man of knowledge or wisdom
- In former days a teacher was expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom
- No improvement
The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to improve the sentence.
In the middle age teaching became the exclusively prerogative of the church, with the result that there was little progress, either intellectual or social.
- the church's exclusively prerogative, with the result that there was little progress
- the church's exclusive prerogative, with the result that there was little progress
- the exclusive prerogative of the church, with the result that there was little progress
- the prerogative of the church, with the exclusive result that there was little progress
- No improvement.
The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to improve the sentence.
If Washington had strongly questioned the necessity and ethics of what Assange did, it may found a fair number of buyers for its argument.
- of what Assange did, it would have found a fair numbers of buyers for its argument.
- of what Assange did, it would have found a fair number of buyers for its argument.
- which Assange did, it may found a fair number of buyers for its argument.
- which Assange did, it would have found a fair number of buyers for its argument.
- No improvement.
The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to improve the sentence.
While swelling of gums and prolonged pain may be an indicator of leukemia, several sexually transmitted diseases could cause lesions on the tongue.
- When swelling of gums and prolonged pain may be an indication of leukemia,
- When swelling of gums and prolonged pain may be an indicator of leukemia,
- While swelling and prolonged pain of gums may be an indication of leukemia,
- When swelling and prolonged pain of gums may be an indicator of leukemia,
- No improvement.
The underlined portion of the following sentence has some errors. Four options are given below the sentence. Choose the correct option to improve the sentence.
The term 'hacking' originated probably in the 1960's while the modern computing system was evolving and people were studying computers in the labs of Massachusetts Institute of technology.
- The term 'hacking' originated probably in the 1960's when the modern computing system was evolving
- The term 'hacking' probably originated in the 1960's when the modern computing system was evolving
- The term 'hacking' probably originated in the 1960's while the modern computer system was evolving
- The term 'hacking' probably originated in the 1960's when the modern computer system was evolving
- No improvement.