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Sentence Correction Practice and Preparation Test for MBA Entrance, SAT, English, GMAT, CDS, SSC and Insurance Exams

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Among the cossacks, vegetable farming was once so despised that it was forbidden on pain of death.

  1. so despised that it was
  2. so despised to be
  3. so despised it had been
  4. despised enough that it was
  5. despised enough as to be
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

American productivity is declining in relation to Europe's; the energy expended per unit of production in the United States is as much as twice that expended in West Germany.

  1. as much as twice that expended in West Germany
  2. as much as twice that of West Germany's expenditure
  3. up to two times of West Germany's expenditure
  4. up to two times what West Germans expended
  5. up to double the West German expenditure
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Although the term “psychopath” is popularly applied to an especially brutal criminal, in psychology it is someone who is apparently incapable of feeling compassion or the pangs of conscience.

  1. it is someone who is
  2. it is a person
  3. they are people who are
  4. it refers to someone who is
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Although the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of case-by-case adjudication has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be drawn from “a fair cross section of the community.”

  1. has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
  2. was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
  3. was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the principle of all juries to be
  4. is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the sentence may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the best replacement for the underlined part.

Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.

  1. in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help
  2. in healing physical and mental ills and to thank her for helping
  3. in healing physical and mental ills, and thanking her for helping
  4. to heal physical and mental ills or to thank her for such help
  5. to heal physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

  1. were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal
  2. was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal
  3. were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing
  4. was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healing
  5. were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land, the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.

  1. basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California
  2. basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California
  3. basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California
  4. a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California
  5. a marketing and distribution system importing produce from Florida and California as its base
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An array of tax incentives has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build.

  1. so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that
  2. capital has been so abundant for commercial real estate, so that
  3. the abundance of capital for commercial real estate has been such,
  4. such has the abundance of capital been for commercial real estate that
  5. such has been an abundance of capital for commercial real estate,
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An attempt to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago, has been unsuccessful despite efforts by many important groups, including the National Organization for Women.

  1. to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago,
  2. begun almost two decades ago, for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment
  3. begun for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment almost two decades ago
  4. at ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, begun almost two decades ago
  5. that has begun almost two decades ago to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

An inventory equal to 90 days sales is as much as even the strongest businesses carry, and then only as a way to anticipate higher prices or ensure against shortages.

  1. as much as even
  2. so much as even
  3. even so much as
  4. even as much that
  5. so much even as
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

An unusually strong cyclist can, it is hoped, provide enough power to set a new distance record for human-powered aircraft in MIT’s diaphanous construction of graphite fibre and plastic.

  1. can, it is hoped, provide enough power to set
  2. it is hoped, can provide enough power that will set
  3. hopefully can provide enough power, this will set
  4. is hopeful to set
  5. hopes setting
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The underlined part of the sentence may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the best replacement for the underlined part. An artistic presence of the first order, one frequently ranked with Picasso, Stravinsky, and James Joyce, Martha Graham was acclaimed as a great dancer long before her innovative masterworks made her the most honored of American choreographers.

  1. Martha Graham was acclaimed as
  2. Martha Graham was acclaimed to be
  3. Martha Graham's acclaim is as
  4. Martha Graham's acclaim to be
  5. Martha Graham's acclaim was in being
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Analysts blamed May’s sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, colder and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.

  1. colder and wetter than was usual in some regions, which slowed
  2. which was colder and wetter than usual in some regions, slowing
  3. since it was colder and wetter than usually in some regions, which slowed
  4. being colder and wetter than usually in some regions, slowing
  5. having been colder and wetter than was usual in some regions and slowed
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Ancient Romans found it therapeutic to bathe in cold milk, in strawberries that had been crushed or in bathtubs filled with black caviar.

  1. to bathe in cold milk, in strawberries that had been crushed or in bathtubs filled with black caviar
  2. that they bathe in cold milk, in strawberries that had been crushed or in caviar that was black
  3. to bathe in cold milk, crushed strawberries or black caviar
  4. that they bathe in cold milk, crushed strawberries or black caviar
  5. to bathe in milk, strawberries or caviar
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Any medical test will sometimes fail to detect a condition when it is present and indicate that there is one when it is not.

  1. a condition when it is present and indicate that there is one
  2. when a condition is present and indicate that there is one
  3. a condition when it is present and indicate that it is present
  4. when a condition is present and indicate its presence
  5. the presence of a condition when it is there and indicate its presence
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Art museums do not usually think of their collections as capital or consider the interest income that would be generated if a portion of the capital would have been invested in another form.

  1. be generated if a portion of the capital would have been
  2. have been generated if a portion of the capital would have been
  3. be generated if a portion of the capital were
  4. be generated if a portion of the capital was
  5. be generated if a portion of the capital had been
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Artificial intelligence emerged during the late 1950s as an academic discipline based on the assumption that computers are able to be programmed to think like people.

  1. are able to be programmed to think like people
  2. were able to be programmed to think as people
  3. can be programmed to think as people can
  4. could be programmed to think like people
  5. are capable of being programmed to think like people do
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Archaeologists in Ireland believe that a recently discovered chalice, which dates from the eighth century, was probably buried to keep from being stolen by invaders.

  1. to keep from
  2. to keep it from
  3. to avoid
  4. in order that it would avoid
  5. in order to keep from
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision, it would be rated about 20/500, or legally blind if it were an adult with such vision.

  1. As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision, it would be rated about 20/500, or legally blind if it were an adult with such vision.
  2. A baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision that would be rated about 20/500, or legally blind as an adult.
  3. As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb, its rudimentary sense of vision would be rated about 20/500; qualifying it to be legally blind if an adult.
  4. A baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision that would be rated about 20/500; an adult with such vision would be deemed legally blind.
  5. As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb, its rudimentary sense of vision, which would be deemed legally blind for an adult, would be rated about 20/500.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Given below is a sentence with an underlined part. The underlined part may or may not have an error. Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to make the sentence correct. If the underlined part is correct as it is, mark (1) as your answer.

Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport.

  1. huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport
  2. without the benefits of animal transport or the wheel, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya
  3. the Maya built huge palace and temple clusters without the benefit of animal transport or the wheel
  4. there were built, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, huge palace and temple clusters by the Maya
  5. were the Maya who, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, built huge palace and temple clusters
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As a result of the continuing decline in the birth rate, less people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than did in the 1960's and 1970's, a twenty year period during which people born after the war swelled the ranks of workers.

  1. less people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than
  2. less people will be entering the labor force in the 1980's as
  3. fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980's as
  4. fewer people will be entering the labor force in the 1980's as
  5. fewer people will enter the labor force in the 1980's than
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As business grows more complex, students majoring in specialized areas like those of finance and marketing have been becoming increasingly successful in the job market.

  1. majoring in specialized areas like those of finance and marketing have been becoming increasingly
  2. who major in such specialized areas as finance and marketing are becoming more and more
  3. who majored in specialized areas such as those of finance and marketing are being increasingly
  4. who major in specialized areas like those of finance and marketing have been becoming more and more
  5. having majored in such specialized areas as finance and marketing are being increasingly
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As a result of the ground-breaking work of Barbara McClintock, many scientists now believe that all of the information encoded in 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely three percent of the cell's DNA.

  1. 50,000 to 100,000 of the different genes found in a human cell are contained in merely
  2. 50,000 to 100,000 of the human cell's different genes are contained in a mere
  3. the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in human cells are contained in merely
  4. 50,000 to 100,000 of human cell's different genes is contained in merely
  5. the 50,000 to 100,000 different genes found in a human cell is contained in a mere
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As contrasted with the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.

  1. As contrasted with the honeybee
  2. In contrast to the honeybee's
  3. Unlike the sting of the honeybee
  4. Unlike that of the honeybee
  5. Unlike the honeybee
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As a result of medical advances, many people that might at one time have died as children of such infections as diphtheria, pneumonia, or rheumatic fever now live well into old age.

  1. that might at one time have died as children
  2. who might once have died in childhood
  3. that as children might once have died
  4. who in childhood might have at one time died
  5. who, when they were children, might at one time have died
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