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Sentence Correction Practice - Grammar and Syntax

Practice questions for improving English grammar and sentence structure skills across various topics

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A recent study report contends that although genetic predisposition and antenatal factors greatly determine a child's intelligence quotient and emotional well-being, influences during childhood have at least as important a bearing on a child's overall development.

  1. greatly determine a child's intelligence quotient and emotional well-being, influences during childhood have at least as important a bearing on a child's overall development
  2. greatly determined a child's intelligence quotient and emotional well-being, influences during childhood have at least as important a bearing on a child's overall development
  3. greatly determine a child's intelligence quotient and emotional well-being, childhood influences have at least as important a bearing on a child's overall development
  4. greatly determines a child's intelligence quotient and emotional well-being, influences during childhood has at least as important a bearing on a child's overall development
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Physicians of the19th century, as a means to cure, often used bloodletting that was popular primarily because of the influence of Greek medicine.

  1. bloodletting that was popular primarily because of the influence of Greek medicine
  2. bloodletting that, primarily because of the influence of Greek medicine, was popular
  3. bloodletting, which, primarily because of the influence of Greek medicine, was popular
  4. bloodletting, which was popular primarily because of the influence of Greek medicine
  5. bloodletting, a practice that was popular primarily because of the influence of Greek medicine
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The trees from genus Olea, some of them over thousand of years old, are among the longest living trees in the world, just as trees of Taxus genus are, yet they are so under-researched that science has not been able to find the reasons for their longevity.

  1. The trees from genus Olea, some of them over thousand of years old, are among the longest living trees in the world just as trees of Taxus genus are, yet they
  2. The trees from genus Olea, some of them over thousands of years old, are among the longest living trees in the world, just as the trees of genus Taxus are, but they
  3. Like the trees from genus Taxus, the trees from genus Olea are among the longest living trees in the world, some of them over a thousand years old, but they
  4. Although, like the trees of genus Taxus, the trees of genus Olea are some of the longest living trees, some of them over thousands of years old, yet
  5. The trees of the genus Taxus and Olea are among the longest living trees, some of them over thousands of years old, yet they
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

To put the flagging economy back on track, Americans would have to do a great deal more than now about the burgeoning economic and trust deficit.

  1. would have to do a great deal more than now about the burgeoning economic and trust deficit
  2. have to do a great deal more than they do now about the burgeoning economical and trust deficit
  3. would have to do a great deal more than they do now about the burgeoning economical and trust deficit
  4. have to do a great deal more than they do now about the burgeoning economic and trust deficit
  5. will have to do a great deal more than they do now about the burgeoning economic and trust deficit
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Scientists have found that mole rats, having been exposed to high levels of cancer causing gamma radiation, and thus having lowered immunity levels, nevertheless produce antibodies at similar levels, and as readily as unexposed mole rats do.

  1. thus having lowered immunity levels, nevertheless produce antibodies at similar levels, and as readily as unexposed mole rats do
  2. having thus lowered immunity levels, should produce similar levels of antibodies as, and as readily as unexposed mole rats do
  3. thus never have similar immunity levels to unexposed mole rats, still produce similar levels of antibodies as them and equally readily too
  4. thus having lowered immunity levels, nevertheless produce similar levels of antibodies, and as readily that unexposed mole rats do
  5. thereby have lowered immunity levels, nonetheless manage to produce similar antibodies, and just as readily as unexposed mole rats do
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The metals used in new-age automobiles are different than the ones used in older automobiles because they are more lightweight and stronger.

  1. are different than the ones used in older automobiles because they are more lightweight and stronger
  2. are different than those used in older vehicles because the new-age metals are more lightweight and stronger
  3. differ from those used in older automobiles in that the new-age automobiles are more lightweight but stronger
  4. differ from those used in older automobiles because these metals are more lightweight yet stronger
  5. are different from the ones used in old age automobiles because these automobiles are more lightweight yet stronger
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

During a high tide, the gravitational pull of the moon causes tides in oceans, like a soft drink that travels up a straw when sucked upon.

  1. like a soft drink that travels up a straw when sucked upon
  2. like the upward movement of a soft drink through a straw when sucked upon
  3. like a soft drink that travels up a straw while being sucked upon
  4. just as sucking on a straw makes a soft drink travel up
  5. just as a soft drink travels up when sucked through a straw
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A large fall in the inflows from Foreign Institutional Investors in the coming year is expected to reduce investments in Capital Markets by several billion dollars, making the Capital Market's economic health much more precarious than in the entire last decade.

  1. making the Capital Market's economic health much more precarious than in the entire last decade
  2. and make the Capital Market's economic health more precarious than it was in the entire last decade
  3. making the Capital Markets' economic health much more precarious than it has been in the entire last decade
  4. making the Capital Markets' economic health much more precarious than they have been in the last entire decade
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to a science magazine, discovering 'anti-matter' is still a fantasy of most young nuclear physicists, like that of earlier generations of nuclear physicists.

  1. like that of earlier generations
  2. as those from earlier generations
  3. like had earlier generations
  4. as it was of earlier generations
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