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English Sentence Correction

Practice identifying and correcting grammatical errors in sentences, including word placement, subject-verb agreement, and proper sentence structure.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The author's remarkable first book is the story of her meandering journey up the river Indus from its mouth near Karachi to its source in Tibet.

  1. remarkable first book is the story of her meandering journey up
  2. first book remarkably is the story of her meandering journey up
  3. remarkably first book is the story of her meandering journey on
  4. remarkably first book was the story of her meandering journey on
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The most interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those among 1588 and 1603, within which limit all of Shakespeare's poems and the majority of his plays were written.

  1. The most interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those among
  2. An interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those among
  3. The interesting and the important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature is undoubtedly those between
  4. The most interesting and important 15 years in the records of English dramatic literature are undoubtedly those between
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves were helped to learn dealing with rejection during the 1990s, so that they could learn to handle disappointments without getting depressed.

  1. As a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves were helped to learn dealing with rejection during the 1990s,
  2. As a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to live during the 1990s rehabilitation were helped to learn dealing with rejection,
  3. Petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves during the 1990s were helped to learn to deal with rejection as a part of their vocational training,
  4. During the 1990s, as a part of their vocational training, petty criminals trying to rehabilitate themselves were helped to learn dealing with rejection,
  5. During the 1990s, as a part of vocational training, petty criminals were helped to rehabilitate themselves and deal with rejection,
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Although this theory was known in the East to the ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and Greeks, still it has received a new impetus and grown with new strength since the introduction of the Darwinian theory of the evolution of species.

  1. the ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and Greeks, still it has received
  2. the ancient Vedanta philosophers, the Buddhists and the Greeks, it has received
  3. the ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and the Greeks, still it has received
  4. ancient Vedanta philosophers, the Buddhists and Greeks, it has received
  5. ancient Vedanta philosophers, Buddhists and Greeks, still it has received
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In addition to providing energy and nutrition, certain foods trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, just as circadian rhythms do, and these have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer.

  1. certain foods trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, just as circadian rhythms do, and these have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer
  2. certain foods trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, like circadian rhythms do, and these have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer
  3. certain foods and circadian rhythms both trigger the production of sleep hormones in the human body, and they have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer
  4. the production of sleep hormones in the human body is triggered both by certain foods and by circadian rhythms, and they have a relaxing effect like a tranquilizer
  5. the production of sleep hormones in the human body is triggered by certain foods, just as with circadian rhythms, and these have a relaxing effect like that of a tranquilizer
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The magazine contains a considerable number of words, and a few consecutive texts transcribed partly or wholly in the new system of spelling and these necessarily will have to be assessed as evidence of contemporary English pronunciation by students of the subject.

  1. and a few consecutive texts transcribed partly or wholly in the new system of spelling and these necessarily will have
  2. along with a few consecutive texts partly or as a whole in the new system of spelling and these are
  3. which have a few consecutive texts, transcribed in part or wholly in the new system of spelling and these have
  4. and consecutive texts which are transcribed as a part or in whole in the new system and might have
  5. and a couple of consecutive texts, transcribed partly or wholly in the new system of spelling and these necessarily would
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

As the college tuition fees and other expenses skyrocket, students self-financing their studies are caught in a dilemma, these students can no longer afford to pay exorbitant college fees, and high aspirations do not allow them to drop out.

  1. these students can no longer afford to pay exorbitant college fees, and
  2. in that these students can no longer afford exorbitant college fees to be paid, and
  3. for these students can no longer afford to pay college fees, yet
  4. and these students can no longer afford to pay college fees, nevertheless
  5. and these students can no longer afford to pay college fees, for
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Home owners who insulate their walls and windows properly can substantially reduce their homes' power bills, since improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of electricity.

  1. Home owners who insulate their walls and windows properly can substantially reduce their homes' power bills, since improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of power.
  2. Because improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of electricity of a home through heat loss, home owners can substantially reduce their homes' power bills by properly insulating walls and windows of their homes.
  3. Their homes' electricity bills are substantially reduced by home owners by proper insulation of walls and windows which, when improperly insulated, can waste upto ten percent electricity.
  4. The proper insulation of walls and windows by the home owners, due to the fact that improper insulation can waste upto ten percent of a home's energy by increase in heat loss, can reduce the power bills of homes.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Physicists believe that the limit of the forward swing of a pendulum, is dictated as much by momentum as by gravity, unfailingly bring it back to equilibrium.

  1. is dictated as much by momentum as by gravity unfailingly bring it back to equilibrium
  2. dictated as much by momentum as by gravity, unfailingly bring it back to equilibrium
  3. dictated as much by momentum as gravity unfailingly brings the pendulum back to equilibrium
  4. dictated as much by momentum as by gravity, unfailingly brings the pendulum back to equilibrium
  5. is responsible for bringing it back to equilibrium due to the action of momentum and gravity
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Either Foreign Institutional Investors buying in or Mutual Fund Houses selling out can, along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention, be the reasons contributing to the performance of the Capital Market.

  1. can, along with the degree of Central Bank intervention, be the reasons contributing to
  2. along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention, can be the contributing reasons in
  3. can, along with the degree of Federal reserve intervention, contribute as reasons to
  4. can be the contributing reason to, along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention
  5. can contribute, along with the degree of Federal Reserve intervention, to
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The hulls of modern nuclear powered submarines differ from those of diesel powered ones because they are covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of normal paint.

  1. because they are covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of
  2. because of being covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating rather than
  3. the hulls of nuclear powered submarines being covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of being coated with
  4. in that the hulls of nuclear powered submarines are covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating rather than
  5. in their being covered with a vibration absorbing anechoic coating instead of
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