English Language

Sentence Improvement

821 Questions
All Tense and Time Sequence 181 Verb-Governed Prepositions 145 Lexical Confusables 75 Subject-Verb Agreement 59 Modifiers 48 Determiners and Quantifiers 47 Infinitive vs. Gerund 47 Correlative and Paired Conjunctions 35 Conditional Sentences 30 Pronoun Case and Agreement 24 Redundancy 24 Parallel Structure 20 Question Tags 10 Reported Speech 8

Sentence Improvement Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Give the appropriate replacement for the underlined word(s) in the given sentence to make it grammatically correct. If no improvement is needed, mark (4) as the answer.

Only rural development can rise the standard of living in villages.

  1. raise

  2. raised

  3. raising

  4. No improvement needed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Raise means 'to make higher, nurture and cause to grow. It is normally transitive, that is, the action is done to something or someone else.  

Multiple choice

Directions: Give the appropriate replacement for the underlined word(s) in the given sentence to make it grammatically correct. If no improvement is needed, mark (4) as the answer.

I love the literature, the music, the art.

  1. the literature, music and art

  2. literature, and the art

  3. literature, music and art

  4. No improvement needed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Delete 'the', as academic subjects(arts, music and literature) do not require an article.