Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. Flowers have always played a significant part in religious ceremony. b. Their perfumes have a distinct affect on the mind and its moods. c. The Arabians imported their perfumes from India,as they still do. d. Kannauj, in UP, is the heart of the perfume industry.

a and b are incorrect.Ceremony should be plural - religious ceremonies - since flowers have played a part in many. And affect is the verb; the noun required is effect: a distinct effect on the mind.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. Indian mineral resources are globally cost competitive. b. There is a sizeable reserve in quality ore in India. c. India's share of world output ranges from 2% to 12%. d. It can significantly rise with the coming years.

b and d are incorrect.A reserve is of ore, not in it. And in d, rise with the coming years should be rise in the coming years - with would make the years the means rather than the period.

Q: Miss Pillai teaches very well, isn't it?

It should read doesn't she?A question tag repeats the subject as a pronoun and uses the auxiliary of the statement. The subject is Miss Pillai, so the pronoun is she, and the present simple teaches takes does.

Q: Had there been no rain today, I would have forgotten my raincoat in my office.

No correction is required.Had there been is the inverted third conditional, and the main clause correctly takes would have forgotten. Each alternative breaks the perfect form the conditional requires.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. Pearl seldom or ever refuses an invitation. 2. Pearl seldom or always refuses an invitation. 3. Pearl seldom or never refuses an invitation. 4. Pearl seldom if never refuses an invitation.

It is sentence 3.Seldom or never is the fixed phrase - two negatives of degree paired for emphasis. Seldom or ever is a common corruption of it, and seldom if ever is the other correct form, but with if, not never.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. The IPI Award has become the most prestigious one in the country. b. It is open for print,visual,radio and internet media. c. The first award went to The Indian Express newspaper. d. It was because the in-depth coverage of the Gujarat riots.

b and d are incorrect.An award is open to a category of entrants, not open for them. And d needs because of before a noun phrase - because takes a clause, because of takes a noun.

Q: He is quite well now, except a slight cold.

It should read except for a slight cold.Except for introduces the one thing that qualifies an otherwise complete statement. Except alone is a preposition of exclusion from a group, which is not the sense here.

Q: He asked me why had I gone to the cinema late at night in spite of his clear instructions.

It should read why I had gone.Reported speech drops the question inversion and takes statement word order, and the tense shifts back one step: went becomes had gone after the past reporting verb asked.

Q: Since you swear to serve me faithfully and constantly, I will employ you.

No correction is required.Since introduces a reason, and the main clause looks forward, so will employ is right. Would employ would need a conditional if-clause, which the sentence does not have.

Q: He confirmed he knew the house in that my friend lived many years ago.

It should read that my friend lived in.In that is not a relative construction - the preposition either goes before which (in which my friend lived) or moves to the end after that. Both are correct; only in that is not.

Direction for [ Question No: 21 To 30 ] :

Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?

21.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Flowers have always played a significant part in religious ceremony.
b. Their perfumes have a distinct affect on the mind and its moods.
c. The Arabians imported their perfumes from India,as they still do.
d. Kannauj, in UP, is the heart of the perfume industry.

A.only a
B.a and b
C.only c
D.c and d

Answer: B

a and b are incorrect.

Ceremony should be plural - religious ceremonies - since flowers have played a part in many. And affect is the verb; the noun required is effect: a distinct effect on the mind.

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22.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Indian mineral resources are globally cost competitive.
b. There is a sizeable reserve in quality ore in India.
c. India's share of world output ranges from 2% to 12%.
d. It can significantly rise with the coming years.

A.a and c
B.b and d
C.a and d
D.b and c

Answer: B

b and d are incorrect.

A reserve is of ore, not in it. And in d, rise with the coming years should be rise in the coming years - with would make the years the means rather than the period.

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23.

Miss Pillai teaches very well, isn't it?

A.didn't she?
B.doesn't she?
C.wasn't it?
D.No improvement required.

Answer: B

It should read doesn't she?

A question tag repeats the subject as a pronoun and uses the auxiliary of the statement. The subject is Miss Pillai, so the pronoun is she, and the present simple teaches takes does.

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24.

Had there been no rain today, I would have forgotten my raincoat in my office.

A.I would forgot
B.I will have forgotten
C.I would had forgotten
D.No correction required

Answer: D

No correction is required.

Had there been is the inverted third conditional, and the main clause correctly takes would have forgotten. Each alternative breaks the perfect form the conditional requires.

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25.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Pearl seldom or ever refuses an invitation.
2. Pearl seldom or always refuses an invitation.
3. Pearl seldom or never refuses an invitation.
4. Pearl seldom if never refuses an invitation.

Answer: C

It is sentence 3.

Seldom or never is the fixed phrase - two negatives of degree paired for emphasis. Seldom or ever is a common corruption of it, and seldom if ever is the other correct form, but with if, not never.

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26.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. The IPI Award has become the most prestigious one in the country.
b. It is open for print,visual,radio and internet media.
c. The first award went to The Indian Express newspaper.
d. It was because the in-depth coverage of the Gujarat riots.

A.b and d
B.a and c
C.a,b and c
D.b,c and d

Answer: A

b and d are incorrect.

An award is open to a category of entrants, not open for them. And d needs because of before a noun phrase - because takes a clause, because of takes a noun.

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27.

He is quite well now, except a slight cold.

A.except with a slight cold
B.except for a slight cold
C.except to a slight cold
D.No improvement required.

Answer: B

It should read except for a slight cold.

Except for introduces the one thing that qualifies an otherwise complete statement. Except alone is a preposition of exclusion from a group, which is not the sense here.

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28.

He asked me why had I gone to the cinema late at night in spite of his clear instructions.

A.why did you go
B.why I had gone
C.why did I go
D.No correction required

Answer: B

It should read why I had gone.

Reported speech drops the question inversion and takes statement word order, and the tense shifts back one step: went becomes had gone after the past reporting verb asked.

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29.

Since you swear to serve me faithfully and constantly, I will employ you.

A.I would employ you
B.I will have employed you
C.I would have employed you
D.No correction required

Answer: D

No correction is required.

Since introduces a reason, and the main clause looks forward, so will employ is right. Would employ would need a conditional if-clause, which the sentence does not have.

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30.

He confirmed he knew the house in that my friend lived many years ago.

A.in that my friend had lived
B.in that my friend has lived
C.that my friend lived in
D.No correction required

Answer: C

It should read that my friend lived in.

In that is not a relative construction - the preposition either goes before which (in which my friend lived) or moves to the end after that. Both are correct; only in that is not.

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