Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. Ruby can do it alone and no body else can do it. 2. Ruby alone can do it and nobody else can do it. 3. Ruby can alone do it and nobody else can do it. 4. Alone Ruby can do it and no body else can do it.

It is sentence 2.Alone placed immediately after the subject means only Ruby, which is the sense wanted. Placed after the verb it would mean she can do it unassisted, and nobody is one word.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. To be intelligent is more essential than being hard working. 2. Being intelligent is more important than to be hard working. 3. For one to be intelligent is more important than being hard working. 4. Being intelligent is more essential than being hard working.

It is sentence 4.The two things compared must take the same grammatical form - two infinitives or two gerunds, not one of each. Sentences 1 and 2 mix them.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. When he had lost the book he searched it everywhere. 2. When he lost the book he searched for it everywhere. 3. When he lost the book he had searched for it everywhere. 4. When he lost the book he searched it up everywhere.

It is sentence 2.Search takes for before the thing sought - searched for it everywhere. Search without for means to examine a place or a person, so searched it would mean he searched the book itself.

Q: Although you examine it carefully you will notice some flaws.

It should read if.Although sets up a contrast, but examining carefully and finding flaws agree rather than conflict. If states the condition under which the flaws will be seen. Unless would be a negative condition, which reverses the sense again.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. Water blessed our nation this year and also cursed it. b. Downpours ended California's drought, and a dry summer season seared South Carolina. c. The Midwest still reels from flood. d. I brief my wife periodically.

b and d are incorrect.Sentence b joins two independent clauses with a comma and and, which is right, but its second half needs a subject that matches; the fault in d is of the same order.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. The typists had corrected the errors had they known that the supervisors would have seen the report. 2. The supervisors reprimanded the typists whom they believed had made careless errors. 3. The errors in the typed reports were so numerous that they could hardly be over-looked. 4. The typists had corrected the errors had they known that the supervisor would see the reports.

It is sentence 3.Sentence 1 puts the past perfect in the main clause and had they known in the conditional, reversing the pattern - a third conditional needs would have corrected in the main clause.

Q: He has fallen out with the girl he wanted to marry.

No improvement is required.Fall out with someone means to quarrel and cease to be friends, which the past tense wanted to marry supports. Fall in love takes with and would need the sentence rewritten, and fall for means to be deceived by or to become infatuated with.

Q: This carpenter is the most skilled of all the other carpenters in our workshop.

It should read of all carpenters.A superlative includes the thing it selects, so it cannot be compared with the others as if it stood outside the group. All the other belongs with a comparative - more skilled than all the other carpenters.

Q: He was so particular that he stood up and said, "Please give me the another one."

It should read the other one.Another is already a plus other, so the another is a doubled article. When a particular alternative is meant, the form is the other.

Q: He told his friends that he worked day and night because he might succeed in life.

It should read so that he might succeed.The clause gives his purpose, not his reason, and purpose is introduced by so that. Because would say that his success caused his working, which reverses the logic.

Direction for [ Question No: 121 To 130 ] :

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

121.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Ruby can do it alone and no body else can do it.
2. Ruby alone can do it and nobody else can do it.
3. Ruby can alone do it and nobody else can do it.
4. Alone Ruby can do it and no body else can do it.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

Alone placed immediately after the subject means only Ruby, which is the sense wanted. Placed after the verb it would mean she can do it unassisted, and nobody is one word.

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122.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. To be intelligent is more essential than being hard working.
2. Being intelligent is more important than to be hard working.
3. For one to be intelligent is more important than being hard working.
4. Being intelligent is more essential than being hard working.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

The two things compared must take the same grammatical form - two infinitives or two gerunds, not one of each. Sentences 1 and 2 mix them.

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123.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. When he had lost the book he searched it everywhere.
2. When he lost the book he searched for it everywhere.
3. When he lost the book he had searched for it everywhere.
4. When he lost the book he searched it up everywhere.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

Search takes for before the thing sought - searched for it everywhere. Search without for means to examine a place or a person, so searched it would mean he searched the book itself.

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124.

Although you examine it carefully you will notice some flaws.

A.Until
B.If
C.Unless
D.No improvement is required.

Answer: B

It should read if.

Although sets up a contrast, but examining carefully and finding flaws agree rather than conflict. If states the condition under which the flaws will be seen. Unless would be a negative condition, which reverses the sense again.

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125.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Water blessed our nation this year and also cursed it.
b. Downpours ended California's drought, and a dry summer season seared South Carolina.
c. The Midwest still reels from flood.
d. I brief my wife periodically.

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

Answer: B

b and d are incorrect.

Sentence b joins two independent clauses with a comma and and, which is right, but its second half needs a subject that matches; the fault in d is of the same order.

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126.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The typists had corrected the errors had they known that the supervisors would have seen the report.
2. The supervisors reprimanded the typists whom they believed had made careless errors.
3. The errors in the typed reports were so numerous that they could hardly be over-looked.
4. The typists had corrected the errors had they known that the supervisor would see the reports.

Answer: C

It is sentence 3.

Sentence 1 puts the past perfect in the main clause and had they known in the conditional, reversing the pattern - a third conditional needs would have corrected in the main clause.

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127.

He has fallen out with the girl he wanted to marry.

A.fallen off
B.fallen in love
C.fallen for
D.No improvement required.

Answer: B

No improvement is required.

Fall out with someone means to quarrel and cease to be friends, which the past tense wanted to marry supports. Fall in love takes with and would need the sentence rewritten, and fall for means to be deceived by or to become infatuated with.

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128.

This carpenter is the most skilled of all the other carpenters in our workshop.

A.carpenter
B.of all other carpenters
C.of all carpenters
D.No improvement required.

Answer: C

It should read of all carpenters.

A superlative includes the thing it selects, so it cannot be compared with the others as if it stood outside the group. All the other belongs with a comparative - more skilled than all the other carpenters.

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129.

He was so particular that he stood up and said, "Please give me the another one."

A.the another one to me
B.other one
C.the other one
D.No improvement is required.

Answer: C

It should read the other one.

Another is already a plus other, so the another is a doubled article. When a particular alternative is meant, the form is the other.

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130.

He told his friends that he worked day and night because he might succeed in life.

A.because he may succeed
B.so that he might succeed
C.as he may succeed
D.No correction required

Answer: B

It should read so that he might succeed.

The clause gives his purpose, not his reason, and purpose is introduced by so that. Because would say that his success caused his working, which reverses the logic.

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