Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Answer: A

It should read for a three-year-old kid.

Adapt takes for before the person or purpose it is adapted to suit. Adapted to would need a thing being fitted to, and adapted from names the original.

Answer: A

It should read tunes.

To dance to someone's tune is the idiom for doing whatever they want. Music, songs and sounds all fit the literal picture but none of them is the phrase.

Answer: A

The correct option is (a) eminent

'Eminent' means a person who is successful, well-known, outstanding, etc. 
'Imminent' means about to happen or likely to occur, possible, etc.
Use of Imminent in a sentence: 
Imminent - The earthquake is imminent, so be prepared to face it.

Answer: C

It should read has been living in Asia since.

Since 1995 fixes a starting point and the living continues, which the present perfect continuous expresses. The simple present cannot be used with since.

Answer: A

It should read has led the poor jute farmers.

The subject is a sharp fall, which is singular - in prices of jute is a prepositional phrase and does not affect the agreement. Led is the past participle; lead spelt so is the present tense or the metal.

Answer: B

It should read use for.

The sentence needs a noun after no, and the noun is use. Have no use for something is the idiom for not needing it; utilize is a verb, and utility means usefulness in the abstract.

Answer: C

It should read how to break.

A logjam is broken - the image is of jammed logs on a river being freed. One does not see, mend or meet a logjam.

Answer: A

Answer is “have been saying “ because this is the correct form (continuous) of the tense. The villagers have been doing this action. Had implies an action that had happened in the past, though the sentence clearly indicates the act of expressing is a present action.

Answer: A

It should read tunes.

To dance to someone's tune is the idiom for doing whatever they want. Music, songs and sounds all fit the literal picture but none of them is the phrase.

Answer: A

Correct answer: write

After make in the active voice, the verb that follows takes the bare infinitive - no to. So made the students write. The verbs that behave this way form a small group: make, let, bid, see, hear, watch, feel and help, along with the modal auxiliaries. Hence let him go, I saw her leave, he helped me carry it. The curious exception is that make takes the full infinitive in the passive: the students were made to write the essay again. The to reappears when the sentence is turned round, which is why both forms are heard and why the two are confused. Writing fails because a gerund cannot follow make in this construction, and written would make the students the thing written rather than the writers.