Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
The patient could have been saved if he had been taken to the hospital in time.
Answer: D
No improvement is required.
Could have been saved is the perfect passive modal, which is what a missed possibility in the past requires, and it matches the third conditional if-clause had been taken.
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The teacher gave the students some advice.
Answer: D
No improvement is required.
Advice is an uncountable noun and has no plural, so some advice is right and advices is wrong. Advise with an s is the verb.
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The passengers are waiting for the bus outside the bus stand at the main gate for long.
Answer: C
It should read have been waiting.
For long means the waiting began earlier and continues, which the present perfect continuous expresses. The plain present continuous says nothing about how long it has gone on.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Its hazardous to use a handheld cell phone while driving.
b. So many people turn to hands-free models.
c. But they are also dangerous ,says researchers,
d. Distractions, it was shown,weakens concentration.
Answer: C
a and c are incorrect.
Sentence a needs the contraction with its apostrophe - it's hazardous, meaning it is. Sentence c has a space before its comma and needs the comma tight against the preceding word.
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She was too clever to see through his tricks.
Answer: D
No improvement is required.
See through means to perceive the deception behind something, which is what one does to tricks. See into means to investigate, see to means to attend to, and see alone would mean merely to observe them.
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Writer is not necessarily at a disadvantage because he writes in a language other than his mother tongue.
Answer: C
It should read a writer is not necessarily.
Writer is a countable noun and needs an article when used in the singular to stand for the class. The rest of the sentence is sound.
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I love the literature, the music, the art.
Answer: A
It should read literature, music and art.
These are uncountable nouns used in a general sense, so they take no article. And a list of three needs and before the last item rather than a bare comma.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The team is confident to win the match.
2. The team is confident of winning the match.
3. The team is confident of win the match.
4. The team is confident for winning the match.
Answer: B
It is sentence 2.
Confident takes of and a gerund - confident of winning. Confident to is not English, and of win puts a bare verb after a preposition.
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Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. I helped the polio vaccine for the children.
b. I would give a lump of sugar to each child.
c. The health assistant would squeeze a drop of the solution into each lump.
d. Then I checked if the children had all swallowed.
Answer: D
a and d are incorrect.
Sentence a says the speaker helped the vaccine, which is not what a person does to a vaccine - the verb wanted is administered or gave. The fault in d is of the same kind.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The important lessons are following.
2. The important lessons are as following.
3. The important lessons are as follows.
4. The important lessons are as follow.
Answer: C
It is sentence 3.
As follows is a fixed phrase and never takes a plural, however plural the subject - the lessons are as follows. The verb agrees with an understood it, not with the lessons.
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