Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. He did not report for work today. He must has gone to the party. 2. He did not report for work today. He must have gone to the party. 3. He did not report for work today. He must go to the party. 4. He did not report for work today. He must had gone to the party.

It is sentence 2.Must is a modal and takes the bare infinitive, so must have gone. A deduction about a past event always takes must have plus the past participle.

Q: I wish my bus did not arrive so late; then I could have reached home before breakfast.

It should read had not arrived.I wish about a past event takes the past perfect - I wish it had not arrived. The past simple after wish refers to a present state, which the second clause's could have reached rules out.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. One subject you didn't dare discuss about in front of our manager was his height. b. Or should I say,his lack of it. c. One day he announced angrily, "someone just picked my pocket!". d. A colleague blurted,"How could anyone stoop so low?"

a and d are incorrect.Discuss is transitive and takes no preposition - dare discuss in front of, not discuss about. The fault in d is of the same order.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I was to go there. 2. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I have to go there. 3. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I am to go there. 4. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I was to have gone there.

It is sentence 4.The cancellation is present perfect and the arrangement it cancels lies in the past, so the concessive clause needs a past form that matches. Sentences 1 to 3 leave the two halves in different times.

Q: In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.Each of the rooms have its own attached bathroom.

Correct answer: hasEach is singular and governs the verb, so each of the rooms has its own attached bathroom. The plural rooms is the object of of and cannot be the subject. Deleting the phrase leaves each has its own bathroom, which settles it. The possessive its later in the sentence confirms the reading: a singular pronoun requires a singular verb, and the examiner has left that clue in place. Had the sentence read their own bathroom, the mismatch would have been visible from the other direction. The whole group of singular indefinites behaves this way: each, every, either, neither, one, everyone, anyone, somebody and nobody. Have is also a stative verb here, meaning to possess, so the continuous forms offered are wrong on a second count.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. Can i get this sense of wonder into the film ? b. So people looking it can feel it too. c. That's the challenge of place like Easter Island. d. To reach people who will never be able to go there

b and c are incorrect.Sentence b needs looking at it - look is intransitive and takes at before its object. Sentence c needs an article: the challenge of a place like Easter Island.

Q: He told me that he would kill you if I did not pay back his loan.

It should read he would kill me.The threat was made to the speaker, so in reported speech the second person you becomes the first person me. Will also becomes would after the past reporting verb told.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. As the train which was my usual was missing I had to travel. 2. Having missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel. 3. I missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel by the next. 4. I missed not only the train which I usually catch but had to travel on the next.

It is sentence 3.Sentence 2 joins a participle phrase to a finite verb with and, which leaves no subject for had to travel. Sentence 3 supplies a subject and keeps both verbs finite.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. You cannot win my confidence until you are sincere. 2. When he lost the book he searched it everywhere. 3. She was intent to harm her friends. 4. I have not met my friend for the last five days.

It is sentence 1.Sentence 2 needs searched for it - search takes for before the thing sought. Sentence 3 needs intent on harming, since intent takes on and a gerund.

Q: If you come across my umbrella anywhere, bring it to me, can you?

It should read will you?An imperative takes will you as its tag, since there is no auxiliary in the sentence to repeat. Can you would ask about ability rather than making the request.

Direction for [ Question No: 81 To 90 ] :

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

81.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. He did not report for work today. He must has gone to the party.
2. He did not report for work today. He must have gone to the party.
3. He did not report for work today. He must go to the party.
4. He did not report for work today. He must had gone to the party.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

Must is a modal and takes the bare infinitive, so must have gone. A deduction about a past event always takes must have plus the past participle.

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82.

I wish my bus did not arrive so late; then I could have reached home before breakfast.

A.had not arrived
B.does not arrive
C.has not arrived
D.No improvement is required.

Answer: A

It should read had not arrived.

I wish about a past event takes the past perfect - I wish it had not arrived. The past simple after wish refers to a present state, which the second clause's could have reached rules out.

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83.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. One subject you didn't dare discuss about in front of our manager was his height.
b. Or should I say,his lack of it.
c. One day he announced angrily, "someone just picked my pocket!".
d. A colleague blurted,"How could anyone stoop so low?"

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

Answer: C

a and d are incorrect.

Discuss is transitive and takes no preposition - dare discuss in front of, not discuss about. The fault in d is of the same order.

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84.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I was to go there.
2. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I have to go there.
3. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I am to go there.
4. Now I have cancelled my meeting though I was to have gone there.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

The cancellation is present perfect and the arrangement it cancels lies in the past, so the concessive clause needs a past form that matches. Sentences 1 to 3 leave the two halves in different times.

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85.

In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.

Each of the rooms have its own attached bathroom.

A.has
B.were having
C.are having
D.No improvement

Answer: D

Correct answer: has

Each is singular and governs the verb, so each of the rooms has its own attached bathroom. The plural rooms is the object of of and cannot be the subject. Deleting the phrase leaves each has its own bathroom, which settles it. The possessive its later in the sentence confirms the reading: a singular pronoun requires a singular verb, and the examiner has left that clue in place. Had the sentence read their own bathroom, the mismatch would have been visible from the other direction. The whole group of singular indefinites behaves this way: each, every, either, neither, one, everyone, anyone, somebody and nobody. Have is also a stative verb here, meaning to possess, so the continuous forms offered are wrong on a second count.

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86.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Can i get this sense of wonder into the film ?
b. So people looking it can feel it too.
c. That's the challenge of place like Easter Island.
d. To reach people who will never be able to go there

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

Answer: B

b and c are incorrect.

Sentence b needs looking at it - look is intransitive and takes at before its object. Sentence c needs an article: the challenge of a place like Easter Island.

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87.

He told me that he would kill you if I did not pay back his loan.

A.he would kill me
B.he will kill me
C.he would have killed you
D.No correction required

Answer: A

It should read he would kill me.

The threat was made to the speaker, so in reported speech the second person you becomes the first person me. Will also becomes would after the past reporting verb told.

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88.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. As the train which was my usual was missing I had to travel.
2. Having missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel.
3. I missed the train which I usually catch and had to travel by the next.
4. I missed not only the train which I usually catch but had to travel on the next.

Answer: C

It is sentence 3.

Sentence 2 joins a participle phrase to a finite verb with and, which leaves no subject for had to travel. Sentence 3 supplies a subject and keeps both verbs finite.

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89.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. You cannot win my confidence until you are sincere.
2. When he lost the book he searched it everywhere.
3. She was intent to harm her friends.
4. I have not met my friend for the last five days.

Answer: A

It is sentence 1.

Sentence 2 needs searched for it - search takes for before the thing sought. Sentence 3 needs intent on harming, since intent takes on and a gerund.

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90.

If you come across my umbrella anywhere, bring it to me, can you?

A.isn't it?
B.don't you?
C.will you?
D.No improvement required.

Answer: C

It should read will you?

An imperative takes will you as its tag, since there is no auxiliary in the sentence to repeat. Can you would ask about ability rather than making the request.

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