Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. Many problems are staring at my face. 2. Many problems are staring in my face. 3. Many problems are staring me into my face. 4. Many problems are staring me in my face.

It is sentence 4.Stare someone in the face is the idiom, and it takes a personal object followed by in. Staring at my face or in my face describes where the eyes are pointed, not the idiom about an obvious fact.

Q: He insisted on his orders being carried out with the letter.

It should read to the letter.To the letter means exactly as instructed, down to the last detail. The preposition is fixed; with, by and for do not carry the sense.

Q: He does not smoke, nor he drinks.

It should read nor does he drink.Nor requires inversion of subject and auxiliary, exactly as neither does. Without the inversion the clause reads as a plain statement and the nor has nothing to do.

Q: He is hand and glove with my cousin for this new factory project.

It should read hand in glove.Hand in glove means in close and usually improper collaboration - the image is of a hand fitting a glove exactly. No other preposition is used with it.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate the loss to him. 2. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate him for the loss. 3. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate him in the loss. 4. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate his loss.

It is sentence 2.Compensate takes a person as its object and for before the thing lost - compensate him for the loss. Compensating a loss to someone reverses the pattern.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. My sister had left for America last week. 2. My sister has been left for America last week. 3. My sister has left for America last week. 4. My sister left for America last week

It is sentence 4.Last week is a finished period, so it takes the simple past. Neither the past perfect nor the present perfect can be used with an explicit past time expression.

Q: The substance of what he says about his life and work testify to a great reserve of inner energy.

It should read testifies to a great.The subject is the substance, which is singular; what he says about his life and work is a clause standing between the subject and the verb, and does not change the agreement. Testify takes to.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. The most tangible cost of modernization is environment. b. From the summit of Yu Shan to the coastal crags of Lunfung the landscape looks like one big fouled nest. c. 'Taiwan is filthy rich', as a Taiwanese friend put it. d. 'And you've got to spend some of it on environment".

Only a is incorrect.The most tangible cost of modernization is environment leaves out the noun that would make sense of it - the cost is environmental damage, or the cost is to the environment. As written, a cost is said to be an environment.

Q: Can you tell me what time is it?

No improvement is needed.Can you tell me what time it is would be the strictly correct indirect question, but the version given is what the question treats as acceptable, and the alternatives offered are worse - two of them keep the inversion and one changes the meaning.

Q: The cost of living has increased so much that he finds it difficult to make each end meet.

It should read to make both ends meet.Make both ends meet is fixed: both, not each, and the ends are plural because there are two of them - income and expenditure. The verb meet takes no to after make.

Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 20 ] :

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

11.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. Many problems are staring at my face.
2. Many problems are staring in my face.
3. Many problems are staring me into my face.
4. Many problems are staring me in my face.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

Stare someone in the face is the idiom, and it takes a personal object followed by in. Staring at my face or in my face describes where the eyes are pointed, not the idiom about an obvious fact.

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12.

He insisted on his orders being carried out with the letter.

A.for the letter
B.by the letter
C.to the letter
D.No correction required

Answer: C

It should read to the letter.

To the letter means exactly as instructed, down to the last detail. The preposition is fixed; with, by and for do not carry the sense.

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13.

He does not smoke, nor he drinks.

A.nor he does drink
B.neither he does drink
C.nor does he drink
D.No improvement required.

Answer: C

It should read nor does he drink.

Nor requires inversion of subject and auxiliary, exactly as neither does. Without the inversion the clause reads as a plain statement and the nor has nothing to do.

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14.

He is hand and glove with my cousin for this new factory project.

A.hand on glove
B.hand with glove
C.hand in glove
D.No correction required

Answer: C

It should read hand in glove.

Hand in glove means in close and usually improper collaboration - the image is of a hand fitting a glove exactly. No other preposition is used with it.

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15.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate the loss to him.
2. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate him for the loss.
3. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate him in the loss.
4. As one of his arms was amputated on account of an accident, the company will compensate his loss.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

Compensate takes a person as its object and for before the thing lost - compensate him for the loss. Compensating a loss to someone reverses the pattern.

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16.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. My sister had left for America last week.
2. My sister has been left for America last week.
3. My sister has left for America last week.
4. My sister left for America last week

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

Last week is a finished period, so it takes the simple past. Neither the past perfect nor the present perfect can be used with an explicit past time expression.

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17.

The substance of what he says about his life and work testify to a great reserve of inner energy.

A.testify for a great
B.testifies to a great
C.testified for a great
D.No correction required

Answer: B

It should read testifies to a great.

The subject is the substance, which is singular; what he says about his life and work is a clause standing between the subject and the verb, and does not change the agreement. Testify takes to.

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18.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. The most tangible cost of modernization is environment.
b. From the summit of Yu Shan to the coastal crags of Lunfung the landscape looks like one big fouled nest.
c. 'Taiwan is filthy rich', as a Taiwanese friend put it.
d. 'And you've got to spend some of it on environment".

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

Answer: A

Only a is incorrect.

The most tangible cost of modernization is environment leaves out the noun that would make sense of it - the cost is environmental damage, or the cost is to the environment. As written, a cost is said to be an environment.

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19.

Can you tell me what time is it?

A.What is the time now?
B.What time it is?
C.What is time?
D.No improvement required

Answer: D

No improvement is needed.

Can you tell me what time it is would be the strictly correct indirect question, but the version given is what the question treats as acceptable, and the alternatives offered are worse - two of them keep the inversion and one changes the meaning.

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20.

The cost of living has increased so much that he finds it difficult to make each end meet.

A.to make all ends meet
B.to make both ends meet
C.to make both end meet
D.No correction required

Answer: B

It should read to make both ends meet.

Make both ends meet is fixed: both, not each, and the ends are plural because there are two of them - income and expenditure. The verb meet takes no to after make.

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