Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Answer: D

It should read by your watch.

By your watch means according to it - the watch is the authority consulted. On your watch would mean physically upon it.

Answer: C

It should read though mother's milk.

The two halves of the sentence are in contrast, so a concessive conjunction is needed to introduce a clause. Inspite is not a word, and despite is a preposition, which cannot take the clause that follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: from

Differ takes from when it means to be unlike: the two proposals differ from each other. It takes with only in the quite separate sense of to disagree, and then the object is a person: I differ with you on that point. Since the sentence is about how the proposals are unlike one another, from is required. The related adjective and noun keep the same preposition: different from and a difference from. British usage also allows different to, and American different than before a clause, but different from is the form Indian examinations expect. A group of verbs takes a fixed preposition that must be memorised rather than reasoned out: differ from, abstain from, refrain from, prevent from, deter from, derive from and suffer from.

Answer: A

It is accepted.

To accept is to acknowledge or receive. To except is to leave out or exclude - a quite different verb that merely sounds alike, as the noun exception does beside acceptance.

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.