Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Kelly was born in Greece to a German teacher.
b. He was educated at America.
c. He made name for himself in medicine.
d. He is now a paediatric heart surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital.
Answer: B
b and c are incorrect.
One is educated in a country, not at it - at is used of an institution. And c needs an article: made a name for himself.
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As the boxers advanced into the ring, the people said they would not allow them to fight.
Answer: D
No correction is required.
The reporting verb said is past, so the reported will becomes would. The tense sequence is consistent throughout.
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Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. I hope you will excuse my leaving early.
2. I hope you will excuse me leaving early.
3. I hope you will excuse mine leaving early.
4. I hope you will excuse leaving early.
Answer: A
It is sentence 1.
Excuse takes a possessive before the gerund - excuse my leaving. The object form me is common in speech but the possessive is the careful form, and mine is a pronoun that cannot precede a noun.
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He had not read half a dozen pages when the expression of his face begins to change.
Answer: C
It should read his face began to change.
The main clause is past - he had not read - so the when-clause must be past too. Begin takes either an infinitive or a gerund, and to change is the smoother of the two here.
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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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