Sentence Improvement Questions and Answers

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. The IPI Award has become the most prestigious one in the country. b. It is open for print,visual,radio and internet media. c. The first award went to The Indian Express newspaper. d. It was because the in-depth coverage of the Gujarat riots.

b and d are incorrect.An award is open to a category of entrants, not open for them. And d needs because of before a noun phrase - because takes a clause, because of takes a noun.

Q: He is quite well now, except a slight cold.

It should read except for a slight cold.Except for introduces the one thing that qualifies an otherwise complete statement. Except alone is a preposition of exclusion from a group, which is not the sense here.

Q: He asked me why had I gone to the cinema late at night in spite of his clear instructions.

It should read why I had gone.Reported speech drops the question inversion and takes statement word order, and the tense shifts back one step: went becomes had gone after the past reporting verb asked.

Q: Since you swear to serve me faithfully and constantly, I will employ you.

No correction is required.Since introduces a reason, and the main clause looks forward, so will employ is right. Would employ would need a conditional if-clause, which the sentence does not have.

Q: He confirmed he knew the house in that my friend lived many years ago.

It should read that my friend lived in.In that is not a relative construction - the preposition either goes before which (in which my friend lived) or moves to the end after that. Both are correct; only in that is not.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. There is no meaning in what you say. 2. There is no meaning in that you say. 3. There is no meaning as to what you say. 4. There is no meaning that you say.

It is sentence 1.What here is a relative pronoun meaning the thing which, and it is the object of say. That cannot introduce a noun clause after in, and as to what is redundant after meaning.

Q: Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences: a. Lina was born in the Czech village of Novemetro. b. She grew up in warm and loving general store. c. Her father owned the towns general store. d. Her mother helped the customers.

b and c are incorrect.Sentence b needs an article - grew up in a warm and loving general store. Sentence c needs the possessive apostrophe: the town's general store.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. The teacher asked the students to thoroughly study this book. 2. The teacher asked the students thoroughly to study this book. 3. The teacher asked thoroughly the students to study this book. 4. The teacher asked the students to study thoroughly this book.

It is sentence 4.The adverb belongs next to the verb it modifies, and thoroughly modifies study, so it goes immediately after it. Sentence 3 makes thoroughly modify asked instead, which changes the meaning.

Q: Select the grammatically correct sentence: 1. An one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets. 2. A one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets. 3. The one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets. 4. One-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.

It is sentence 2.The choice between a and an depends on sound, not spelling. One-eyed begins with a w sound, so it takes a, exactly as a university and a European do.

Q: Man, with wild animals, destroy the environment in many ways through sheer carelessness.

It should read destroys the environment.The subject is man, which is singular; with wild animals is a prepositional phrase and does not join a second subject to it. Only and would make the verb plural.

Direction for [ Question No: 31 To 40 ] :

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

31.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. The IPI Award has become the most prestigious one in the country.
b. It is open for print,visual,radio and internet media.
c. The first award went to The Indian Express newspaper.
d. It was because the in-depth coverage of the Gujarat riots.

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

Answer: A

b and d are incorrect.

An award is open to a category of entrants, not open for them. And d needs because of before a noun phrase - because takes a clause, because of takes a noun.

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32.

He is quite well now, except a slight cold.

A.except with a slight cold
B.except for a slight cold
C.except to a slight cold
D.No improvement required.

Answer: B

It should read except for a slight cold.

Except for introduces the one thing that qualifies an otherwise complete statement. Except alone is a preposition of exclusion from a group, which is not the sense here.

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33.

He asked me why had I gone to the cinema late at night in spite of his clear instructions.

A.why did you go
B.why I had gone
C.why did I go
D.No correction required

Answer: B

It should read why I had gone.

Reported speech drops the question inversion and takes statement word order, and the tense shifts back one step: went becomes had gone after the past reporting verb asked.

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34.

Since you swear to serve me faithfully and constantly, I will employ you.

A.I would employ you
B.I will have employed you
C.I would have employed you
D.No correction required

Answer: D

No correction is required.

Since introduces a reason, and the main clause looks forward, so will employ is right. Would employ would need a conditional if-clause, which the sentence does not have.

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35.

He confirmed he knew the house in that my friend lived many years ago.

A.in that my friend had lived
B.in that my friend has lived
C.that my friend lived in
D.No correction required

Answer: C

It should read that my friend lived in.

In that is not a relative construction - the preposition either goes before which (in which my friend lived) or moves to the end after that. Both are correct; only in that is not.

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36.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. There is no meaning in what you say.
2. There is no meaning in that you say.
3. There is no meaning as to what you say.
4. There is no meaning that you say.

Answer: A

It is sentence 1.

What here is a relative pronoun meaning the thing which, and it is the object of say. That cannot introduce a noun clause after in, and as to what is redundant after meaning.

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37.

Identify the incorrect sentence or sentences:
a. Lina was born in the Czech village of Novemetro.
b. She grew up in warm and loving general store.
c. Her father owned the towns general store.
d. Her mother helped the customers.

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

Answer: B

b and c are incorrect.

Sentence b needs an article - grew up in a warm and loving general store. Sentence c needs the possessive apostrophe: the town's general store.

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38.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The teacher asked the students to thoroughly study this book.
2. The teacher asked the students thoroughly to study this book.
3. The teacher asked thoroughly the students to study this book.
4. The teacher asked the students to study thoroughly this book.

Answer: D

It is sentence 4.

The adverb belongs next to the verb it modifies, and thoroughly modifies study, so it goes immediately after it. Sentence 3 makes thoroughly modify asked instead, which changes the meaning.

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39.

Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. An one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
2. A one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
3. The one-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.
4. One-eyed person was seen roaming about the streets.

Answer: B

It is sentence 2.

The choice between a and an depends on sound, not spelling. One-eyed begins with a w sound, so it takes a, exactly as a university and a European do.

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40.

Man, with wild animals, destroy the environment in many ways through sheer carelessness.

A.destroys the environment
B.are destroying the environment
C.have destroyed the environment
D.No correction required

Answer: A

It should read destroys the environment.

The subject is man, which is singular; with wild animals is a prepositional phrase and does not join a second subject to it. Only and would make the verb plural.

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