Sentence Improvement MCQs for Competitive Examination
In the following questions, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A), (B), (C); which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose (D).
Q. 41
He likes to drive his car at a speed of eighty kilometres each hour.
(A) Every hour
(B) An hour
(C) Hourly
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) An hour
Q. 42
I’m staying with some friends who are owning a farm.
(A) Will be owning
(B) Own
(C) Have been owning
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) Own
Q. 43
I will not buy some mangoes.
(A) A little
(B) Much
(C) Any
(D) No improvement
Answer: (C) Any
Q. 44
He would surely assist me if I had requested him to do so.
(A) Would surely assisted me
(B) Would have surely assisted me
(C) Will have surely assisted me
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) Would have surely assisted me
Q. 45
The philanthropist bestowed a lakh to the orphanage.
(A) Granted
(B) Parted with
(C) Donated
(D) No improvement
Answer: (C) Donated
Q. 46
Despite his father’s financial assistance, he was always hard on.
(A) Hard in
(B) Hard up
(C) Hard out
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) Hard up
Q. 47
Ramesh laid in the shade of a tree before he could walk further.
(A) lied
(B) lay
(C) lain
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) Lay
Q. 48
As soon as I arrived in home, I knew that something was wrong.
(A) Arrived by home
(B) Arrived home
(C) Arrived my home
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) Arrived home
Q. 49
The boys absented themselves for two days.
(A) Were absented
(B) Absented
(C) Had absented
(D) No improvement
Answer: (D) No improvement
Q. 50
He began on a new business venture.
(A) Embarked
(B) Begun
(C) Opened
(D) No improvement
Answer: (A) Embarked
Q. 51
I have to say them the truth.
(A) Tell
(B) State
(C) Speak
(D) No improvement
Answer: (A) Tell
Q. 52
His wife is as tall if not, taller than him.
(A) As tall as, if not
(B) As taller if not
(C) Not as tall but as
(D) No improvement
Answer: (A) As tall as, if not
Q. 53
He is suffering from fever for a week
(A) Was suffering
(B) Had suffering
(C) Has been suffering
(D) No improvement
Answer: (C) Has been suffering
Q. 54
Jane had told me that she hasn’t done her homework
(A) Told
(B) Tells
(C) Was telling
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) Tells
Q. 55
A black and white goat were grazing.
(A) The white and the black goat
(B) A black and a white goat
(C) A black and a white goat
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) A black and a white goat
Q. 56
I had took the papers to John’s office.
(A) Will took the papers
(B) Taken the papers
(C) Took the papers
(D) No improvement
Answer: (C) Took the papers
Q. 57
She took the cycle which he bought yesterday.
(A) That he bought yesterday.
(B) That he had bought yesterday
(C) That he has bought yesterday
(D) No improvement
Answer: (B) That he had bought yesterday
Q. 58
The police booked a case against the taxi driver for wrong parking.
(A) Restricted
(B) Wrote
(C) Filed
(D) No improvement
Answer: (C) Filed
Q. 59
Scarcely had he left the place when his friend came.
(A) He had scarcely leave
(B) He had left scarcely
(C) He scarcely had left
(D) No improvement
Answer: (D) No improvement
Q. 60
He does not laugh, nor he smiles.
(A) nor he does smile
(B) Neither he does smile
(C) Nor does he smile.
(D) No improvement
Answer: (C) Nor does he smile