Sentence Improvement Verbal Ability Quiz – Questions And Answers

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Sentence Improvement Verbal Ability Quiz

Directions to Solve:

In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicized and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicized part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option ‘D’ is the answer.’

1. The workers are hell bent at getting what is due to them.
 
 
 
 

2. If the room had been brighter, I would have been able to read for a while before bed time.
 
 
 
 

3. When it was feared that the serfs might go too far and gain their freedom from serfdom, the protestant leaders joined the princes at crushing them.
 
 
 
 

4. The record for the biggest tiger hunt has not been met since 1911 when Lord Hardinge. then Viceroy of India, shot a tiger than measured 11 feet and 6 inches.
 
 
 
 

5. Will you kindly open the knot?
 
 
 
 

6. his powerful desire brought about his downfall.
 
 
 
 

7. He sent a word to me that he would be coming late.
 
 
 
 

8. If he had time he will call you.
 
 
 
 

9. John had told me that he hasn't done it yet.
 
 
 
 

10. Will you lend me few rupees in this hour of need?
 
 
 
 

11. He found a wooden broken chair in the room.
 
 
 
 

12. During his long discourse, he did not touch that point.
 
 
 
 

13. The greatest thing in style is to have a use of metaphor.
 
 
 
 

14. He could not look anything in the dark room.
 
 
 
 

15. While crossing the highway a five-year-old child was knocked out by a passing car.
 
 
 
 

16. More than one person was killed in accident.
 
 
 
 

17. hoping not to be disturbed, I sat down in my easy chair to read the book. I won as a prize.
 
 
 
 

18. No one could explain how a calm and balanced person like him could penetrate such a mindless act on his friends.
 
 
 
 

19. I took the cycle which he bought yesterday.
 
 
 
 

20. Five years ago today, I am sitting in a small Japanese car, driving across Poland towards Berlin.
 
 
 
 

21. Please make it a point to send you letter at my address.
 
 
 
 

22. I hope you won't object to me watching while you work.
 
 
 
 

23. If you are living near a market place you should be ready to bear the disturbances caused by traffic.
 
 
 
 

24. You have come here with a view to insult me.
 
 
 
 

25. You cannot forbid him leaving.
 
 
 
 

26. 20 kms are not a great distance in these days of fast moving vehicles.
 
 
 
 

27. It became clear that the strangers were heading into a serious disaster.
 
 
 
 

28. The more they earn, more they spend.
 
 
 
 

29. The dissidents hold a great problem in every political party.
 
 
 
 

30. They are social insects, living in communities, regulated by definite laws, each member of society bearing well-defined and separate part in the work of a colony.
 
 
 
 

31. I would have waited for you at the station if I knew that you would come.
 
 
 
 

32. Practically every part of the banana tree is used by man.
 
 
 
 

33. My opinion for the film is that it will bag the national ward.
 
 
 
 

34. We were not the wiser for all this effort to explain the case to us.
 
 
 
 

35. The end of the examinations is (an) oppurtunity for celebrating.
 
 
 
 

36. Whenever my students come across new words, I ask them to look for them in the dictionary.
 
 
 
 

37. It was indeed a shock for her, but she has later recovered from it.
 
 
 
 

38. We look forward to hear from you.
 
 
 
 

39. Realising is the significance of technical education for developing country, the government laid aside a large sum on it during the last plan period.
 
 
 
 

40. You are warned against committing the same mistake again.
 
 
 
 

41. If you are not clear about the meaning of a word, it is wise to look to a dictionary.
 
 
 
 

42. No sooner he had returned home then his mother felt happy.
 
 
 
 

43. Either he or I am going.
 
 
 
 

44. He should move on to the next point, and not harp one string only.
 
 
 
 

45. I hope you vividly remember the premier of the film when I, my wife and you were present in the hall.
 
 
 
 

46. Taxpayers are to be conscious of their privileges.
 
 
 
 

47. To get one's name in the Rowland Ward's book of hunting records was the hot ambition of every serious hunter.
 
 
 
 

48. As she was suffering from high fever, she could not face the examination.
 
 
 
 

49. Every time I go in a lift to my sixth-floor apartment, I remember the calm and serenity of my ancestral home in the village.
 
 
 
 

50. The demonstration passed off peacefully.
 
 
 
 

51. In fact, if it hadn't been for his invaluable advice on so many occasions I wouldn't have achieved anything in life.
 
 
 
 

52. But in all these cases conversion from scale have well-formulated.
 
 
 
 

53. Mr. Smith arrived at India in June last year.
 
 
 
 

54. With a thundering roar the huge rocket soared up from the launching pad.
 
 
 
 

55. If you cross the line you will be disqualified.
 
 
 
 

56. There is dearth of woman doctor in our state. We shall have to recruit some from the other states.
 
 
 
 

57. Why the dinosaurs died out is not known.
 
 
 
 

58. I will not go to school, if it shall rain tomorrow.
 
 
 
 

59. His father won't be able to leave for Varanasi until they have arrived.
 
 
 
 

60. He has not and can never be in the good books of his employer because he lacks honesty.
 
 
 
 

61. If I stood alone in defence of truth, and the whole world is banded against me and against truth. I would fight them all.
 
 
 
 

62. When the examinations were over Anil and me went to our native town.
 
 
 
 

63. The cloud of misfortunes appears to have blown out.
 
 
 
 

64. Our office clock is not so correct as it should be it is usually five minutes fast.
 
 
 
 

65. While we would like that all Indian Children to go to school, we need to ponder why they do not.
 
 
 
 

66. I shall be grateful to you if you are of help to me now.
 
 
 
 

67. In India today many of our intellectuals still talk in terms of the French Revolution and the Rights of Man, not appreciating that much has happened since then.
 
 
 
 

68. The logic of Berlin wall already had been undermined but when the news came through that the wall itself had been opened I jumped into a car.
 
 
 
 

69. Young men and women should get habituated to reading and write about current affairs.
 
 
 
 

70. Other countries have eradicated this disease ten years ago.
 
 
 
 

71. The poor villagers have waited in the bitter cold for more than 4 hours now.
 
 
 
 

72. The company goes to great length to ensure that employees can be comfortable in their work environment.
 
 
 
 

73. The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly no effort at all.
 
 
 
 

74. I want you to clearly understand that excuses won't do
 
 
 
 

75. Although India is still by far a poor country, it can become rich if its natural and human resources are fully utilized.
 
 
 
 

76. He was fined for careless driving.
 
 
 
 

77. The reason why he wrote the letter was because he could not contact him over the phone.
 
 
 
 

78. There is no more room for you in this compartment.
 
 
 
 

79. As he is past his teens now, he can look for himself.
 
 
 
 

80. Most donors would seriously protest any effort to extrapolate from such limited data.
 
 
 
 

81. If you had attended the meeting, you would have benefited a great deal.
 
 
 
 

82. She says she's already paid me back, but I can't remember, so I 'll have to take her word.
 
 
 
 

83. This matter admits of no excuse.
 
 
 
 

84. It will be no good trying to find an excuse next time.
 
 
 
 

85. If he would have tried he would have succeeded.
 
 
 
 

86. Please remind me of posting these letters to my relatives.
 
 
 
 

87. Not long back, in Japan, a mysterious nerve gas affected a large number of people.
 
 
 
 

88. Not a word they spoke to the unfortunate wife about it
 
 
 
 

89. We had nothing to eat since 8'o clock, this morning.
 
 
 
 

90. My friend was in hospital for a week after an accident.
 
 
 
 

91. We did not see this movie yet.
 
 
 
 

92. All, but her, had made an attempt.
 
 
 
 

93. I have lived in Delhi since I was four.
 
 
 
 

94. Whatever to our other problems. we have no shortcoming to cheap labour in India.
 
 
 
 

95. This telephone number is not existing.
 
 
 
 

96. He died in the year 1960 at 11pm on 14 July.
 
 
 
 

97. I shall not go untill I am invited.
 
 
 
 

98. Due to these reason we are all in favour of universal compulsory education.
 
 
 
 


 

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