Sentence Improvement — 20

Click on the option given under each question which you think will improve the sentence.

SentenceAns

1. Go north-east across the mountains till you WILL REACH an island.

  1. reached
  2. reach
  3. have reached
  4. No improvement

2. It is hard these days to COPE WITH the rising prices.

  1. cope by
  2. cope up with
  3. to be coped with
  4. No improvement

3. He took a LOAN of hundred rupees from me.

  1. debt
  2. demand
  3. advance
  4. No improvement

4. FROM THE LAST the last five days it has been raining torrentially.

  1. Since the last
  2. For the last
  3. Since last
  4. No improvement

5. The teacher, along with her three children, WERE TAKEN taken to hospital.

  1. was taken
  2. had taken
  3. had being taken
  4. No improvement

6. The Prime Minister had WIDE-RANGING discussions on the international situation.

  1. widely-ranged
  2. wide-ranged
  3. wide-range
  4. No improvement


SentenceAns

7. The man disappeared after he WAS RESCUING a boy from drowning.

  1. was rescued
  2. has been rescued
  3. had rescued
  4. No improvement

8. I shall be obliged if you COULD GRANT me an interview.

  1. give
  2. allow
  3. permit
  4. No improvement

9. By 8.00 in the morning he WROTE four letters to his friends.

  1. had written
  2. had been writing
  3. was writing
  4. No improvement

10. But for one witness the accused OUGHT TO HAVE been sent to jail.

  1. would have
  2. had
  3. should have
  4. No improvement

11. This telephone number IS NOT EXISTING.

  1. does not exist
  2. has not been existing
  3. has had no existence
  4. No improvement