Sentence Improvement Questions

New Pattern Sentence Improvement Questions/Quiz. Sentence Improvement Questions with Answers for All Banking and Insurance Exams i.e. SBI PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/Clerk, NABARD, RBI, SEBI Grade A & B, LIC AAO, and Other Exams 2020-21. Sentence Improvement Questions based on previous year exams. If you are preparing for Banking and Insurance Exams, you will come across a section on the Sentence Improvement in English language. Here we are providing you Sentence Improvement Questions, based on the latest pattern of your daily practice.

Sentence Improvement Questions with Answers will help you learn concepts on important topics in English Section. This “English sentence improvement for Bank Exams” is also important for all competitive exams.

Sentence Improvement Questions with Answers | Set- 1


 Direction (1-10) Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below should replace the phrase given in bold and colored in the following sentence to make it meaningful and grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (E) as the answer.

1.The increased time devoting to watch television is one of the important causes of the decline in reading ability.
A. devoted for the watch
B. devoted to watching
C. devoted for the watch of the
D. devoted to keep watch
E. No correction required

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B. devoted to watching

Here, time is ‘devoted’ to ‘doing’ something. So the correct from coming after ‘to’ is ‘watching’.

2.In the production of desert trees, Nature seems sometimes to have been experimenting with the truly strange.
A. seem to have been sometimes experimenting
B. seems sometimes to have been experimented
C. sometimes seem to be experimented
D. sometimes seem to have experimented
E. No correction required

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E. No correction required

3.In the first round, the participants played in the presence of an accomplice who was committed deliberate errors.
A. committed deliberate
B. was to be committed deliberate
C. had committed deliberately
D. committed deliberately
E. No correction required

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A. committed deliberate

Committed’ (v.t.) here means performed. ‘Was committed’ (v.i.) has a different meaning. It means ‘pledge oneself or engage oneself’.

4 What did prevent them from winning the battle is not known.
A. What prevented them to win
B. What prevent them from winning
C. What prevented them from winning
D. What prevented their winning
E. No correction required

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C. What prevented them from winning

One is prevented ‘from’ doing something; so, the preposition ‘from’ is necessary
here.

5.The scenario was identical to the one that was to be observed in the previous tournament.

A. was observing
B. had been observed
C. was observed
D. was to observe
E. No correction required

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B. had been observed

The scenario was identical to what had already been observed in a previous instance from the time of speaking. So, past perfect tense (had + been + past participle) is necessary.

6.We are happy to note that emission controls was created to reduce air pollution.
A. emission controls were
B. the uses of emission controls were
C. emission controls had
D. emission controls had to be
E. No correction required

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A. emission controls were

Plural verb is required.

7.Although he was seen with a drug-peddler, he is not necessarily himself a drug-peddler.
A. it is not necessary that he be himself a drug-peddler
B. he is not necessary to be a drug-peddler himself
C. he was not necessary to be himself a drug-peddler
D. he is not necessarily a drug peddler himself
E. No correction required

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D. he is not necessarily a drug peddler himself

In the given sentence, the adverb ‘necessarily’ placed as it is modifies ‘himself’ which it is not supposed to do.

8.She intends to sell her furniture before she leaves.
A. intends selling
B. intend selling
C. intends for selling
D. intends to selling
E. No correction required

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D. intends to selling

After ‘intend’, an infinitive (‘to’) is more usual than a gerund (a verb ending in ‘ing’).

9.We have already identified areas where landslides are possible and start evacuation of residents to safer locations.
A. starting evacuation
B. started evacuation
C. have started evacuate
D. start evacuating
E. No correction required

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B. started evacuation

Parallel construction demands ‘started’, not ‘start’ with ‘we have identified….’ Two sentences have been combined with ‘and’ here: (i) ‘we have identified….possible’ (ii) ‘(we have) started evacuation….locations’.

10.The law that now stands abolished was a flawed and discriminatory peace of legislation.
A. flaw and discrimination of peace of
B. flawed and discriminating piece for
C. flawing and discriminating peace of
D. flawed and discriminatory piece of
E. No correction required

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D. flawed and discriminatory piece of

Piece’ and ‘peace’ are homophones. Piece means a part or portion of anything; peace is a state of quiet.

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