PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-09

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the given question, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below the sentence, alternatives to the bold part are given at (1), (2), (3) and (4) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (5), i.e., ‘No correction required’.

Question No : 1

Investigators have been still trying to determine the cause of the fire.

(1) Was still trying

(2) Are still trying

(3) Is still trying

(4) Had been still trying

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

She have been taken to the hospital last week when her condition suddenly deteriorated.

(1) Was taken

(2) Has been taken

(3) Had been taken

(4) Have been took

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

We will put our house on the market as soon as house prices started to rise.

(1) Will be put

(2) Would put

(3) Put

(4) Would be putting

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

Whenever anything delighted or interested me, she talked it over with me just as if she is a little girl herself.

(1) she were a little girl herself

(2) she was a little girl herself

(3) she is a little girl herself

(4) she a little girl herself

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

Despite the difficulty of the task, and the slowness of the progress, the workers continued to do away at it manfully.

(1) take away

(2) bring about

(3) plug away

(4) roll down

(5) No correction required