PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-36

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the following question, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

Question No : 1

Striking this deal will enable the company to expand its operations in Europe.

(1) Strike this deal that

(2) To strike off this deal

(3) By striking this deal to

(4) This deal was struck which

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

If thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms could be faced potentially crippling fixed expenses.

(1) could face potential crippling

(2) could face potential crippling

(3) could be a potential cripple

(4) could face potentially cripple

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

We resist facing that one unpalatable, yet unchange truth — that impermanence is the only permanence.

(1) resist facing that one unpalatable, yet unchangeable

(2) resist facing this one unpalatable, yet unchangeable

(3) resist facing that one unpalatable, but unchangeable

(4) resist facing that one unpalatable, but tounchangeable

(5) resist face that once unpalatable, yet unchangeable

Question No : 4

Alongside these attempts to record animal experiences, the question of intent and deliberation continues to cloud debates on weather animals can, in fact, be agents of their own history.

(1) cloud debates about weather animals can

(2) to cloud debated on weather animals can

(3) to cloud debates on whether animals can

(4) to cloud debates on weather animals could

(5) to cloud debates on weather animals might

Question No : 5

The standards of a genuinely liberal education, as they have been understood, more or less from the time of Aristotle, are being progressively undermine by the utilitarians and the sentimentalists.

(1) being progressive undermined

(2) are be progressively undermined

(3) are being progression undermined

(4) are been progressively undermined

(5) are being progressively undermined