PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-69

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

Waiting for the apple pie, the candy machine began to hum loudly.

(1) I heard the candy machine

(2) I hear the candy machine

(3) The candy machine begun

(4) The candy machine had begun

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

Having spending most of his years in battle, he understood when a traditional approach would not work with an unusual opponent.

(1) Spend

(2) Spent

(3) Been spend

(4) Been spending

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

The empire was celebrating the 1000th anniversary of its birth, and imperial aspirations and ideas were naturally prominent.

(1) To celebrate

(2) Celebrate

(3) Will celebrate

(4) Having celebrating

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

He broadly speaking, the embodiments of the present invention provide an improved plasma processing mechanism, apparatus, and method to increase the process uniformity at the very edge of the substrate.

(1) Broadly speaking

(2) Him broadly speaking

(3) Her broadly speaking

(4) Their broadly speaking

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

Had you bought the guitar before you had gone to the music show?

(1) Have gone

(2) Went

(3) Will go

(4) Would go

(5) No correction required