Important Improvement of Sentences Questions with Answers For SSC GD
Directions :
Below are given alternatives to the part of sentence at 1, 2, 3 and 4 which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.
1. On one occasion he persuaded me to accompany him on a shooting expedition he was planning.
(1) has planned
(2) had planned
(3) planned
(4) No improvement
2. We have no less than a thousand students in our College.
(1) not less
(2) no less
(3) no fewer
(4) No improvement
3. When she regained consciousness she was stretched in the ditch out, soaked to the skin.
(1) out in the ditch stretched
(2) on the ditch outstretched
(3) outstretched in the ditch
(4) No improvement
4. Too little is known by this time about possible side-effects of the drug.
(1) presently
(2) in the end
(3) before hand
(4) No improvement
5. The greater the demand, higher the price.
(1) high
(2) the high
(3) the higher
(4) No improvement
6. I prefer to ride than to walk.
(1) riding to walking
(2) ride to walk
(3) riding than walking
(4) No improvement
7. Please report to me when you return back from Delhi.
(1) you have returned back from
(2) you return from
(3) you returned back from
(4) No improvement
8. Ravi has been demanding a lot more marks, doesn’t he ?
(1) hasn’t he ?
(2) isn’t he ?
(3) isn’t it ?
(4) No improvement
9. Exercise is benevolent to good health.
(1) beneficial
(2) beneficent
(3) bounteous
(4) No improvement
10. He told me that he was married four years.
(1) over four years
(2) four years ago
(3) about four years
(4) No improvement
11. Chennai is by the way a cosmopolitan city.
(1) by the by
(2) by and large
(3) on the large
(4) No improvement
12. For me, money is only the means to an end.
(1) only means
(2) only the mean
(3) only a means
(4) No improvement
13. Let us go see her new house, shall we?
(1) do we ?
(2) don’t we ?
(3) do they ?
(4) No improvement
14. It took a long time for him to realise, what was truth.
(1) what is truth.
(2) what was the truth.
(3) what the truth was.
(4) No improvement
15. My mother is worried about my father’s health and also I.
(1) I also
(2) also me
(3) so am I
(4) also I am
16. Roads are wet, it must have rained last night.
(1) must had
(2) might have been
(3) must have been
(4) No improvement
17. If I am the P.M. I would ban all processions.
(1) will be
(2) were
(3) am
(4) No improvement
18. Mrs. Madhuri has great respect and unlimited faith in her Director.
(1) respect and unlimited faith for
(2) respect for and unlimited faith for
(3) respect for and unlimited faith in
(4) respect in and unlimited faith for
19. He is addicted to smoke.
(1) addicted to smoking
(2) used to smoke
(3) addicted of smoking
(4) addicted with smoking
20. Can this machine be adopted in farm work.
(1) by
(2) into
(3) for
(4) No improvement
21. The driver was dazzled by the bright light of approaching car.
(1) twinkled
(2) flashed
(3) glowed
(4) No improvement
22. What does it matter most is the quality of the goods that we require.
(1) What it matters more
(2) What does it matter more
(3) What matters most
(4) No improvement
23. It’s high time that you go home.
(1) have gone
(2) should go
(3) went
(4) No improvement
24. It is proposed to construct a bath for males 99-feet long.
(1) a 99-feet long bath for males
(2) a 99-feet long males bath
(3) a males bath 99-feet long
(4) No improvement
25. Corrupt officials have siphoned off more than five hundred crore rupees over the last decade from welfare funds.
(1) away
(2) up
(3) in
(4) No improvement
