Sentence Correction practice questions Set 2

The blog provides fully solved Verbal Ability Sentence Correction questions and answers for practice.

Verbal Ability Sentence Correction questions and answers for practice

Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark ‘E’ as the answer

Q1. Though it was raining, but I went out.

(a) but yet I

(b) I

(c) however I

(d) No improvement

Q2. She has grown too old to do little work.

(a) some

(b) any

(c) a little

(d) No improvement

Q3. Have you ever saw the flower of a pumpkin plant?

(a) see

(b) seeing

(c) seen

(d) No improvement

Q4. Since we were knowing the correct route, we did not worry at all.

(a) knew

(b) have known

(c) know

(d) No improvement

Q5. Wake me up when father will come.

(a) comes

(b) will have come

(c) came

(d) No improvement

Q6. Do take an umbrella with you lest you do not get wet.

(a) lest you should get wet

(b) lest you should not get wet

(c) lest you might not get wet

(d) No improvement

Q7. Our country can progress when only people work hard.

(a) when people only work hard

(b) when people work hard only

(c) only when people work hard

(d) No improvement.

Q8. It is an ancient, historical place and it once belongs to the Pandavas.

(a) belonged

(b) belonging

(c) belong

(d) No improvement

Q9. No one enjoys to deceive his family.

(a) for deceiving

(b) deceive

(c) deceiving

(d) No improvement

10. There is no chance of success unless you do not work hard.

(a) unless you work

(b) until your working

(c) until you do not work

(d) No improvement

Answers for Sentence Correction questions

Q1. (b) I

Q2. (b) any

Q3. (c) seen

Q4. (a) knew

Q5. (a) comes

Q6. (a) lest you should get wet

Q7. (c) only when people work hard

Q8. (a) belonged

Q9. (c) deceiving

Q10. (a) unless you work


Sentence Correction practice questions Set 1

The blog provides fully solved Verbal Ability Sentence Correction questions and answers for practice. The below given sentence correction questions were asked in CDS 2016 English Exam Paper. 

Verbal Ability Sentence Correction questions and answers for practice

Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark ‘E’ as the answer

Q1. This is to certify that I know Mr. J. Mathews since 1970

(a) am knowing

(b) had known

(c) have known

(d) No improvement

Q2. The Executive Council is consisted of ten members.

(a) consists of

(b) comprises of

(c) constituted of

(d) No improvement

Q3. The police accused him for theft.

(a) with

(b) in

(c) of

(d) No improvement

Q4. The maid was laying the table for dinner.

(a) setting up

(b) lying

(c) sorting out

(d) No improvement

Q5. He wanted that I left immediately.

(a) I may leave

(b) me to leave

(c) I leave

(d) No improvement

Q6. They took away everything that belonged to him.

(a) that had been belonging

(b) that belong

(c) that has been belonging

(d) No improvement

Q7. It was the mother of the girl of whose voice I had recognised.

(a) whose voice

(b) the voice of who

(c) voice whose

(d) No improvement

Q8. We have so arranged the matters and one of us is always on duty.

(a) that one of us

(b) so that one of us

(c) such that one of us

(d) No improvement

Q9. Hardly have we got into the forest when it began to rain.

(a) Hardly we got

(b) We had hardly got

(c) We had got hard

(d) No improvement

Q10. Each time he felt tired he lied down.

(a) lies

(b) lays

(c) lay

(d) No improvement

Answers for Verbal Ability Sentence Correction questions

Q1. (c) have known

Q2. (a) consists of

Q3. (c) of

Q4. (d) No improvement

Q5. (b) me to leave

Q6. (d) No improvement

Q7. (c) voice whose

Q8. (a) that one of us

Q9. (b) We had hardly got

Q10. (c) lay