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

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