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
