Sentence Improvement

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Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

The CEO of the company is scrutinizing the benefits package, to make sure that the staff knows their true cost.

  1. that the staff knows their true cost.

  2. that the staff knows it's true cost.

  3. that the staff knows its true cost.

  4. that the staff knows their true cost.

  5. that the staff can come to know their true cost.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; both the verb and the pronoun are in correct form.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Found in two percent of the population, inventors are good at functional analysis, and both have a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems.

  1. and both have a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems.

  2. and have both a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems.

  3. and both tolerate and enjoy the complex problems.

  4. and for both the complex problems are a source of tolerance and enjoyment.

  5. and have both a tolerance and enjoyment of complex problems.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the determiner 'both' is placed correctly before the tolerance and enjoyment.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

A man who accuses everyone else besides himself of being mad and who is disposed to listen to a tale of peripatetic graveyard cannot hardly be quite sane.

  1. listen to a tale of peripatetic graveyard cannot hardly be quite sane.

  2. listening to a tale of peripatetic graveyard can hardly be quite sane.

  3. listen to a tale of peripatetic graveyard can hardly be quite sane.

  4. have listened to a tale of peripatetic graveyard cannot hardly be quite sane.

  5. listened to a tale of peripatetic graveyard can hardly be quite sane.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the verb is in correct form, and the double negative is also omitted.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Leshan locals were angry not only at the destruction of their treasured tombs but because the trust was allowed to create a theme park on their ancestral land.

  1. but because the trust was allowed to create a theme park

  2. but because the trust had been given permission to create a theme park

  3. but also because the trust was allowed to create a theme park

  4. but also that the trust was allowed to create a theme park

  5. but also that the trust was allowed to creating a theme park


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the sentence uses the correct conjunctive phrase and 'that' to explain the fact.

Directions: Choose the answer which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Giving extension to the people to log on for health care insurance is the administration's latest move of the goalpost set earlier.

  1. is the administration's latest move of the goalpost set earlier.

  2. are the administration's latest move of the goalpost set earlier.

  3. is the latest move of the goalpost set earlier by the administration

  4. is the administration's latest move of the goalposts set earlier.

  5. are the administration's latest moves of the goalpost set earlier.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the number of the noun 'goalpost' is plural in number which makes the latest move one from many, correct.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. Many people were prevented from signing the process of healthcare insurance in time because of the heavy traffic on the website.

  1. Many people were prevented from signing the process of healthcare insurance

  2. Many people were prevented of signing the process of healthcare insurance

  3. Many people were prevented to sign the process of healthcare insurance

  4. Many people had been prevented from signing the process of healthcare insurance

  5. Many people were being prevented from signing the process of healthcare insurance


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; the sentence is correct in verb tense and the usage of preposition.

Directions: Choose the answer which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. Written in 1742, Henry Fielding scored a literary hit with his first novel, Joseph Andrews.

  1. Written in 1742, Henry Fielding scored a literary hit with his first novel Joseph Andrews.

  2. Written in 1742, Joseph Andrews, the first novel by Henry Fielding, scored a literary hit.

  3. Written in 1742, Henry Fielding scored a literary hit with Joseph Andrews, his first novel.

  4. Joseph Andrews, which was written in 1742 by Henry Fielding, scored a literary hit with his first novel.

  5. Joseph Andrews, the first novel scored a literary hit for Henry Fielding by its being written in 1742.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the noun, Joseph Andrews, is correctly placed next to the modifier 1742.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Of the many decisions before the energy commission as it meets to decide on new directions for the next century, the question of the future of nuclear energy is for certain the more perplexing.

  1. is for certain the more perplexing.

  2. is certainly the more perplexing.

  3. it seems certain, is perplexing the most.

  4. is certainly the most perplexing.

  5. it seems certain, is the most perplexed.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the adverb 'certainly' correctly replaces the phrase 'for certain'. the superlative degree of the quantity word 'most' is correctly used.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

If a large population were the route to power, India and China would long since have been the world's most powerful countries.

  1. would long since have been the world's most powerful countries.

  2. will long since have been the world's most powerful countries.

  3. long since had been the world's most powerful countries.

  4. would long since be the world's most powerful countries.

  5. were the world's most powerful countries since long.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the verb is in correct form according to the subordinate verb.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. A contribution to a favourite charity being sent instead of flowers when a colleague dies is becoming the rule than the exception when it comes to funeral etiquette.

  1. A contribution to a favourite charity being sent instead

  2. A contribution being sent to a favourite charity as opposed to

  3. To send a contribution for a favourite charity instead

  4. Sending a contribution to a favourite charity instead

  5. Sending a contribution to a favourite charity as opposed to


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the use of gerund makes the option a subjective phrase, and hence correct.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Rules governing recruitment in the army require that the applicants should be physically fit enough to endure the arduous activities in which they will be participating.

  1. that the applicants should be physically fit enough to endure

  2. the applicants should have enough fitness to allow enduring

  3. that the applicants be physically fit enough to endure

  4. the applicants are physically fit enough as to endure

  5. physical fitness in applicants, enough for endurance of


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the answer uses the subjunctive mood of the verb 'be' because of the verb 'require'.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. As China races for the modern era, its spectacular heritage is often the first casualty of the nation's fascination with all things shiny and new.

  1. As China races for the modern era,

  2. As China's race for the modern era begins,

  3. As China races into the modern era,

  4. As China is racing towards the modern era,

  5. As China's races for the modern era,


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the preposition 'into' is correct, conveying that the country has entered into the modern era.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Thailand's political instability is effecting its booming economy; it needs to evolve a democratic culture.

  1. is effecting its booming economy;

  2. is having a bad effect on its booming economy;

  3. is affecting its booming economy;

  4. is being affected by its booming economy;

  5. has been affecting its booming economy;


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the verb very correctly expresses the meaning that political instability is leaving a bad effect on the economy.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence.

Ozone is formed in the atmosphere from hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides reacting with sunlight.

  1. from hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides reacting with sunlight.

  2. when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides react with sunlight.

  3. as hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides receive sunlight.

  4. by the reaction of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides in the sunlight.

  5. when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides start reacting with sunlight.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the phrase has been changed into a clause which explains the time of the formation of ozone.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. Benchmarking employees, and then pay them different rates, can turn out to be a minefield, if handled badly.

  1. Benchmarking employees, and then pay them different rates

  2. Once the employees are benchmarked, and then paid at different rates

  3. Benchmarking employees, and then paying them different rates

  4. Benchmarking of employees, and then paying them at different rates

  5. The benchmarked employees paid at different rates


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the rule of parallelism has been followed. 'Paying' is the correct form.

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