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Sentence Correction Test 9

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Directions: The sentence or part of the sentencef has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Carbon -14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.

  1. as old as any of their supposed

  2. older than any of their supposed

  3. as old as their supposed

  4. older than any of their supposedly

  5. as old as any of their supposedly

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'as old as' is used only when comparison is being done between two same aged object people and positive degree will be used in this sentence. Since it has a numeral as its predecessor, so the comparison is not correct.  Hence options (A), (C) and (E) can be eliminated directly so the answer is (B)

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

In virtually all types of tissues in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that the organisms are trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it.

  1. are trying to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical that is irritating it

  2. trying that it metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant

  3. attempt to try to metabolize, or render harmless, such as chemical irritant

  4. attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant

  5. attempting to trying to metabolize or render harmless the chemical that is irritating it

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Organism's cannot be followed by any 'ing' verb, hence (A), (B) and (E) can be eliminated directly; Attempt means to try and both cannot be used together so, (C) is also incorrect.  Hence, the answer is (D)

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Dr. Hakuta's research among Hispanic children in the United States indicates that the more the children use both Spanish and English, their intellectual advantage is greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic.

  1. their intellectual advantage is greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic

  2. their intellectual advantage is the greater in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic

  3. the greater is their intellectual advantage in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic

  4. in skills that underlay reading ability and nonverbal logic, their intellectual advantage is the greater.

  5. the greater their intellectual advantage in skills underlying reading ability and nonverbal logic.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The first part of the sentence begins a comparison by 'the more', so the second half should support the comparison in the same degree. Hence, (C) is correct.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science.

  1. that they believe is

  2. that they believe it to be

  3. they believe that it is of

  4. they believe to be of

  5. they believe is that of

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

option (A) and (B) do not lead to creation of meaningful sentences hence, they can be eliminated directly, option (E) has an incorrect phrasing. Although options (C) and (D) both seem to be correct, but (C) is too verbose, hence (D) is the best option.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

However much United States voters may agree that there is wastage in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.

  1. However much United States voters may agree that

  2. Despite the agreement among United States voters to the fact

  3. Although United States voters agree

  4. Ever though United States voters may agree

  5. Despite the agreement amongst United States voters to the fact

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

All the options lead to an in complete sentence as the word 'that' is missing in all the options, so (A) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

State officials report that rates of liability insurance have risen to force cutbacks in the operations of 'everything from local governments and school districts to day-care centers and recreational facilities.

  1. rates of liability insurance have risen to force

  2. rates of liability insurance are a force for

  3. rates for liability insurance are forcing

  4. rise in liability insurance rates are forcing

  5. rates in liability insurances are forcing rises in

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

None of the options give a meaning to the sentence except (D), hence it's the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error.

Based on accounts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century B.C, worshipped a goddess known in Latin as Bona Dea, “the good goddess”.

  1. Based on accounts of various ancient writers

  2. Basing it on various ancient writers accounts

  3. With accounts of various ancient writers used for a basis

  4. Using accounts of various ancient writers

  5. Using base as accounts of various ancient writers

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The rest of the sentence is in a past tense and is using ‘ed’ form, both ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ formations cannot be used together so options (B), (D) and (E) can be eliminated directly; option (C) uses an incorrect phrasing, 'used for a basic’, i.e. article ‘a’ is incorrectly used, so option (A) is the correct answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Unlike a typical automobile loan which requires a fifteen to twenty % down payment, the lease loan buyer is not required to make an initial deposit on the new vehicle.

  1. the lease-loan buyer is not required to make

  2. with lease-loan buying there is no requirement of

  3. lease-loan buyers are not required to make

  4. a lease-loan does not require the buyer to make

  5. The lease loan buyer's are not required to make

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The first part of the sentence is making a comparison between the down payment system in two different types of loans, from all the options present only the (D) option recognizes the lease loan as a loan, so (D) is the correct answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

In addition to having more protein than wheat does, the protein in rice is higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet.

  1. the protein in rice is higher quality than that in

  2. rice has protein of higher quality than that in

  3. the protein in rice is higher in quality than it is in

  4. rice protein is higher in quality than it is in

  5. a higher quality protein in rice is that is

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

the conjunctor 'of' is missing before 'higher quality' in each of the other options present, so (B) is the correct option.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Native American burial sites dating back 5,000 years indicate that the residents of Maine at that time were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian- speaking people.

  1. were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people.

  2. had been part of a widespread culture of people who were Algonquian- speaking

  3. were people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

  4. had been people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

  5. were a part of the widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The original sentence is perfect in itself and there is no change that is required. Since sentence is talking about residents, so there is no need for adding 'were people who' in the latter part, so options (C) and (D) are incorrect, option (B) has a incorrect pharsing done.

Directions: The sentence below or part has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

In his research paper. Dr. Frosh, medical director of the Payne Whitney Clinic distinguishes mood swings, which may be violent without their being grounded in mental disease, from genuine manic-depressive psychosis.

  1. mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease and genuine manic-depressive psychosis

  2. between mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental diseases, and genuine manic-depressive psychosis

  3. between mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine manic-depressive psychosis

  4. between mood swings, perhaps violent with out beings grounded in mental disease, from genuine manic-depressive psychosis

  5. among the mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine manic-depressive psychosis.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Since the sentence is distinguishing between two symptoms and diseases, so 'distinguishes' should be followed by 'between' which is not present in options (A) and (B), (E) uses the word 'among' which is also incorrect as among is used for more than 3 things, 'between' should always be followed by 'and' as a grammar rule, so (C) is the correct option.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Each of Hemingway's wives - Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer Martha Gelhonn, and Mary Welsh - were strong and interesting women. Very different from the often pallid women who populate his novels.

  1. Each of Hemingway's wives- Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer Martha Gelhonn, and Mary Welsh- were strong and interesting women.

  2. Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh - were strong and interesting women.

  3. Hemingway's wives- Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer Martha Gelhorn, and Mary Welsh - were all strong and interesting women

  4. Strong and interesting women- Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, and Mary Welsh - each a wife of Hemingway, was

  5. all of Hemingway's wives- Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha gelhorn and Mary welsh -were strong and interesting women.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

'Each of' would involve a singular verb. No option does that. Note that the emphasis is not on 'all the wives' but on 'all were strong and interesting'. Hence, (3)

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed in Burma and estimated at 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.

  1. at 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of

  2. as being 40 to 44 million years old provides evidence of

  3. that it is 40 to 44 million years old provides evidence of what was

  4. to be 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of

  5. as 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

the subject 'Jawbone' is an object and it has to be followed by pronoun 'it', which is not used in any other option except (C), so (C) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being converted to co-operative ownership is if to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants.

  1. being converted to co- operative ownership is if to sign

  2. being converted to co -operative ownership is if to sign

  3. being converted to co -operative ownership is whether or not they sign

  4. conversion to co-operative ownership whether to sign

  5. of being converted to co-operative ownership is if to sign

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

All the options (A) , (B), (C) are not using any conjunction before being, so no meaning can be derived from the sentence.  Option (E) uses a wrong preposition 'of' so, it is incorrect.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of on adverse change in climate is maybe the more difficult for analysis.

  1. is maybe the more difficult for analysis.

  2. is probably the most difficult to analyse.

  3. is maybe the most difficult for analyse.

  4. is probably the more difficult to analyse.

  5. is perhaps the more difficult to analyse.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Since the comparison is not made, between two things so more cannot be used.  Hence (A), (D) and (E) options are wrong.  Option (C) non sensical.  Hence, (B) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Though garlic is often associated with Italian cuisine, it is actually the use of oregano which most distinguishes the Italians from the French.

  1. which most distinguishes the Italians from the French.

  2. which primarily distinguishes Italians from Frenchmen.

  3. which generally serves to distinguish an Italians sauce from a French one.

  4. which is the major distinction between the two great cuisine.

  5. which most distinguishes Italian cookery from French.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The sentence here talks about the cuisine, so it's the food that is to be distinguished and not the people. When we add 'the' before any language it refers to the people and not the language i.e. the French would mean the people in France. So (A) and (B) are incorrect, (E) is incomplete and (C)is introducing something new 'seuce' which does not matches with what is being said in the previous part of clause.  Hence it is wrong.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were put on show.

  1. excited

  2. it excited

  3. exciting

  4. would excite

  5. could excite

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Here the sentence is talking about the prize stock breeding, being a non-living thing the  pronoun 'it' will be used to refer it, (B) is the only option which uses this and as a result brings out the entire             meaning of the sentence.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his inventions typically sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.

  1. sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

  2. sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but were slowly evolved

  3. did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

  4. did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but had slowly evolved

  5. had not sprang to life in a flash of inspiration

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Option (E)is incomplete and (B) not  supporting the verb subject agreement so both can be eliminated.  Options (A) and (C) have 'had' in the last part of the sentence, hence, the complete meaning does not evolve, so (D) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

An array of tax incentives has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build.

  1. so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that

  2. capital has been so abundant for commercial real estate, so that

  3. the abundance of capital for commercial real estate has been such,

  4. such has the abundance of capital been for commercial real estate that

  5. such an abundance of capital been for commercial real estate

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Options (C) and (E) are incomplete and do not bring out the correct meaning of the sentence, options (A) and (B) have an incorrect phrasing, so (D) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five % increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two % of the total growth in the civilian work force.

  1. numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five % increase.

  2. numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five %

  3. numbers of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty - five %

  4. number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five %

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The error in the question is usage of “Numbers of women' instead of 'Number of women' which is rectified only in (D) option, so, (D) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Despite the money that has been invested by industry in the attempt to persuade Americans that highly processed foods are the best foods, the populace stubbornly clings to the belief that such foods are neither particularly healthy or tasty.

  1. are neither particularly healthy or tasty.

  2. are neither particularly healthful nor tasty.

  3. are not particularly healthy or tasty.

  4. are not very healthy nor tasty.

  5. none of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

“Neither and nor” are correlative conjunctions.  Since ‘neither’ is used so, it has to be followed by nor.  So he answer is (B).

Directions: The sentence below or part of the sentence has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

The closing of small, inexpensive hospitals while large expensive hospitals remain open seems a luxury that we can no longer afford in order to maintain them.

  1. seems a luxury that we can no longer afford in order to maintain them.

  2. seems to emphasize luxury over economy, which we can no longer afford.

  3. seems to be a waste of valuable resources.

  4. seems a luxury we can no longer afford.

  5. seems too luxurious to be any longer affordable.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Options (C) and (E) change the whole meaning of the sentence, (A) and (D) are not meaningful enough. So (B) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

While it is certainly true that almost all literate citizens could be taught to improve their ability to read and reason, it must first be demonstrated that such an undertaking would increase the general welfare.

  1. While it is certainly true that almost all literate citizens could be taught to improve their ability to read and reason, it must first be demonstrated that such an undertaking would increase the general welfare.

  2. While it is certainly true that almost all literate citizens could improve their reading and reasoning skills, such a vast undertaking requires a clear demonstration of benefit before being undertaken.

  3. Before undertaking to improve the reading and reasoning of almost all citizens, it is necessary to show that the project will work.

  4. Before the project of improving almost all citizens' reading and reasoning skills is undertaken, than the outcome will be increased happiness must be demonstrated.

  5. Prior to the improvement of citizens' reading and reasoning skills, it must be shown that they will be happier with the improved skills than they are now.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The sentence is as such correct all other options have changed the meaning of the sentence and hence are all incorrect.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

  1. in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy

  2. if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food

  3. in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food

  4. if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

  5. in attributing allergy to food as a reason for criminal (on) delinquent behavior

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The allergy is caused from some food and not 'to' some food, so options (B) (C) and (E) can be eliminated as such, (A) needs rearrangement of phrases, So (D) is the answer.

Directions: The sentence below or part thereof has been underlined. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or diction. Select the option that best corrects the error, if any.

Which controversy rages over whether the sign language taught to some great apes is truly human-like speech, there is no similar dispute that our powers of communication are greater by far than that of any other animal.

  1. are greater by far than that of any other animal.

  2. are far greater than that of any other animal.

  3. are greater by far than any other animal.

  4. are far greater than those of any other animal.

  5. have been far greater than those of other animals.

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The sentence has basically two errors, one is that of being an incorrect phrasing and second the comparison with 'animals' which has been used in singular form; only option (E) rectify's both the errors, so (E) is the answer.

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