Sentence Improvement (Mod)
Description: Sentence Improvement (Mod) | |
Number of Questions: 13 | |
Created by: Chandra Bhatti | |
Tags: |
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
She being separated by her parents, felt very lonely.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The indignant throng swept in them, leaving upon the marble floors, the paneled walls and the decorous ceilings, the imprints of their rage.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
One might suspect that osteoarthritis is a disease in relation to elder population only but surprisingly statistics reveal that it can strike at any age.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
While few journals and individuals were inclined to condemn the work and censure the author, the intelligent and pure-minded recognized in him the only writer who could treat these delicate subjects with dignity and straightforwardness.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Saturday's maximum temperature was 44.2 degrees Celsius, four notches over what is average for this time of the season, while the minimum was six notches above average at 33.2 degrees.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Although pure diamond is colourless and transparent, but when contaminated with other material, it may appear in various colours, ranging from pastels to opaque black.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Edison was tireless in his persistence to change a subject into something else through trial and error unless he found the idea that worked.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The author fortunately remembered that readers have, but little sympathy with the motives of authors; and expect that their works should amuse or instruct them.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
As the daughter of my more intimate friend I think you entitled to that knowledge of my unhappy story, which your Mother has so often solicited me to give you.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
It is a general perception that an uneducated child is most likely to act rude than an educated one.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
There was something very strange and weird about that sound, which sent a chill of horror through both the hearers, and they laughed the next moment at their fears, for the noise was only such as could be given out by a pair of rusty hinges.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth century, people, especially in many parts of North India, regarded the custom of Sati as an integral part of their culture; and not till the Nineteenth century was the belief challenged by social reformers and the British.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Many people are blessed with a high I.Q., but research suggests that the level of achievement that intelligent people with clear goals and ambitions reach are higher than people without a clear vision for the future.