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Sentence Correction

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Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. What alarms the governments of vulnerable countries most is that, they believe rich countries have lost the will to address climate change at the needed speed.

  1. What alarms the governments of vulnerable countries most is

  2. The governments of vulnerable countries are alarmed most at

  3. What alarms the governments of vulnerable countries the most is

  4. The point of alarm for the governments of most vulnerable countries is

  5. Most of the governments of vulnerable countries feel


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the error of missing article is corrected in this choice by adding 'the' in front of the adjective 'most'.

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

Researchers have found a new way of capturing microwave signals and turn them into elecrical power that can be used to charge a mobile phone.

  1. Researchers have found a new way of capturing microwave signals

  2. Researchers have found that there is a new way to capture microwave signals

  3. A new way of capturing microwave signals has been found by researchers

  4. Researchers have found a new way to capture microwave signals

  5. Researchers had found a new way to capture microwave signals


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; both the verbs are in the same form, to + infinitive, viz. 'to capture'.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. The whole world, especially developing countries struggling to address poverty and achieve social and human development, confront the realities of economic and environmental dysfunction.

  1. confront the realities of economic and environmental dysfunction

  2. are confronting the realities of economic and environmental dysfunction

  3. has been confronting the realities of economic and environmental dysfunction

  4. confronts the realities of economic and environmental dysfunction

  5. has confronted the realities of economic and environmental dysfunction


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the subject 'world' is singular, so the verb is in correct form , v+s.

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

The President asserted that after the reforms not only the state owned enterprise but the private sector will also become stronger gradually

  1. but the private sector will also become stronger gradually

  2. but the private sector will gradually become as strong as the public enterprise

  3. but also the private sector will become stronger gradually

  4. but the private sector can also become stronger gradually

  5. but the private sector will also become strong gradually


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the construction is correct with 'not only----but also'.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. The prestige of the college is high and its scholarships, free of any age limit, dredge deeper than the university.

  1. dredge deeper than the university

  2. dredge deeper than the ones offered by the university

  3. dredge deeper than of the university

  4. dredge deeper than the scholarships which are granted by the university

  5. dredge deeper than those of the university


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct; the scholarships have been compared with the scholarships. To avoid repetition of the noun, the pron. 'those' is used.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. A study has revealed that the presence of genetic mutation for lighter skin broadly conforms to many cultural and linguistic differences in the wider black population.

  1. conforms to many cultural and linguistic differences in the wider black population

  2. conforms with many cultural and linguistic differences in the wider black population

  3. is in conformity with many cultural and linguistic differences in the wider black population

  4. is owing to many cultural and linguistic differences in the wider black population

  5. conforms to many cultural and linguistic differences which can be found widely in the black population


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; the sent has no error . The verb is in correct tense, form and the prepo. is also used correctly used.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. NASA has released the first ever natural color portrait of Saturn in which the planet along with its seven moons and rings and Earth, Venus and Mars are visible.

  1. its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars are visible

  2. its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars is visible

  3. showing all the planets of Earth, Venus and Mars as well as its seven moons and rings

  4. its pictures of seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars is visible

  5. its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars has been depicted


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the verb is used in the singular form, the subject and verb agree according to the number of of the subjects.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. Bacon believes that the medical profession should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a few days and at the cost of great pain.

  1. otherwise only delay for a few days

  2. be delayed for a few days

  3. can be delayed for a few days only

  4. be otherwise delayed for a few days only

  5. be delayed only for a few days


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; it correctly uses the verb in the passive voice as well as the probability conveyed by 'otherwise'.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. On each table stood a couple of glass jars and guinea-pigs upon which the students were working and down the side of the room were slides bearing bleached dissections.

  1. guinea-pigs upon which the students were working

  2. guinea-pigs upon which the students had worked

  3. guinea-pigs upon which the students had been working

  4. guinea-pigs upon which the work still continued by the students

  5. guinea-pigs upon which the students worked


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the tense is correctly used as the action which started in the past still continued.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. Neither Jenny nor her friends is invited to pledge the local sorority.

  1. is invited to pledge the local sorority

  2. are invited to pledge the local sorority

  3. are invited to pledge for the local sorority

  4. is invited to take pledge for the local sorority

  5. are invited to show strength for the local sorority


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the verb is correct in plural form according to the no. of the preceding noun, 'friends'.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. If precision of thought had facilitated precision of behavior, and if reflection had preceded action, it would be ideal for humans.

  1. it would be ideal for humans

  2. it will be ideal for humans.

  3. it could be ideal for humans

  4. it would have been ideal for humans

  5. should have been ideal for humans


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the construction is correct keeping in mind the helping verb of the subordinate verb.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. In studying diabetes, many doctors have concluded that early detection of the disease can permit control through diet.

  1. In studying diabetes, many doctors have concluded

  2. Many doctors, by studying diabetes, have concluded

  3. Many doctors studying diabetes have concluded

  4. In studying diabetes, it has been concluded by many doctors

  5. Diabetes studies have led many doctors to conclude


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the sub comes in the beginning, and the phrase is a part of the clause in its participle form.

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

Doris Lessing, a Nobel Laureate, wrote at a time when the gates of gender disparity castle were giving away and women were faced with the increased freedoms and choices.

  1. when the gates of gender disparity castle were giving away

  2. when the gates of gender disparity castle were giving up

  3. when the gate of gender disparity castle were giving way

  4. when the gender disparity castles' gates were giving way

  5. when the gates of gender disparity castle were giving way


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct; the correct phrase is used meaning the gender disparity was coming to an end and women were given more freedom.

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

In 2012, the country exported twice as much of its national output of goods as they had in 2010.

  1. twice as much of its national output of goods as they had

  2. twice as many of its national output of goods as it did

  3. twice as much of its national output of goods as it had

  4. twice as much of its national output of goods as it did

  5. two times of its national output of its goods as it did


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the pronouns and the verb are in correct forms. The word 'did' is used as a verb which stands for 'exported'.

Directions: Choose the option which is grammatically correct and the best version of the underlined part. A symbiotic relationship develops among the contractors, bureaucracy and the politicians and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated and black money generated through underhand deals.

  1. and by a large number of devices costs are artificially escalated

  2. and a large number of devices are used to escalate costs artificially

  3. and costs are escalated artificially by a large number of devices

  4. and they escalate the costs artificially using a large number of devices

  5. and to escalate the costs, they have a large number of devices


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; the sub of the phrase and its adverbial phrase are in proper place.

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