SC Integrated Test Step - 1
| Description: Integrated Test - 6 | |
| Number of Questions: 12 | |
| Created by: Ashok Pandey | |
| Tags: Integrated Test - 6 Sentence Correction/Improvement |
Large numbers of people those who are educated are not able to make any use of their education because they are day dreamers.
This unprincipled and nefarious practice is now applied to almost every commodity which can be classed among either the necessaries or the luxuries of life.
It was found that a mass of the living roots of the old strong elm near had twined about and entered the structure through the apertures.
Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.
The old weather-beaten or time-eaten slab with their curious lettering designate the spots where many of the men of the pre-revolutionary epoch were laid to their last repose.
Giant Squid, a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, lives at depths up to one km, where it was long thought that it was immune from human intervention.
The spurious articles are made up so skillfully as to baffle the discrimination of the most experienced judges.
Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.
In oceanography, there must be a balance between explaining the value and workings of marine organisms, revealing the secrets of ocean currents and geophysical fluid dynamics, and to promote respect for the marine world.
When life emerged on Earth with a basic cellular structure, it would be adjudged positively primitive by today's standards.
Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.
Tax incentive to the salaried class has lead to a boom in the sale of residential apartment complexes; so abundant has capital been for residential real estate that builders regularly scout the country for suitable sites.
Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.
The burgeoning demand for food, shrinking farmlands, and stagnating crop yield has all but ensured that the poor will struggle to put food on the table.
Directions: The following sentences test correctness and effectiveness of expression. Part of each sentence or the entire sentence is underlined; beneath each sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Choice A repeats the original phrasing; the other four choices are different. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A. If not, select one of the other choices.
Because cows often need to survive on low quality food, they need a way to extract maximum nutrition from the food they eat before being excreted, and therefore, cows have a special stomach called rumen in which food is repeatedly masticated and chewed.