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Sentence Improvement Sentence Improvement - Section 1

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Category: Grammar
Topic: Sentence Improvement
Exercise: Sentence Improvement - Section 1
Questions: 100

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In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option 'D' is the answer.

Question 61

Will you lend me few rupees in this hour of need?

A lend me any rupees

B borrow me a few rupees

C lend me a few rupees

D No improvement

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Question 62

During his long discourse, he did not touch that point.

A touch upon

B touch on

C touch of

D No improvement

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Question 63

He found a wooden broken chair in the room.

A wooden and broken chair

B broken wooden chair

C broken and wooden chair

D No improvement

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Question 64

He could not look anything in the dark room.

A look at

B see

C see through

D No improvement

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Question 65

The greatest thing in style is to have a use of metaphor.

A knowledge

B command

C need

D No improvement

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Question 66

The workers are hell bent at getting what is due to them.

A hell bent on getting

B hell bent for getting

C hell bent upon getting

D No improvement

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Question 67

Young men and women should get habituated to reading and writing about current affairs.

A used

B prepared

C trained

D No improvement

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Question 68

If the room had been brighter, I would have been able to read for a while before bed time.

A If the room was brighter

B If the room are brighter

C Had the room been brighter

D No improvement

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Question 69

Do how I say.

A as

B that

C like

D No improvement

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Question 70

his powerful desire brought about his downfall.

A His intense desire

B His desire for power

C His fatal desire

D No improvement

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