Verbal Ability

Sentence Improvement - Section 1

Directions to Solve

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.

91.  If you had attended the meeting, you would have benefited a great deal.

A. could benefit
B. would benefit
C. benefited
D. No improvement
92.  This matter admits of no excuse.

A. admits to
B. admits from
C. admits
D. No improvement
93.  If he would have tried he would have succeeded.

A. is tried
B. was tried
C. had tried
D. No improvement
94.  The poor villagers have waited in the bitter cold for more than 4 hours now.

A. have been waiting
B. had waited
C. has been waiting
D. No improvement
95.  The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly no effort at all.

A. hard effort
B. hardly any effort
C. a hardly any effort
D. No improvement
96.  The company goes to great length to ensure that employees can be comfortable in their work environment.

A. are comfortable
B. will be comfortable
C. should be comfortable
D. No improvement
97.  I want you to clearly understand that excuses won't do

A. you clearly to understand
B. you to understand clearly
C. to clearly understand you
D. No improvement
98.  He was fined for careless driving.

A. got fined
B. fined
C. was to be fined
D. No improvement
99.  Although India is still by far a poor country, it can become rich if its natural and human resources are fully utilised.

A. few and far between
B. by and large
C. by and by
D. No improvement
100.  The reason why he wrote the letter was because he could not contact him over the phone.

A. why he wrote the letter was since
B. for which he wrote the letter because
C. why he wrote the letter was that
D. No improvement

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