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.

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

A. touch upon
B. touch on
C. touch of
D. No improvement
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
64.  He could not look anything in the dark room.

A. look at
B. see
C. see through
D. No improvement
65.  The greatest thing in style is to have a use of metaphor.

A. knowledge
B. command
C. need
D. No improvement
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
67.  Young men and women should get habituated to reading and writing about current affairs.
A. used
B. prepared
C. trained
D. No improvement
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
69.  Do how I say.
A. as
B. that
C. like
D. No improvement
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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