PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-02

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the given question, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below the sentence, alternatives to the emboldened part are given as (1), (2), (3) and (4), which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative out of the given five options. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer will be option (5), i.e., “No correction required”.

Question No : 1

In the next five years I will have finished university and I’ll be able to earn some money.

(1) Will finish

(2) Would finish

(3) Finish

(4) Finished

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

have been watching the programme every week, but I missed the last episode.

(1) Will be watching

(2) Was watching

(3) Am watching

(4) Had been watching

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

He returned from the kitchen with a tray holding a glass of orange juice, a plate of homemade granola bars, and two plastics bowls containing sliced apples.

(1) Two plastic bowl

(2) Two plastic bowls

(3) Two plastics bowl

(4) Twos plastic bowl

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

Several attempts have been made, the earliest going back so far as 60 years ago to create a sense of continental unity among the various countries of Asia.

(1) The earliest goes back 60 years ago

(2) The earliest has gone back so far as 60 years ago

(3) The earliest dated as far as 60 years ago

(4) The earliest going back so far as 60 years ago

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

In case you didn’t bothered about reading the documents, let me summarize them in bullet points.

(1) Didn’t bother about

(2) Do bothering about

(3) Do bother about

(4) Didn’t bothered about

(5) No correction required