PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-08

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the given question, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (1), (2), (3) and (4) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (5) i.e. No improvement required.

Question No : 1

It looks as though any attempt to persuade children of the authority of a particular moral code would be tantamount to indoctrination.

(1) morality code would be tantamount to

(2) moral codes will being tantamount to

(3) morally code would be tantamount with

(4) moral code will be tantamount to

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 2

You should visit France when you had been to England.

(1) had gone to England

(2) go to England

(3) were going to England

(4) should have gone to England

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 3

The management has been left with no option else to change the branch timings to avoid losing business.

(1) but to change

(2) except the change of

(3) unless it changes with

(4) other than the changing

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 4

If he considered you to be a bright, capable and made contribution to his proposed project, he would have listened to your criticism.

(1) Are bright, he capable and had made contribution to

(2) To be bright, capable and making contribution to

(3) To be bright, capable and had been contributed for

(4) Would have been bright, capable and contributing with

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 5

We have important issues to deal with, but these petty arguments keep getting in the way.

(1) because manner of

(2) since ways are

(3) by way of

(4) in the way of

(5) No improvement required