PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-38

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is given in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part, which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose the option ‘No improvement required’.

Question No : 1

A key concern for the market, that competitive pressures might push back on vehicle pricing, has been allayed.

(A) Have been allayed

(B) To be allay

(C) Being allayed

(1) Only (C)

(2) Both (A) and (B)

(3) Only (A)

(4) Both (B) and (C)

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 2

This crisis with India’s non-banking financial companies is still unfolded and could put the financial system through more pain.

(A) Still unfold

(B) Being still unfolded

(C) Is still unfolding

(1) Only (B)

(2) Only (C)

(3) Only (A)

(4) Both (B) and (C)

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 3

Distress, being it among job seekers or farmers, is farmers, is evident in too many indicators to be brushed aside as a figment of opposition hostility

(A) Been in among

(B) Be it among

(C) Being it amidst

(1) Only (C)

(2) Both (A) and (B)

(3) Both (B) and (C)

(4) Only (B)

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 4

Economist John Maynard Keynes had been said that the “animal spirits” of confidence and hope play a positive role in an economy

(A) Had said

(B) Had had said

(C) Had being said

(1) Both (A) and (B)

(2) Both (B) and (C)

(3) Only (A)

(4) Only (C)

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 5

If the enthusiasm seen on Dalal Street is to make its way to the various sectors of the real economy, must work stilled needs to be done.

(A) Must work will

(B) Must be worked still

(C) Much work still

(1) Only (C)

(2) Both (A) and (B)

(3) Both (B) and (C)

(4) Only (A)

(5) No improvement required