PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-52

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 correction required’.

Question No : 1

Agriculture had being been at the centre of negotiations in the Doha Round.

(1) have had being

(2) have been

(3) having been

(4) has been

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

He wouldn't have lost his route if he took the map with him.

(1) Takes

(2) Will take

(3) Would take

(4) Had taken

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

Staggering with exhaustion after their long day on the river, the boat was dragged into the shallows.

(1) The rafters drags their boat

(2) The rafters drag its boat

(3) The rafters dragged their boat

(4) The boat had been dragged

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

After having spending forty years in a cave at the foot of Mount Sinai, he became abbot of the monastery.

(1) Spend

(2) Spent

(3) Been spend

(4) Been spending

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

The path to my fixed purpose is laid on iron rails, on which my soul is grooving run.

(1) were grooved to run

(2) grooved to run

(3) was grooving to run

(4) is groove to run

(5) No correction required