PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-67

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

If we had known you were sick, we will visit you in the hospital.

(1) Would

(2) Would have visited

(3) Could

(4) Will have

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

Cathy is playing the piano for 35 years when she was finally asked to do a solo with the local orchestra.

(1) Was playing

(2) Had been playing

(3) Was playing

(4) Has been playing

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

The labour unrest which sweeps the country last week has quietened down.

(1) Swept the country

(2) Has been sweeping the country

(3) Had been sweeping the country

(4) Have been swept the country

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

She will need speech therapy after she suffered severe head injuries in a car accident.

(1) would need

(2) would be needing

(3) needed

(4) needs

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

The students handed in their papers to the invigilator and left the room.

(1) Handed on

(2) Handed across

(3) Handed of

(4) Handed for

(5) No correction required