PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-71

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

According to the investigators, the hammer used in the crime was the one who is used by security guards to sound the hourly bell on a metal plate while on duty.

(1) are those ones which

(2) was the one that

(3) which one

(4) is ones that

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

The actor was happy he got a part in a movie, since the part was a small one.

(1) though the part

(2) although the part

(3) but the part

(4) despite the part

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

He had always have a full measure of a trait that is a mark of a successful leader's determination.

(1) did always do a full measure of a trait

(2) had always did have a full measure of a trait

(3) had always have a fully measured traits

(4) has always had a full measure of a trait

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

The product-driven organization has the product as the most important element in everything it does.

(1) does everything to have the product’s most important element

(2) does the most important things to have all elements in importance in its the product

(3) had the product as the most important element in everything they do

(4) keeps the most important element in every product they do

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

A defeated candidate who fails to secure more than one sixth of the valid votes polled in the constituency will lost his security deposit.

(1) Was lost his

(2) Can loses his

(3) Would loose his

(4) Will lose his

(5) No correction required