PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-80

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

Plunging through drifts, leap hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank

(1) Leaping hollows

(2) Having leaped hollows

(3) Have been leaping hollows

(4) Has been leaping hollows

(5) No correction required

Question No : 2

She was shopping for almost an hour when she got an important phone call.

(1) Shopped

(2) Have shopping

(3) Had been shopping

(4) Has shopped

(5) No correction required

Question No : 3

He is not worried about how Washington and Westminster are going to get in.

(1) Get down

(2) Get along

(3) Get on

(4) Get across

(5) No correction required

Question No : 4

While you washed the dishes, Sue was washing his car.

(1) Were washing

(2) Are washing

(3) Was washing

(4) Have been washing

(5) No correction required

Question No : 5

If these two advances could be combined, we would has an supply of solar energy that is cheap, abundant, and environmentally benign.

(1) Have a supply of

(2) Had a supply of

(3) Has been a supply of

(4) Had an supply of

(5) No correction required