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Verbal Ability :: Sentence Improvement

Directions To Solve

In the questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicized and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicized part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option 'D' is the answer.

  1. I would have waited for you at the station if I knew that you would come.

  2. A.

    had known

    B.

    was knowing

    C.

    have known

    D.

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  3. They are social insects, living in communities, regulated by definite laws, each member of society bearing well-defined and separate part in the work of a colony.

  4. A.

    who are living in communities

    B.

    living among a community

    C.

    who lives with a community

    D.

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  5. Practically every part of the banana tree is used by man.

  6. A.

    each part

    B.

    any part

    C.

    most part

    D.

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  7. My opinion for the film is that it will bag the national ward.

  8. A.

    opinion to

    B.

    opinion about

    C.

    opinion on

    D.

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  9. The end of the examinations is (an) oppurtunity for celebrating.

  10. A.

    chance

    B.

    moment

    C.

    occasion

    D.

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  11. We were not the wiser for all this effort to explain the case to us.

  12. A.

    none

    B.

    neither

    C.

    nevertheless

    D.

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  13. Whenever my students come across new words, I ask them to look for them in the dictionary.

  14. A.

    to look it up

    B.

    to look them up

    C.

    to look at them

    D.

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