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Sentence Improvement Test 524
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Sentence Improvement Test 524

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  • Question 1/5
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) (D) and (E), one of which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

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    Bhakti Movement was also characterized by an abundance of devotional literature of vernacular prose and poetry in the ethnic languages of the various Indian states or provinces.
    Solutions
    A – Instead of ‘character’, ‘characterized’ will come.
    C – 'Abundance' starts with a vowel sound hence, instead of ‘a’, ‘an’ will come.
    D – Instead of ‘ever’, ‘also’ will come.
    E – ‘To’ is an incorrect preposition and in its place ‘by’ will come.
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    Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

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    The exploitation of land and forest resources by humans along with capturing and trapping for food and sport has lead to the extinction of many species in India of recent times.
    Solutions
    A – Instead of ‘lead’, the past participle form of verb must be used. ‘led’ should be used.
    B – Plural of time i.e. ‘times’ should be used.
    D – Extinction cannot be ‘in’ the species, it can be ‘of’ the species. Here we have an incorrect use of the preposition. 
    E – Instead of the preposition ‘of’, ‘in’ should be used.
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E), i.e., ‘No correction required’.

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    In the years since its independence, India has made immense progress towards food security here with the increase in the population, the food-grain production has more than quadrupled.
    Solutions
    A – ‘Had’ is an incorrect verb as the sentence isn’t in the past tense.
    B – 'has making' is incorrect grammar.
    C – ‘Process’ is an incorrect word as it doesn’t make sense.
    D – ‘Human’ security has not been discussed in the sentence. 
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

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    Activists and scholars have offered a number of conflicting reasons in farmer suicides, such as monsoon failure, high debt burdens, genetically modified crops, government policies, public mental health, personal issues and family problems.
    Solutions
    You provide reasons 'for' something and not 'in' something. Thus, the preposition 'in' needs to be replaced by 'for'. Thus, option D is the correct answer. 
    A – present participle of “suicide” is incorrect.
    B – 'have offering' doesn't make sense, hence offering is incorrect. 
    C – Instead of ‘conflicts’, ‘conflicting’ should come since the word conflict here defines reasons.  
  • Question 5/5
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    Directions For Questions

    Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the emboldened part are given as (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative out of the given five options. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer will be (E), i.e., "No correction required".

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    The Indus is the most important supplier of water resources in the Punjab and Sindh plains – it forms the backbone of agriculture and food production in Pakistan.
    Solutions
    A – ‘A’ is an incorrect determiner and instead of it ‘the’ will come 
    B – Instead of comparative degree i.e. ‘more’ superlative degree will come i.e. ‘most’ 
    C – Indus is the ‘supplier’ of water and not a ‘supply’
    Hence, option D is the correct replacement as 'to' is the correct preposition that should replace 'in'.
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