OBJECTIVE ENGLISH - SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT QUIZ 22 for SBI, RRB, IBPS, RBI, SEBI, IRDA, NABARD & Other Bank Exams

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1. Directions: which of the phrases (A), (B), (C), and (D) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and no correction is required, mark (E) as the answer.

He came after I have done the work.

a) before I had done the work

b) after I had done the work

c) after I did the work

d) before I did the work

e) No correction required.

2. She would have definitely been saved, if she had been taken to hospital in time.

a. she would have been taken to hospital in time

b. she would be taken to hospital in time

c. she had been taken to the hospital in time

d. she was taken to hospital in time

e. No correction required.

3. What are needed are some of your paraphernalia and a turban to look priestly.

a. what is needed are

b. what needs are

c. what are needed is

d. what is needed is

e. No correction required.

4. I hope that you will do the needful.

a. do what the needful is

b. do the needs

c. do what are the needful

d. do what is needed

e. No correction required.

5. Despite being downright exhausted, she continued working which caused her illness.

a. inspite of being downright exhausted

b. despite downright exhausted

c. despite being downright exhausting

d. inspite of being too exhausted

e. No correction required.

6. Not tolerating the trauma that she had had, she poisoned herself.

a. she had been have

b. she has been had

c. she was had

d. she had been had

e. No correction required.

7. Getting no room in the bus, she managed travelling standing.

a. she had managed travelling standing

b. she managed travelling in the standing posture.

c. she managed to travel standing

d. she had managed to travel standing

e. No correction required.

8. Since 1972, there has not been occurred any famine here.

a. there had not been occurred

b. there has not been occurring

c. there is no occurrence of

d. there has not occurred

e. No correction required

9. It is high time that my son is getting prepared to go to school.

a. my son was prepared

b. my son is preparing

c. my son got prepared

d. my son has got prepared

e. No correction required.

10. When his father had gone bankrupt, he had nothing to give his children but toils and tears.

a. but to toil and tears

b. but toil and tears

c. except toils and tears

d. except toiling and tears

e. No correction required

11. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

a. Should be in want for a wife

b. Must be for want of a wife

c. Must be in need of a wife

d. Is wanted by a wife

e. No correction required.