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Sentence improvement - Test Set 1

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  1. Question 1

    SSC GD- 2024
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    A large number of people have been get clean and pure water.
    1. No improvement
    2. been gets
    3. has been got
    4. have been getting
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  2. Question 2

    SSC GD- 2024
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    The subway fare is go up next week.
    1. fare is going
    2. fare has going
    3. fare has been going
    4. No improvement
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  3. Question 3

    SSC GD-2023
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    I am born in the United States. Yet I consider myself Indian.
    1. I was born in the United States
    2. No improvement
    3. I was born at the United States
    4. I was born in United States
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  4. Question 4

    SSC GD- 2023
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    Robinson Crusoe puzzles when he discovered a footprint in the sand.
    1. was puzzled
    2. has puzzled
    3. is puzzled
    4. No improvement
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  5. Question 5

    SSC MTS- 2024
    Select the option that will improve the underline part of the given sentence.

    Arun asks Smita to copy the contents of the document word by word.
    1. word for word
    2. word par word
    3. word with word
    4. word to word
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  6. Question 6

    SSC MTS- 2023
    Select the option that will improve the underline part of the given sentence.

    Selling, purchasing, and using an illegally copied product is a criminal offence.
    1. an obsolete
    2. a pirated
    3. an outlawed
    4. a crooked
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  7. Question 7

    SSC MTS- 2021
    Select the option that will improve the underline part of the given sentence.

    Srilekha is Mr. Singhs daughter.
    1. Mr. Singh
    2. Mr. Singhs’
    3. Mr. Singh’s
    4. Mr. Singhs’s
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  8. Question 8

    SSC MTS- 2024
    Select the option that will improve the underline part of the given sentence.

    All in all, he had the more splendid collection of antique painting ever.
    1. most splendid
    2. more splendider
    3. splendid
    4. splendidest
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  9. Question 9

    SSC CHSL- 2024
    Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underline words in the given sentence.

    It is a general belief that the female ostrich guard the nest at night.
    1. guarded the nest at night
    2. guards the nest at night
    3. does guard the nest in night
    4. is guarding the nest at night
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  10. Question 10

    SSC CHSL- 2024
    Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underline words in the given sentence.

    I am down with her complaints.
    1. looked down with
    2. passed out with
    3. fed up with
    4. held down with
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  11. Question 11

    SSC CHSL- 2024
    Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underline words in the given sentence.

    The road which connecting the two states is overcrowded.
    1. connects
    2. connected
    3. have connected
    4. has connecting
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  12. Question 12

    SSC CHSL- 2024
    Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underline words in the given sentence.

    Children should avoid giving out personal details online which will identify them or their location.
    1. which might lead
    2. what will
    3. that could
    4. whichever can
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  13. Question 13

    SSC CGL- 2022
    . Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    It is the true fact that the second wave of Covid-19 that has gripped India is more deadly.
    1. the correct fact
    2. No improvement
    3. a real fact
    4. a fact
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  14. Question 14

    SSC CGL- 2020
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    A hole is in my pocket.
    1. There is a hole
    2. No improvement
    3. A hole there is
    4. A hole are there
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  15. Question 15

    SSC CGL- 2020
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    Sing always when he is having a shower.
    1. He always sings
    2. He always sing
    3. No improvement
    4. Always he is singing
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  16. Question 16

    SSC CGL- 2022
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    The solders would not have surrendered if they not ran out of ammunition.

    1. did not ran out
    2. had not run out
    3. do not run out
    4. No improvement
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  17. Question 17

    SSC GD- 2023
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    While I was driving the car, my brother talked over phone to his kid.
    1. was talking over the phone
    2. had talked over the phone
    3. No improvement
    4. talking over the phone
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  18. Question 18

    SSC GD- 2023
    Improve the underline part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.

    The entire economy has been effected by the riots in the state.
    1. have been effected
    2. No improvement
    3. have been affected
    4. has been affected
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  19. Question 19

    SSC MTS- 2024
    Select the option that will improve the underline part of the given sentence.

    The bread was drier and stale.
    1. dry
    2. much drier
    3. driest
    4. more drier
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  20. Question 20

    SSC MTS- 2024
    Select the option that will improve the underline part of the given sentence.

    Mita is smart than many other kids in the school.
    1. most smart
    2. less smart
    3. smartest
    4. Smarter
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