Sentence Improvement MCQ Set 10
She was wearing a trouser. (Improve)
- A. wearing trousers (Answer)
- B. wearing a pair of trouser
- C. wearing trouser
- D. No improvement
'Trousers' is a plural noun and does not take 'a'. Use 'trousers' or 'a pair of trousers'.
Neither of the players have played well. (Improve)
- A. have been playing
- B. has played (Answer)
- C. had played
- D. No improvement
'Neither' takes a singular verb. 'Neither of the players has played well'.
They requested the Chairman to look the matter. (Improve)
- A. to look after the matter (Answer)
- B. to look in the matter
- C. to look on the matter
- D. No improvement
'Look after' means to take care of or deal with something.
He did the mistake of trusting him. (Improve)
- A. committed the mistake
- B. made the mistake (Answer)
- C. No improvement
- D. caused the mistake
'Make a mistake' is the correct collocation, not 'do a mistake'.
She married with a rich man. (Improve)
- A. married to a rich man
- B. married a rich man
- C. Both A and B (Answer)
- D. No improvement
Both 'married a rich man' (no preposition) and 'married to' (describing current status) are correct.
I saw the boy to play cricket. (Improve)
- A. to playing cricket
- B. playing cricket (Answer)
- C. played cricket
- D. No improvement
Perception verbs (see, hear, watch) take bare infinitive or present participle, not 'to + infinitive'.
He is tired to walk any further. (Improve)
- A. tired of walking (Answer)
- B. tired for walking
- C. tired in walking
- D. No improvement
'Tired of + gerund' means fed up with something.
The examination papers were checked by each teacher. (Improve)
- A. by every teacher
- B. No improvement (Answer)
- C. by some teachers
- D. by all of teacher
The sentence is grammatically correct. No improvement needed.
He is very fond of his own self. (Improve)
- A. fond of himself (Answer)
- B. fond of oneself
- C. No improvement
- D. fond of his self
'Fond of himself' is the correct reflexive form for third person singular.
He works sincere and hard. (Improve)
- A. sincerely and hardly
- B. sincerely and hard (Answer)
- C. sincere and hardly
- D. No improvement
Adverbs modify verbs. 'Sincerely' (adverb) and 'hard' (also serves as adverb) are both correct modifiers.
Sentence Improvement — Set 10
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