Sentence Improvement MCQ Set 5
He gave me many good advices. (Improve)
- A. much good advices
- B. much good advice (Answer)
- C. many good advice
- D. No improvement
'Advice' is uncountable. It has no plural form. Use 'much advice' or 'a piece of advice'.
She made him to wait for two hours. (Improve)
- A. made him waited
- B. made him wait (Answer)
- C. made him waiting
- D. No improvement
Causative 'make' is followed by a bare infinitive (without 'to'): make someone do.
The furniture are new. (Improve)
- A. furnitures are
- B. furniture were
- C. furniture is (Answer)
- D. No improvement
'Furniture' is an uncountable noun and takes a singular verb.
She is more taller than her sister. (Improve)
- A. most tall
- B. taller (Answer)
- C. more tall
- D. No improvement
'Taller' is already comparative. Adding 'more' creates an incorrect double comparative.
He did not say nothing about his plan. (Improve)
- A. did not say anything (Answer)
- B. did not say something
- C. said not nothing
- D. No improvement
Double negatives are wrong in Standard English. 'Did not say anything' is correct.
She was so depressed that she could not hardly speak. (Improve)
- A. could not speak
- B. could hardly speak (Answer)
- C. could not hard speak
- D. No improvement
'Hardly' itself carries negative meaning. Adding 'not' creates a double negative. Use 'could hardly speak'.
He is one of the sincere worker in the office. (Improve)
- A. most sincere worker
- B. one of the sincere workers (Answer)
- C. a most sincere worker
- D. No improvement
'One of the + plural noun' is the correct structure.
I have a tendency to speak English grammatically wrong. (Improve)
- A. grammatically wrongly
- B. grammatically incorrect
- C. grammatically incorrectly (Answer)
- D. No improvement
An adverb modifies a verb. 'Incorrectly' (adverb) modifies 'speak'. 'Wrong' is an adjective.
He insisted that I should drink the water. (Improve)
- A. insisted that I must drink
- B. insisted on my drinking (Answer)
- C. insisted that I ought to drink
- D. No improvement
'Insist on + possessive + gerund' or 'insist that + subject + should + verb' are both acceptable, but option B is most precise.
Let you and I decide the matter. (Improve)
- A. Let you and me (Answer)
- B. Let us and I
- C. Let I and you
- D. No improvement
After 'let', use objective case 'me', not nominative 'I'.
Sentence Improvement — Set 5
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