Sentence Improvement MCQ Set 8
She has a good command of English. (Improve)
- A. command in
- B. command on
- C. No improvement (Answer)
- D. command over
'Command of' a language is the correct expression. No improvement needed.
She is more clever than her sister. (Improve)
- A. cleverer than (Answer)
- B. most clever than
- C. cleverest than
- D. No improvement
One-syllable adjectives and some two-syllable ones form comparatives by adding -er. 'Cleverer' is preferred.
He made a great progress in his study. (Improve)
- A. a great progresses
- B. great progress (Answer)
- C. great progresses
- D. No improvement
'Progress' is uncountable — no article, no plural form.
She could not remember where had she kept the keys. (Improve)
- A. where she had kept (Answer)
- B. where did she keep
- C. where she kept
- D. No improvement
In embedded/indirect questions, use normal sentence word order (subject + verb), not inverted.
He has not wrote to me since January. (Improve)
- A. has not write
- B. has not written (Answer)
- C. had not written
- D. No improvement
The past participle of 'write' is 'written', not 'wrote'. 'Wrote' is simple past.
I am learning English from last year. (Improve)
- A. have been learning English since (Answer)
- B. learned English from
- C. have been learning English from
- D. No improvement
Present perfect continuous with 'since' is correct for ongoing actions from a past point.
The audience were asked to take their seat. (Improve)
- A. to take their seats (Answer)
- B. to take seat
- C. to take a seat
- D. No improvement
Since multiple audience members are seated, 'their seats' (plural) is correct.
He works very hardly. (Improve)
- A. very hard (Answer)
- B. hardily
- C. harder
- D. No improvement
'Hard' is both an adjective and adverb. 'Hardly' means 'scarcely/barely', not 'with great effort'.
She is the most talented of the two sisters. (Improve)
- A. more talented of (Answer)
- B. more talented than
- C. the most talented than
- D. No improvement
When comparing two, use comparative degree. 'Most talented of the two' is incorrect.
He passed with first division. (Improve)
- A. in first division
- B. No improvement (Answer)
- C. with the first division
- D. from first division
'Passed with first division' is an acceptable expression in Indian English. No improvement needed.
Sentence Improvement — Set 8
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