sentences improvement Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

To decide the correct option first of all, we must understand the meaning of all the phrases given under different options as well as the phrase used in bold.

Wash away = to carry away something; or to destroy and carry away something by rain or floods.

Wash off = to remove something from the surface of something or from clothes by washing.

Wash out = (of a dirty mark) to be removed from clothes by washing.

Wash up = to wash dishes after a meal.

Now, it is clear that the bold part should be replaced with ‘wash up’, ie option (c).

Answer: (a)

The ‘hard’ means ‘tough or requiring a lot of efforts’ whereas ‘Hardly’ means ‘not enough’. The given sentence is written to express a sense that a lot of effort led to his success.

Therefore, the obvious word should be ‘hard’ not ‘hardly’. Options (a) and (b) are ruled out, because, in these two options, ‘hardly’ have been used. Option (c) has ‘he had tried hard’. This option is obsolutely correct. Therefore we should opt for this option.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

'Before' means ‘in front of’, ‘behind’ means ‘hidden or doing something from within’. So, the correct choice is (a). All other options are widely deviated.

Answer: (d)

After a preposition (Here it is ‘about’) the verb takes gerund (v+ing). Hence ‘exercise’ should be ‘exercising’.

Due to this options (a) and (c) are ruled out. Now let us consider option (b). Here in this option, an extra word ‘without’ has been inserted. Such type of insertion makes the sentence absurd.

Hence this option cannot be correct. Option (d) is least deviated from the phrase in bold. Hence (d) is the correct option.