improving the sentences Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ibps po prelims

Directions:

In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence has been italicised. Below are given alternatives to the part italicised which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative; wherever no improvement is needed choose 'No correction required' or 'No improvement' as the answer.

Question :1

The managing director said that the firm had ordered the goods and will have to pay for them.

Answer: (a)

The earlier verb being 'had ordered', uniform tense sequence has to be maintained.

Question :2

Though courageous, he could not hold up against the heavy odds.

Answer: (a)

'Hold out' means 'endure' or 'continue resistance'. 'Hold up' is to 'support' or 'bring to a standstill' or 'waylay in order to rob'. 'Hold in' is to 'check' or 'restrain oneself'. 'Hold fast' means to 'secure a thing in place'.

Question :3

How one earns money is more important than how much he earned.

Answer: (b)

Observe sequence of tenses and parallel pronouns.

Question :4

One can live and work in a town without being aware of the daily march of the sun across the sky and without never seeing the moon and stars.

Answer: (b)

'Without' is a word with a negative meaning. So is 'never'. The two shouldn't come together.

Question :5

In India today, many of our intellectuals still talk in terms of the French Revolution and the Rights of Man, not appreciating that much has happened since then.

Answer: (d)

No improvement.

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