sentence improvement Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ssc mts paper 1 2023

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 :6

It was indeed a shock for her, but she has later recovered from it.

Answer: (a)

'Since' here is used to mean 'subsequently'.

Question :7

All his answers were correct.

Answer: (b)

When 'all' is followed by the noun, 'of' is not necessary after 'all'. When a pronoun follows 'all' ('his', here), an 'of' is necessary.

Question :8

When the professor fell off the stool, the students could not avoid to laugh.

Answer: (c)

'Avoid' takes an '-ing' form of verb. A better phrase would be 'help laughing', but it is not among the given options.

Question :9

He stopped to work an hour ago.

Answer: (b)

'Stopped' takes an '-ing' form of verb, not a 'to' infinitive.

Question :10

If you get confused while performing the act, just don't stop to try.

Answer: (d)

Options (a) and (b) are grammatically wrong. If (c) had 'do' before 'not', it would also have been a correct option.

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