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 :21

Any policy of social welfare will be likely to face resistance from vested interests.

Answer: (a)

Question :22

The TV news is doctored by non-professionals and whetted by political higher-ups.

Answer: (a)

'Vetted' means examined thoroughly and critically. 'Whetted' means sharpened.

Question :23

The students often play truant, didn't they?

Answer: (b)

As the sentence is a general statement, with the verb in present tense, the answer cannot be 'didn't' (past tense form).

Question :24

The argument against privatisation stems from a fear that the national assets were being handed to the private sector.

Answer: (a)

There is no subject-verb invension in a statement form of sentence.

Question :25

The complex nature of the modern industrial civilisation and the explosion of knowledge have made the education process very complicated.

Answer: (a)

'Educational', an adj., needs to be used here. It is 'the educational process' (process of education) and not 'education process'.

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