Model paper of English Sentence Correction Questions for competitive exams exercises.
Q1. Weights of up to 190 kg are so much as all the strongest athletes lift, and then only in competition, or the final days of training before a competition.
- so much as all
- as much as even
- even so much as
- even as much that
- even so much
Answer: B
Explanation:All of the answer choices contain the word as. From the idiomatic expressions tutorial we know that as and as...as are both on the list of idiomatic expressions. This question requires an answer that is idiomatically correct. As much as is the correct idiomatic expression because it gives us the sense of an equal comparison, making B the best answer.
Q2. Despite pleas from consumer advocate groups, the high gasoline prices of late seem like it is indicative that gasoline prices, although they have almost doubled in the past year, have not yet reached their peak.
- like it is indicative that
- as if to indicate
- indicative of
- to indicate that
- like an indication of
Answer: D
Explanation: If we return to our list of common idiomatic expressions from the tutorial, we can quickly eliminate the wrong answers. Choice A is eliminated because it does not refer to anything, it would need to be they because the nouns preceding it are plural. However, this change would still not make choice A grammatically correct. The correct idiomatic expression is seem + infinitive (to). Without that, B is not grammatically correct. D is therefore the correct answer
Q3. Although the exact costs of shoplifting amounted to less than three percent of retail expenses last year, large retailers say that shoplifting results in consumers paying as much as fifteen percent more for common household goods.
- amounted to less
- amounts to less
- amounted to a lower
- amounted to a lower sum
- Is a sum less
Answer : A
Explanation: The correct answer will provide us with subject-verb agreement. The subject - costs, the verb - amount, the agreement is found by referring to the expenses last year (in the past). The subject here is plural, we need to find an answer choice where the verb is in the past tense for a plural subject amounted.
Choices A, C, and D remain. We are able to eliminate C because lower is an adjective, and in D lower sum is redundant. A is the correct answer, as it is concise, has subject-verb agreement, and does not complicate the sentence.
Q4. Although he had been ill while in childhood, John Doe was 102 years old when he died peacefully in his sleep.
- while in childhood
- while being a child
- while a child
- at the time of being a child
- as a child
Answer: E
Explanation: This sentence is completed by the correct idiomatic expression. The correct idiomatic expression for this example is choice E - as a child. Choice D's at the time of indicates a brief amount of time, certainly more brief than childhood, and is unidiomatic. While being a child (B) seems to imply that John Doe has been acting like a child, rather than referring to his actual childhood. Choices A and C are simply not idiomatically correct. The correct answer, choice E, fits with as from our list of idiomatic expressions - as a child follows the same format of as a scout.
Q5.It appears Leader X called for a massacre of his own people, the extent of which is so unimaginable it constituted what many historians call the worst genocide in humankind.
- so unimaginable it constituted
- so unimaginable as to constitute
- unimaginable enough so that it constitutes
- unimaginable enough so as to constitute
- so unimaginable that it has constituted
Answer: B
Explanation: In this example, is and call are in the present tense. This means that although the massacre happened in the past, it is being judged in the present, hence the answer choices with the past tense constituted are eliminated. Now the process of elimination comes down to the awkwardness of choices C and D, both are idiomatically incorrect, as enough so would have worked better as enough to constitute. We are left with B as the best answer.
Q6.The end of the twentieth century saw the emergence of dot com companies, with individual companies going public, stocks reaching unprecedented levels, and it had caused feverish interest whenever their stocks went on the market.
- it had caused
- would cause
- causing
- it caused
- caused
Answer: C
Explanation: This question involves parallel construction. In this series, the verbs not underlined are going and reaching. Because of this, we can eliminate all answer choices in which the verb cause does not follow the "-ing" pattern. Causing, choice C, is the only option with the gerund or "-ing" form, thus making it the correct answer.
Q7. Taking into account all weather phenomena, the occurrence of a tidal wave is probably the more difficult to predict.
- probably the more difficult to predict.
- it may be, the prediction that is most difficult
- possibly the more difficult to predict
- is probably the most difficult to predict
- it is possible, the most difficult of all predictions
Answer: D
Explanation:In the sentence correction tutorial about comparisons, we learned that when more than two things are being compared, the superlative (most) is needed. The fact that ALL weather phenomena are being taken into account (we can assume this means more more than just two things), most is appropriate rather than more. Choices A and C contain more and are eliminated. Choice B is terribly awkward, as is E, which seems to go beyond the issue of all weather phenomena. Choice D then, is the best answer.
Q8. Centuries old paintings found in abandoned Albanian villages indicate that the villagers at that time had been part of a larger artistic community.
- had been part of a larger artistic community.
- were part of a larger artistic community
- were a community that was largely artistic
- had been part of a larger community that was artistic
- were villagers who had been part of a larger artistic community
Answer: B
Explanation:In this sentence at that time indicates an action in the past. All of the answer choices are in the past, so this process of elimination will also be about finding the most concise, grammatically correct answer. Choice E has an element of redundancy by repeating villagers. Choice C ignores the other parts of the artistic community, describing the villagers instead of the larger community that they were a part of. Choices A and D are unnecessarily wordy. Choice B, the correct answer, is the most concise option.
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