Sentence Improvement – 11

Click on the option given under each question which you think will improve the sentence.

SentenceAns

1. Let us go and see her new house, shall we?

  1. do we?
  2. don't we?
  3. do they?
  4. No improvement

2. It took a long time for him to realize, what was truth?

  1. what is truth?
  2. what was the truth?
  3. what the truth was?
  4. No improvement

3. My mother is worried about my father's health and also I.

  1. I also
  2. also me
  3. so am I
  4. also I am

4. Roads are wet, it must have rained last night.

  1. must had
  2. might had
  3. must have been
  4. No improvement

5. He must know them in their most plausible form, isn't it?

  1. isn't he?
  2. mustn't he?
  3. can't he?
  4. No improvement

6. English opens the window upon the world's knowledge.

  1. The English
  2. The English language
  3. The English land
  4. No improvement


SentenceAns

7. If one works hard, you have got the reward.

  1. one gets
  2. one has got
  3. one will get
  4. No improvement

8. The U. N. O. insists on better understanding between the countries of the world.

  1. among the countries
  2. with the countries
  3. by the countries
  4. No improvement

9. He doesn't smoke, nor I did.

  1. nor I smoke
  2. nor I do
  3. nor do I
  4. No improvement

10. His reasons can be good, is it not?

  1. can they be?
  2. isn't he?
  3. can't they be?
  4. No improvement

Explanations to the above

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5. and 10. Use negative question tags with positive sentences and vice versa.

8. among is used for more than two, while between is used for two objects.