Sentence Improvement – 3

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

SentenceAns

1. If I were you, I would do it at once.

  1. was
  2. am
  3. would be
  4. No improvement

2. They set a strong guard, lest anyone could escape.

  1. would
  2. might
  3. should
  4. No improvement

3. The matter called up an explanation of his conduct.

  1. out
  2. in
  3. for
  4. No improvement

4. The accused refused having murdered anybody.

  1. disagreed
  2. denied
  3. declaimed
  4. No improvement

5. We need honest workers, not people of redoubtable integrity.

  1. doubting
  2. doubtful
  3. doubtless
  4. No improvement

6. By the time he arrived, everybody had gone home.

  1. when he arrived
  2. at which he arrived
  3. by which he arrived
  4. No improvement


SentenceAns

7. There is no alternate, so we must leave now.

  1. altering
  2. alternative
  3. alternation
  4. No improvement

8. I cannot listen what she is saying.

  1. hear what
  2. listen for what
  3. listen to that
  4. No improvement

9. He is still in vigorous health although he is on the right side of sixty.

  1. wrong
  2. left
  3. negative
  4. No improvement

10. We are sorry to hear regarding your father's death.

  1. of
  2. over
  3. for
  4. No improvement

Explanations to the above

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5. redoubtable means fearsome and is inappropriate here.

7. Alternative means option.

9. Wrong side of sixty means more than sixty years old.