Sentence Improvement

1. Whenever Suresh gets into trouble he makes a story to get out of it.

(a) makes for

(b) makes out

(c) makes up

(d) no improvement

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 (c) makes up

2. I had given him a lot of money, but he ran up it in a couple of weeks.

(a) ran into

(b) ran down

(c) ran through

(d) no improvement

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 (c) ran through

3. It is time you start earning your own living.

(a) started

(b) would start

(c) may start

(d) no improvement

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 (a) started 

4. The sun set before we reached the village.

(a) would have set

(b) would set

(c) had set

(d) no improvement

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 (c) had set 

5. He evaded to pay income tax.

(a) from paying

(b) against paying

(c) paying

(d) no improvement

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6. The members swore on the Constitution to uphold the integrity of the country.

(a) by

(b) at

(c) upon

(d) no improvement

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 (c) upon 

7. He enquired after my health.

(a) of

(b) for

(c) into

(d) no improvement

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 (d) no improvement 

8. I am the secretary of the sports club since its formation five years ago.

(a) was

(b) have been

(c) had been

(d) no improvement

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 (b) have been 

9. Naveen has left when I reached his home.

(a) has to leave

(b) had left

(c) had leave

(d) leaves

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 (b) had left 

10. In no field of history has the search for logical explanation been so diligent so much as the study of the decline and fall of the Roman Expire.

(a) so much as

(b) as in

(c) for

(d) due to

(e) like

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 (b) as in