Sentence Improvement for SBI PO : Set 22
Sentence Improvement
1. The alarming report of the building collapse held everyone spellbound.
(a) alarmed report
(b) alarmed reporting
(c) reporting alarm
(d) reported alarm
(e) No correction required
2. When he left the house, it has not ceased raining
(a) Ever before
(b) Ever since
(c) Until
(d) no improvement
3. You’d have won if you acted upon my advice.
(a) had acted
(b) would have acted
(c) have acted
(d) no improvement
4. Don’t hold this dirty insect, throw it.
(a) throw it down
(b) throw it out
(c) throw it away
(d) no improvement
5. All that I wish to tell you is that you better revise this essay.
(a) should better
(b) could better
(c) had better
(d) no improvement
6. If it were possible to get near when one of the volcanic eruptions took place, we should see a grand sight.
(a) takes
(b) was taking
(c) is taking
(d) no improvement
7. 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
8. 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
9. It is time you start earning your own living.
(a) started
(b) would start
(c) may start
(d) no improvement
10. The sun set before we reached the village.
(a) would have set
(b) would set
(c) had set
(d) no improvement
