Sentence improvement For SBI PO Set – 39

1. The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly no effort at all.

(a) hard effort

(b) hardly any effort

(c) a hardly any effort

(d) no improvement

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(b) hardly any effort

2. Five years ago today, I am sitting in a small Japanese car, driving across Poland towards Berlin.

(a) was sitting

(b) sat

(c) have been sitting

(d) no improvement

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(a) was sitting

3. The record for the biggest tiger hunt has not been met since 1911 when Lord Hardinge, then Viceroy of India, shot a tiger that measured 11 feet and 6 inches.

(a) improved

(b) broken

(c) bettered

(d) no improvement

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(b) broken

4. If he would have tried, he would have succeeded.

(a) is tried

(b) was tried

(c) had tried

(d) no improvement

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(c) had tried

5. I will not go to school, if it shall rain tomorrow.

(a) it would rain tomorrow

(b) it will rain tomorrow

(c) it rains tomorrow

(d) no improvement

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(c) it rains tomorrow

6. Why the dinosaurs died out is not known.

(a) it is not known

(b) the reason is not known

(c) that is not known

(d) no improvement

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(d) no improvement

7. He is quite well now, except a slight cold.

(a) except with a slight cold

(b) excepting a slight cold

(c) except for a slight cold

(d) no improvement

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(c) except for a slight cold

8. I have been there often, because it had to be a nice place.

a) Had to be a nice place

b) Must be nice going there

c) Is a nice place

d) I felt so

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c) Is a nice place

9. I was a bit surprised to see a call from an unknown number, so first of all I asked “What are you?”

(a) Which are you

(b) who are you

(c) Why did you call

(d) How are you

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(b) who are you

10. Though the concert had been enjoyable, it was protracted overly.

(a) It was protracted.

(b) It overly protracted.

(c) It protracted

(d) It got protracted overly.

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(a) It was protracted.