Sentence Improvement
Direction: In each of the questions, a sentence is given which has an underlined part. Select the best replacement for the underlined phrase from the given options.
- My grandmother was delighted to know that I will be visiting her during the summer holiday and said she will look forward to have me at her home.
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Looking forward to having/seeing/meeting etc. is the correct phrase.
Correct Option: D
Looking forward to having/seeing/meeting etc. is the correct phrase.
- Neither side seems serious about negotiating, and the region is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the Iran-Saudi divide that has seen airstrikes kill at least 1,000 Yemenis and displaced hundreds of thousand.
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Kill and displace is the correct parallel structure.
Correct Option: C
Kill and displace is the correct parallel structure.
- Savvy shoppers know the two golden rules of the super-market: shop the perimeter, where the fresh produce is stashed, and never going to the grocery store hungry.
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The sentence should follow parallel construction: 'shop the perimeter' and 'never go' ,
Correct Option: C
The sentence should follow parallel construction: 'shop the perimeter' and 'never go' ,
- 'How much we used to read!' he lamented, as though reading was a group activity just as trekking was.
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'Reading were' is used to indicate the improbability of the condition
Correct Option: B
'Reading were' is used to indicate the improbability of the condition
- Days before Congress leader Narayan Rane lost the by-election in Bandra East assembly constituency, his second consecutive electoral defeat, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis could have predicted of this.
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Past perfect tense is to be used for prediction.
Correct Option: D
Past perfect tense is to be used for prediction.