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Correct the following sentences with answers – Sentence Correction

Directions: In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined, four different ways of phraseing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four.

1. Inequality of wealth is a great hindrance with economic development.
1) hindrance with economic development.
2) hindrance of economic development.
3) hindrance for economic development.
4) hindrance to economic development.

2. The dancing troupe was disqualified for participating in the dance competition.
1) disqualified for participating in the dance competition.
2) disqualified from participating in the dance competition.
3) disqualified against participating in the dance competition.
4) disqualified of participating in the dance competition.

3. Abhishek is quite infatuated with her.
1) infatuated with her.
2) infatuated of her.
3) infatuated for her.
4) infatuated about her.

4. Manak failed to seize upon the golden opportunity of his life.
1) failed to seize upon
2) failed to seize from
3) failed to seize of
4) failed to seize through

5. Subsequent from the meeting with Mr. Gupte, he stopped meeting her.
1) Subsequent from the meeting
2) Subsequent to the meeting
3) Subsequent of the meeting
4) Subsequent for the meeting

6. Postmodernists tend to think of outer frames as either instruments of hegemonic repression or supplemental frippery that can be ignored at will.
1) as either instruments of hegemonic repression or supplemental frippery that can be ignored at will.
2) as either instruments of hegemonic repression or supplemental frippery to be ignored at will.
3) either as instruments of hegemonic repression or supplemental frippery being ignored at will.
4) as instruments either of hegemonic repression or supplemental frippery which are ignored at will.

7. Founded in Paris in 1939, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) are bringing together institutions dedicated for rescuing films, both as cultural heritage and historical documentation.
1) is bringing together institutions dedicated for rescuing both films as cultural heritage and historical documentation.
2) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing films, both as cultural heritage and historical documentation.
3) brings together institutions of dedicated rescuing films, both as cultural heritage and historical documentation.
4) is bringing together dedicated institutions for rescuing films as both cultural heritage and historical documentation.

8. The transfer of copies of radio and television programmes from the national broadcasting organization to the national archive, being more or less constant has now become the object of policy and technical discussion.
1) which used to be more or less constant, has now become the object of policy and technical discussion.
2) which is being more or less constant, has now become the object of policy and technical discussion.
3) which used to be more or less constant, now becomes the object of policy and technical discussion.
4) having been more or less constant, has now become the object of policy and technical discussion.

9. The threat of biological attack in a short span of time has concerned major governments and is the focus of extensive research.
1) The threat of biological attack has become a major concern for governments and in a short span of time, the focus for extensive research.
2) In a short span of time, becoming focus of extensive research, the threat of biological attack has become a major concern of governments.
3) In a short span of time, while the threat of biological attack has become a major concern of governments, it has become the focus of extensive research.
4) In a short span of time, the threat of biological attack has become a major concern for governments and the focus of extensive research.

10. The New York Medical Journal reported that smallpox had developed in a young lady in Saginaw, Michigan, receiving a letter from her sweetheart soldier in Alaska, who had written it while recovering from this disease.
1) after receiving a letter from her sweetheart, writing it when he was a soldier in Alaska, he recovered from this disease.
2) who having received a letter from her sweetheart in Alaska, a soldier wrote it, while recovering from this disease.
3) after she received a letter from her sweetheart, a soldier in Alaska, who had written it while recovering from this disease.
4) after she received a letter from the soldier who was her sweetheart, in Alaska, who wrote it while recovering from this disease.

11. The oil giants have probably made most of the easy money, but individual investors can still load up on energy stocks at good prices, by know how of where to explore.
1) by know how of where to explore.
2) if they know where to explore.
3) by knowing exploration.
4) where they know to explore.

12. Neither the earthquake or the subsequent riots was able to dampen the spirit of the people of the ravaged land.
1) Neither the earthquake or the subsequent riots were able to
2) Neither the earthquake nor the subsequent riots were capable of
3) Neither the earthquake nor the riots that subsequently followed were able to
4) Neither the earthquake nor the subsequent riots were able to

13. Before you start a new business venture, a consultation with an astrologer is strongly recommended.
1) a consultation with an astrologer is strongly recommended.
2) you must consult an astrologer.
3) it is recommended that you consult an astrologer first.
4) we recommend that you consult an astrologer.

14. Completing the long and painful process of a complete psychological check-up, the patient was found to be suffering from heliophobia.
1) Completing the long and painful process of a complete psychological check-up, the patient was found to be suffering from heliophobia.
2) On completion of the long and painful process of a complete psychological check-up, the patient was found to be suffering from heliophobia.
3) The patient was found to be suffering from heliophobia, after having completed the long and painful process of a complete psychological check-up.
4) On completion of the long and painful process of a complete psychological check-up, it was found that the patient was suffering from heliophobia.

15. There is a gene that causes thalassemia, and if paired with a healthy gene the individual will not develop the symptoms of the disease.
1) If the gene that causes thalassemia is paired with a healthy gene, then the individual will not develop
2) If paired with a healthy gene, the gene that causes thalassemia will hinder the individual’s development of
3) A gene that, if paired with a healthy gene, will not develop in the individual causing thalassemia
4) The gene that causes thalassemia, if paired with a healthy gene, results the individual in not to develop

16. Improved solar technology, along with more lenient quotas, account for the recent increase in the amount of availability of LPG gas cylinders across the entire Eastern region.
1) account for the recent increase in the amount of
2) would account for a recent increase in
3) accounts for the recent increase in the
4) account for recent increases in amounts of

17. Survival of infancy is often as much as they hope fog everything else being left to luck.
1) Survival of infancy is often as much as they hope for, everything else being left to luck.
2) Survival within infancy is often as much as they hope for, with everything else left to luck.
3) Surviving infancy is often as much as they are hoping to, with everything else left to luck.
4) Surviving infancy is often as much as they hope for, with everything else left to luck.

18. Schizqphreniaya chronic and debilitating disorder is characterized by a heterogeneous group of symptoms, which includes positive symptoms, negative symptoms and multifaceted cognitive deficits, most prominently in the areas of attention, memory, and executive functioning.
1) Schizophrenia, a chronic and debilitating disorder is being characterized by a heterogeneous group of symptoms, which includes
2) Characterized by a chronic and debilitating disorder is a heterogeneous group of symptoms, which includes schizophrenia,
3) Being characterized by a chronic and debilitating disorder, schizophrenia is a heterogeneous group of symptoms including
4) Schizophrenia, a chronic and debilitating disorder is characterized by a heterogeneous group of symptoms, which include

19. College, a traditional time of transition and new freedoms, helps figure young people out who they are for the first time.
1) College, a traditional time of transition and new freedoms, helps figure young people out who they are for the first time.
2) College is a traditional time for transition and new freedoms, helping young -people figure out who they are for the first time.
3) College is traditionally a time for transitions and new freedoms, when young people have to figure out who are they, for the first time.
4) College is traditionally a time of transition and new freedoms, helping young people to figure out for the first time, who they are.

20. In the summer of 2003, leaders of the region stopped -polio inoculations when rumours spread that the vaccine could transmit AIDS and render girls infertile.
1) when rumours spread that the vaccine could transmit AIDS and render girls infertile.
2) after spread of rumours that the vaccine could transmit AIDS, rendering girls infertile.
3) after spreading rumours that the vaccine could transmit AIDS, which would render girls infertile.
4) when rumours spread about the vaccine transmitting AIDS and render girls infertile.

21. Pfizer executives were alerted to a batch of fake Lipitor, when five patients saw their cholesterol skyrocket to a counterfeit of the glaucoma drug Xalatan.
1) when five patients saw their cholesterol skyrocket to a counterfeit of the glaucoma drug Xalatan.
2) when five patients saw their cholesterol skyrocket due to a counterfeit of the glaucoma drug Xalatan.
3) by five patients seeing that their cholesterol skyrocket due to a counterfeit of the glaucoma drug Xalatan.
4) when five patients saw their cholesterol skyrocket by a counterfeit of the glaucoma drug Xalatan.

22. Footnotes show the source of ideas, interpretations and facts that come from someone else, or sometimes they explains more fully a difficulty in the text.
1) or sometime they explains more fully a difficulty in the text.
2) or sometimes they explain more fully difficulties of the text.
3) or at other times they explain better the difficulties of the text.
4) or sometimes they explain more fully a difficulty in the text.

23. He wanted to design his house that he had just bought.
1) design his house that he had just bought.
2) design his house which he had just bought.
3) design the house, which he had just bought.
4) design the house, that had been bought by him.

24. Research suggests that the more the children use their mother tongue and English, their cognitive skills and verbal skills is greater in understanding a text.
1) their cognitive skills and verbal skills is greater in understanding a text.
2) their cognitive skills and verbal skills are greater in understanding a text.
3) the greater their cognitive and verbal skills in understanding a text.
4) the greater happens to be their cognitive and verbal skills in understanding a text.

25. One of the key attractions of this weekend-long festival, are the intimate atmosphere of its small concerts and club evenings.
1) includes the intimate atmosphere with it small concerts and club evenings.
2) is its intimate atmosphere with its small concerts and club evenings.
3) is the small concerts and club evenings.
4) are the intimate atmosphere of its small concerts and club evenings.

26. While some scientists have indeed questioned the purity of the sample, this is the only test whose results had been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
1) this is the only test whose results had
2) this is the only test whose results are
3) these are the only test whose results had
4) this is the only test whose results have

27. The watch has stopped ticking for a long time now.
1) The watch has not been ticking for a long time now.
2) For a long time now, the watch has not been ticking.
3) The watch has stopped ticking a long time ago.
4) The watch has stopped ticking for a long time now.

28. Victims of depression, if left untreated, can cause suicidal tendencies in themselves.
1) Depression, if left untreated, can cause suicidal tendencies in the victim.
2) Victims of depression can cause suicidal tendencies if they are untreated.
3) Left to themselves, victims of depression can lead to suicidal tendencies.
4) Victims of depression, if left untreated, can cause suicidal tendencies in themselves.

29. She found the people rude and unfriendly and decided to leave before things got worse.
1) She found people rude and unfriendly and so decided to leave
2) She left the place as she found the people rude and unfriendly
3) She found the people to be rude and unfriendly and so she left
4) She found the people rude and unfriendly and decided to leave

30. You will cut all official connection with us, so that your activities did not reflect at our reputation.
1) so that your activities did not reflect at our reputation.
2) so that your activities did not affect our reputation.
3) so that your activities do not reflect upon our reputation.
4) so that your activities could not effect on our reputation.

31. Although they did not get by very well with each other, they did not complain.
1) get by very well.
2) get upon very well.
3) get together very well.
4) get along very well.

32. The government which has to deal with two major demands in the current crisis — the permission for the performance of prayers and the demand for the handing over of the so-called undisputed 42 acres — have decided to deal with the performance of the prayer ceremony first.
1) have decided to deal with the performance of the prayer ceremony first.
2) has decided to deal with the performance of the prayer ceremony first.
3) has decided that the performance of the prayer ceremony be dealt with first.
4) have, first, decided to deal with the performance of the prayer ceremony.

33. Neither the students nor their teacher are inclined into volunteer work, therefore it is no surprise that the class is not represented at the Gujarat relief work meeting.
1) Neither the students nor their teacher is inclined to volunteer work
2) Neither the students nor their teacher are inclined towards volunteer work
3) Neither the students or their teacher is inclined into volunteer work
4) Neither their teacher nor her students are inclined to volunteer work

34. If airline industry insiders are to be believed, almost every international carrier, particularly those that are west bound, are now flying at over 95 percent seat load factor.
1) almost every international carriers, particularly those that are west bound, are now flying at over 95 percent seat load factor.
2) almost every international carrier, particularly the ones that are west bound, are now flying at over £95 percent seat load factor.
3) almost every international carrier, particularly those that are west bound, is now flying at over 95 percent seat load factor.
4) almost all international carriers, particularly the west bound ones, are now flying at over 95 percent seat load factor.

35. Eaten in Portugal only, the Indians viewed the potato with suspicion. for they assumed it had poisonous properties, since only the white-skinned people consumed it.
1) Indians viewed the potato with suspicion, for they
2) Indians were suspicious of the potato, and they
3) potato was viewed with suspicion by Indians, who
4) potato was suspicious to Indians, and it was

36. By monitoring the flashes of LED lights on electronic equipment and the indirect glow from monitors, scientists in the United States and the United Kingdom have discovered ways for remotely eavesdropping on computer data.
1) have discovered ways to remotely eavesdrop on computer data.
2) has discovered ways to remotely eavesdrop on computer data.
3) have discovered ways of remotely eavesdrop on computer data.
4) have discovered ways of remote-eavesdropping on computer data.

37. The scenic Praia Grande boulevard, once considered the most attractive seaside promenade in Asia, now fronts a man-made lake rather than the South China Sea.
1) is now in front of a man-made lake
2) is now the facade for a man-made lake
3) is now the entrance to a man-made lake
4) now fronts a man-made lake

38. According to the Christian calendar, the event falls on All Souls Day but, as with many of Mexico’s traditions, it has its origins in a time beyond the Spanish conquest to ancient days of ancestor worship.
1) it has for its roots the era since
2) its roots go back further than
3) it has its traditions backed by
4) it has its origins in a time beyond

39. Living alone in a mud-brick house Diudiu tends a mirrored solar collector she uses to boil water for tea and rice.
1) Living alone in a mud-brick house, Diudiu tends a mirrored solar collector she uses to boil water for tea and rice.
2) Living alone in a mud-brick house, Diudiu uses a mirrored solar collector, to boil water for tea and rice.
3) Living alone in a mud-brick house, the mirrored solar collector boils water for tea and rice that Diudiu tends.
4) A mirrored solar collector used for boiling water for tea and rice is tended by Diudiu who lives alone in a mud-brick house.

40. One time, anyone was allowed to swim in the Warner’s lake, but now the only people allowed are those who have permission.
1) but now only those who have permission are allowed.
2) but now the only people allowed to do so are those people who have permission.
3) but only now those who have permission are allowed.
4) but now only those people are allowed, those who have permission to do so.

41. Chomsky’s research revealed that children can learn to decipher meanings long before the recognition that signifiers and signifieds are arbitrarily connected and have no real relationship.
1) the recognition that
2) they can recognize that
3) they would recognize
4) they could have the recognition of

42. On your visit to the great estuary, you tend to question how they lived here at all, given to them the clouds of mosquitoes, the snakes and the sweltering summertime heat.
1) why they lived here among the clouds of mosquitoes,
2) how they lived here at all, given the clouds of mosquitoes,
3) how they lived here at all, given that there are clouds of mosquitoes,
4) how they lived here at all, given to them the clouds of mosquitoes,

43. The lion lifts his head listlessly, then eyed at us over his paws.
1) eyed us over his paws.
2) eyes over us above his paws.
3) eyes us over his paws.
4) eyed at us over his paws.

44. Unlike a typical house loan, which requires a fifteen to twenty percent down payment, the lease-loan buyer is not required to make an initial deposit on the new property.
1) with lease-loan buying there is no requirement of
2) lease-loan buyers are not required to make
3) for the lease-loan buyer there is no requirement of
4) a lease-loan does not require the buyer to make

45. In two recent papers, delving deep to find the secrets of Botswana’s success and Africa’s failure, are Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT.
1) delving deep to find the secrets of Botswana’s success and Africa’s failure, are Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT.
2) that delve deep to find the secret of Botswana’s success and Africa’s failure, there are Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT.
3) Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT, delve deep to find the secrets of Botswana’s success and failure of Africa.
4) Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT, delve deep to find the secret of Botswana’s success and Africa’s failure.