Instructions: In questions given below, a part of the sentence is italicised and underlined. Below are given alternatives to the italicised part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, option 'D' is the answer.
Statement Improvement Question Paper -1
1) The record for the biggest tiger hunt has not been met since 1911 when Lord Hardinge. then Viceroy of India, shot a tiger than measured 11 feet and 6 inches.
a) improved
b) broken
c) bettered
d) No improvement
b) broken
c) bettered
d) No improvement
2) Will you kindly open the knot?
a) untie
b) loose
c) break
d) No improvement
b) loose
c) break
d) No improvement
3) He sent a word to me that he would be coming late.
a) sent word
b) sent words
c) had sent a word
d) No improvement
b) sent words
c) had sent a word
d) No improvement
4) His powerful desire brought about his downfall.
a) His fatal desire
b) His desire for power
c) His intense desire
d) No improvement
b) His desire for power
c) His intense desire
d) No improvement
5) If the room had been brighter, I would have been able to read for a while before bed time.
a) If the room are brighter
b) If the room was brighter
c) Had the room been brighter
d) No improvement
b) If the room was brighter
c) Had the room been brighter
d) No improvement
6) When it was feared that the serfs might go too far and gain their freedom from serfdom, the protestant leaders joined the princes at crushing them.
a) without crushing
b) in crushing
c) into crushing
d) No improvement
b) in crushing
c) into crushing
d) No improvement
7) The workers are hell bent at getting what is due to them.
a) hell bent for getting
b) hell bent on getting
c) hell bent upon getting
d) No improvement
b) hell bent on getting
c) hell bent upon getting
d) No improvement
8) John had told me that he hasn't done it yet.
a) was telling
b) tells
c) told
d) No improvement
b) tells
c) told
d) No improvement
9) During his long discourse, he did not touch that point.
a) touch of
b) touch on
c) touch upon
d) No improvement
b) touch on
c) touch upon
d) No improvement
10) He could not look anything in the dark room.
a) see through
b) see
c) look at
d) No improvement
b) see
c) look at
d) No improvement
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