Sentence improvement tasks appear in various competitive examinations such as bank PO\u00a0and UPSC tests.<\/p>\n
Which of the phrases (a), (b) or (c) should replace the word\/phrase in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (d) as your answer.<\/p>\n
1. The little children were frightened by<\/strong> the old beggar.<\/p>\n a) frightened of 2. A gentle breeze was blown<\/strong> across the meadow.<\/p>\n a) was blowing 3. The monk burnt him.<\/strong><\/p>\n a) Burnt himself 4. She had a child holding on to each hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n a) every hand 5. We must remember where to turn of<\/strong> the main road.<\/p>\n a) turn off 6. Could you tell me where can I<\/strong> find a good hotel?<\/p>\n a) where I can 7. We endured<\/strong> his tyranny for three years now.<\/p>\n a) have endured 8. She was made to<\/strong> wait for over two years.<\/p>\n a) has made to 9. It has been raining<\/strong> during the whole of last week.<\/p>\n a) rained 10. He would have agreed, if you were<\/strong> more courteous.<\/p>\n a) had been 11. The thing that I don\u2019t understand is why they were waiting<\/strong> so long without lodging a complaint.<\/p>\n a) waited 12. Should it prove to be true, I should<\/strong> resign from the committee.<\/p>\n a) shall 13. If he drank less, he wouldn\u2019t have developed<\/strong> heart trouble.<\/p>\n a) wouldn\u2019t develop 14. Newton saw the apple to fall<\/strong> to the ground.<\/p>\n a) fall 15. He is enough rich<\/strong> to pay for his expenses.<\/p>\n a) rich enough 16. If they were knowing<\/strong> about the riots, they would not have decided to picnic there.<\/p>\n a) had known 17. India has made rapid progress since<\/strong> the dawn of independence.<\/p>\n a) for 18. His behaviour was very impudent<\/strong> for me to tolerate.<\/p>\n a) too impudent 19. He has become too much of a nuisance to put with.<\/strong><\/p>\n a) put up with 20. The policeman didn\u2019t run enough fast<\/strong> to catch the thief.<\/p>\n a) fast enough 21. Scarcely did the game started<\/strong> when the rain came pouring down.<\/p>\n a) had the game 22. The little monkey jumped on to his mother\u2019s back as she swing<\/strong> through the trees.<\/p>\n a) Swung 23. No sooner had she read the telegram than she fall down<\/strong> fainting.<\/p>\n a) fell down 24. I hear that one of your neighbours have filed<\/strong> a suit against you.<\/p>\n a) has filed 25. Many high school students are not even understanding<\/strong> the basics of physics and chemistry.<\/p>\n a) don\u2019t even understand Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. frightened of Sentence improvement tasks appear in various competitive examinations such as bank PO\u00a0and UPSC tests. Which of the phrases (a), (b) or (c) should replace the word\/phrase in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[564],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bank-po-english","tag-sentence-improvement-bank-po"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nb) frightened at
\nc) frightened after
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) has blown
\nc) has been blown
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) Burnt he
\nc) Burnt itself
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) all hand
\nc) both hand
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) turn out
\nc) turn in
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) where could I
\nc) where should I
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) had endured
\nc) have been endured
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) had made to
\nc) would make to
\nd) no improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) was raining
\nc) is raining
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) have been
\nc) are
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) were to wait
\nc) are to wait
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) were to
\nc) had to
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) couldn\u2019t have developed
\nc) shouldn\u2019t have developed
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) fell
\nc) fallen
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) too rich
\nc) very rich
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) knew
\nc) did know
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) from
\nc) before
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) enough impudent
\nc) so impudent
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) put down with
\nc) put off with
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) too fast
\nc) so fast
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) the game had
\nc) were the game
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) Was swinging
\nc) Had swung
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) had fallen down
\nc) has fallen down
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\nb) filed
\nc) was filed
\nd) did filed<\/p>\n
\nb) was not even understand
\nc) have not even understood
\nd) No improvement<\/p>\n
\n2. was blowing
\n3. Burnt himself
\n4. No improvement
\n5. turn off
\n6. where I can
\n7. have endured
\n8. no improvement
\n9. rained
\n10. had been
\n11. waited
\n12. shall
\n13. wouldn\u2019t develop
\n14. fall
\n15. rich enough
\n16. had known
\n17. No improvement
\n18. too impudent
\n19. put up with
\n20. fast enough
\n21. had the game
\n22. swung
\n23. fell down
\n24. has filed
\n25. don\u2019t even understand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"