Sentence Correction Set - 5

Directions (1-5): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) or (d) given below each sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.

1. A freezing morning accompanied by a dense cover of fog set the toning for the coming weekend.

(a) keeping tone
(b) started the toning
(c) kept the tone
(d) set the tone
(e) No correction required

2. The jail is in the news again with the finding of a pistol and some bullets.

(a) to finding
(b) with find
(c) finding
(d) one found
(e) No correction required

3. The space-crunched city throws up several stories of struggle that schools have had put up with to win playground for their students.

(a) have had to put up to 
(b) had put up on
(c) have had to put up with
(d) had to put up to 
(e) No correction required

4. Emotions rang high as both families were taken to the police station last night.

(a) Emotions went higher
(b) Emotion become high
(c) Emotionally high
(d) Emotions ran high
(e) No correction required

5. Work at all the court complexes was paralysed as lawyers went on a day-long strike as a mark of protest.

(a) for a one day strike 
(b) for a strike
(c) on a day’s long strike
(d) on a day-long striking 
(e) No correction required

6. Since the deadline has been changed from next week to this thursday you should give this work priority.

1)be given this work priority
2)not give priority this work
3)prioritized this work
4)priority this work
5)No correction required

7.The grim job market has taken its toll on students, many of those had hoped for a much better future.

1)Much of whom
2)Many of whom
3)Several of those
4)Many of which
5)No correction required

8.The ban was imposed by the state’s commercial taxes department last Friday after protests by a certain community, which had threat to burn cinema halls screening the controversial movie.

1)Had threats of burning
2)Had threated to burn
3)Had threatened to burn
4)Had threatened to burning
5)No correction required

9.Many students waits anxiously at the college gate to know their results.

1)Student waited anxiously
2)students waiting anxiously
3)students waited anxiously
4)students waited anxious
5)No correction required

10.The salaries and the perks of the employees in this institution are not in according with the rest of the industry.

1)are not in accordance
2)is not in accordance
3)are not according
4)is not on accordance
5)No correction required


ANSWERS :

1. d
2. e
3. d
4. d
5. e
6. 5
7. 2
8. 3
9. 3
10.1

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