Sentence Improvement for SBI Clerk Prelims: 2nd June 2018 (with Video Solution)

Today is the Day 42 of the SBI Clerk 60 Days Study Plan. This section can be easy as pie if your basics are clear. Sometimes, even those who can communicate very well in English, fail to perform to the best of their ability in the banking exams. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz on Sentence Improvement being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions.
Direction (1-15): Which of the following phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.

Q1. The issue is asked to be assigned to the next government as the Prime Minister will leave office on May 31 after completion of the tenure.
(a) is demanded to be jumped
(b) is hoped to be passed away
(c) is hoping to be thrown
(d) is expected to be referred
(e) No correction required

Q2. The health condition of two patients in the city whose throat swab samples were sent to two laboratories on Tuesday to know whether they are matched with Nipah virus is improving.
(a) whether they are healthy
(b) whether they are infected
(c) whether they are positive
(d) whether they are negative
(e) No correction required

Q3. The samples were diagnosed after doctors observed symptoms and not ready to take any chances.
(a) were kept for future
(b) were sent for autopsy
(c) were sent for identification
(d) were sent for analysis
(e) No correction required

Q4. Meanwhile, the city witnessed both celebrations over the formation of the new coalition government and protests against it.
(a) never realized the contradictions
(b) made evidence for both celebrations
(c) saw the contrary reactions
(d) demanded a justice
(e) No correction required

Q5. Incorporation of Hindi and English as additional medium of languages would degrade the level of education in madrasas, the government said.
(a) would never improve the level of
(b) would make it complex the system
(c) would help in providing quality
(d) would make a quality check on
(e) No correction required

Q6. People who love to eat but hate eating alone have a delicious new option: plates and cutlery made of jackfruit.
(a) but love doing dishes
(b) but never did cooking
(c) but hate doing work out
(d) but hate doing the dishes
(e) No correction required

Q7. The investigation is on and we do not know what set off the explosives. We have noted that the weather changed in the area and there was a lightening strike. We also know that the workers did not set it off.
(a) we can’t imagine what happened with
(b) we do not know how to light
(c) we are bewildered to know that who
(d) we are confused what set it out
(e) No correction required

Q8. Fifteen injured persons, of whom two are said to be critical, were rushed to Hyderabad for treatment. The police received a complaint from the representatives of workers and have undergone so far for CrPC 124.
(a) have started verification
(b) have begun investigation
(c) have commenced enquiry
(d) have lodged inquiry
(e) No correction required

Q9. But there are very few studies on the palm since it is very difficult to access the rocky cliffs where they grow. There have been no surveys to imagine its present status either.
(a) to calculate its situation of now
(b) to estimate its ongoing position
(c) to assess its current status
(d)to calculate its present worth
(e) No correction required

Q10. Across more than 30 books, he produced the best and worst of America, looking things in the eye and telling it like it was, writing about flawed beings, their dreams and nightmares, sexual and other predicaments.
(a) he directed
(b) he incorporated
(c) he designed
(d) he chronicled
(e) No correction required

Q11. If granting universal adult suffrage at one stroke was a leap of faith, then at other places, driven by concerns about maintaining national integrity and preventing disintegration in the teeth of the trauma of Partition, the framers pulled up short.
(a) was a denial of truth
(b) was a breach of trust
(c) was a violation of truth
(d) was a compliance of trust
(e) No correction required

Q12. This is particularly troubling as public expenditure on education in India favours higher education far more than elsewhere in the world when schooling is however considered by comparison.
(a) is sometimes taken into account
(b) is hardly neglected
(c) is never ignored
(d) is severely neglected
(e) No correction required

Q13. The DNA can be captured, sequenced and then used to invent that creature by comparing the sequence obtained to large databases of known genetic sequences from hundreds of thousands of different organisms.
(a) used to overlook
(b) used to consider
(c) used to measure
(d) used to identify
(e) No correction required

Q14. It wasn’t a line of profession to be chosen, but a means for living. And at that point in time all that mattered was survival.
(a) a trade of his desire
(b) a profession of his choice
(c) a service of his wants
(d) a placement of his choice
(e) No correction required

Q15.  It was here a strike of luck in discovery changed the course of his life. He met a man from the Grindlays Bank asking him whether he was an alumnus of the prestigious Imperial Service College.
(a) here a misfortunate action that led to good
(b) here an invention suddenly occurred
(c) here an unfortunate accident that made a discovery
(d) here a fortune stroke of serendipity
(e) No correction required