IMPROVEMENT OF SENTENCES
818. This news is too good to be true.   tence/part of the sentence, which may         835. You must endure what you can-
      (1) cannot be true                 improve the sentence. Choose the cor-               not cure.
      (2) so good that it should be true rect alternative. In case no improve-              (1) accept (2) suffer
      (3) No improvement                 ment is needed, your answer is No im-              (3) prevail (4) No Improvement
      (4) so good that it cannot be true provement.                                    836. He do es not laugh, nor he
819. The notorious criminal went to             (SSC CGL Tier-I Exam, 16.08.2015             smiles.
      the police to go to prison.                       (Ist Sitting) TF No. 3196279)        (1) nor he does smile
      (1) submitted to the police         827. If I will get an opportunity, I shall         (2) neither he does smile
      (2) surrendered himself before           attend the seminar.                           (3) nor does he smile
          the police                           (1) get                                       (4) No Improvement
      (3) No improvement                       (2) got                                      Directions (837–846) : In the fol-
      (4) gave himself up for the police       (3) No Improvement                     lowing questions, a sentence/ part of
                                               (4) shall get                          the sentence is printed in bold. Below
 820. If he has time he will telephone.                                               are given alternatives to the bold sen-
      (1) could    (2) might              828. Both the teams played the game
                                                                                      tence/part of the sentence which may
      (3) would (4) No improvement             fairly.                                improve the sentence. Choose the cor-
821. He met European lady at the con-          (1) No Improvement                     rect alternative. In case no improve-
      ference who works for an NGO.            (2) played a fair game                 ment is needed, your answer is No
      (1) European lady who works for          (3) played fairly the game             Improvement.
          an NGO at the conference             (4) fairly played the game                     (SSC CGL Tier-I Exam, 16.08.2015
                                                                                                   (IInd Sitting) TF No. 2176783)
      (2) No improvement                  829. She could not help but laugh.
      (3) a European lady who works            (1) but laughing                       837. I was struck by his singular ap-
          for an NGO, at the conference                                                     pearance.
                                               (2) laughter
      (4) an European lady at the con-                                                      (1) struck by his single appear-
                                               (3) No Improvement
          ference who works for an                                                              ance
                                               (4) laughing
          NGO                                                                               (2) struck by how he singularly
                                          830. We met yesterday, haven’t we ?                   appears
822. I did not see you for a long time.        (1) didn’t we ?                              (3) No Improvement
      (1) have not seen                        (2) No Improvement                           (4) had stricken his single ap-
      (2) saw                                  (3) hadn’t we ?                                  pearance
      (3) No improvement
                                               (4) isn’t it ?                         838. The blue whale was thriving in
      (4) have not been seeing                                                              all of the world’s oceans until
                                          831. I took my mother some grapes
823. The glass figurine that was be-           when she was in hospital.                    the turn of the century, at which
      ing shown in the store window                                                         time they became hunted to the
                                               (1) I took for my mother some
      appealed to me.                                                                       point of extinction.
                                                    grapes.
      (1) No improvement                                                                    (1) The blue whale was thriving
                                               (2) I brought my mother some
      (2) that was on display                                                                   in all of the world’s oceans up
                                                    grapes
      (3) that was exhibited                                                                    until the turn of the century
                                               (3) I took some grapes for my
      (4) that was advertised                                                               (2) At the turn of the century,
                                                    mother                                      blue whales were thriving in
824. He is somehow tall for his age.
                                               (4) No Improvement                               all of the world’s oceans.
      (1) No improvement
                                          832. The others shook their heads                 (3) Blue whales were thriving in
      (2) rather                               and made vague noises of ap-                     all of the world’s oceans until
      (3) many                                 proval.                                          the turn of the century
      (4) much                                                                              (4) No Improvement
                                               (1) hung
825. The practice of starving the chil-                                                839. We have been retracing our steps
                                               (2) turned around
      dren in order to cure diarrhoea                                                       to the log cabin ten minutes ago.
      also aggravates the situation.           (3) No Improvement
                                                                                            (1) will be retracing
      (1) starving child                       (4) nodded                                   (2) have to retrace
      (2) No improvement                  833. She insisted on she was inno-                (3) had to retrace
      (3) starve children                      cent.                                        (4) No Improvement
      (4) starving children                    (1) insisted on that                   840. I hope you will be able to steer
826. She said that she was glad to be          (2) No Improvement                           ahead of the anti-social elements.
      here that evening.                       (3) insisted that                            (1) steer clear
      (1) to ome here                                                                       (2) steer free
                                               (4) insisted with
                                                                                            (3) steer out
      (2) to be there                     834. The world is being faced with a              (4) No Improvement
      (3) to have been here                    crisis                                 841. He bowed down at the altar.
      (4) No improvement                       (1) confronted                               (1) next to the altar
      Directions (827-836) : In the fol-       (2) in front of                              (2) No Improvement
lowing questions, a sentence/ part of
                                               (3) No Improvement                           (3) before the altar
the sentence is printed in bold. Below
                                               (4) facing                                   (4) infront of the altar
are given alternatives to the bold sen-
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