Sentence Improvement
A part of the sentence is given in [brackets]. Choose the option that makes the sentence grammatically correct and natural. Choose "No improvement" only if the bracketed part is already correct.
How to solve
- Read the full sentence; find the subject, verb and time words.
- Check the bracketed part with the error-spotting checklist (agreement, tense, verb form, preposition, comparison, conjunction pair, redundancy).
- Put each option back into the sentence and read it again.
- Reject options that fix one error but add another.
Most common fixes
- since five years → for five years; has gone … last week → went.
- prefer … than → prefer … to; senior than → senior to.
- No sooner … when → than; Hardly … than → when; Although … but → drop but; Both … as well as → and.
- The reason … is because → is that.
- insisted to go → insisted on going; looking forward to meet → to meeting; used to get up → used to getting up.
- had better to consult → had better consult; made me to wait → made me wait; did not came → did not come.
- too tired that → so tired that; the best of the two → the better; more stronger → stronger; less students → fewer students.
- Compare like with like: than that of Delhi.
- discussed about / reached at → discussed / reached.
- Dangling participle → give it a subject: While he was walking…, a snake bit him.