MCQ: Sentence Correction- 1 - SSC CGL MCQ

The highlighted part is erroneous. The use of noun ‘resilience’ (the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape) is incorrect grammatically. It should be replaced with adjective ‘resilient’.
The use of ‘idol’ is incorrect contextually and should be replaced with ‘ideal’. ‘Idol’ means ‘a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered’ while ‘ideal’ refers to ‘most suitable’.
Ex: The Hollywood film idols of the 1940s were glamorous figures, adored by millions.
Ex: The swimming pool is ideal for a quick dip.
The use of indefinite article ‘a’ is incorrect before noun ‘ideal’ because it starts with vowel sound. Thus, ‘an’ should be used.
Thus, only D contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
Titanium being strong, light weight and resilient is an ideal base for fashioning artificial limbs.
Hence, the correct answer is option D. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. The use of noun phrase ‘philosophy interludes’ is incorrect and should be replaced with ‘philosophical interludes’. Also for singular subject ‘book’, singular possessive adjective ‘its’ should be used in place of plural adjective ‘their’.
Only A contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
This book is not a page-turner as it does not follow a strict narrative style and contains several philosophical interludes by its characters.
Hence, the correct answer is option A. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. With plural subjects ‘overall health and quality of life’, plural verb ‘are’ should be used. Also, the segment is in passive voice, thus third form of verb ‘affected’ should be used. In order to modify it, adverb ‘negatively’ will be apt. thus, ‘negative’ and ‘affect’ are incorrect.
Only D contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
B12 is scarce in the diet, and without adequate B12 in the body, overall health and quality of life are negatively affected.
Hence, the correct answer is option D. 

The sentence tries to imply that the plight of the migrant workers makes the statement maker feel sad for them. The underlined part in the sentence is incorrect as the correct phrase is ‘tug at the heart’. So, there is a prepositional error in it. If you say that someone or something tugs at your heartstrings, you mean that they cause you to feel strong emotions, usually sadness or pity. Among the fragments only III is correct; the other fragments make no sense in the given context of the sentence. Hence, both I and II can be negated.
Hence, option B is the correct answer. 

The sentence implies that, elephants by expanding their nostrils can make space in their trunks and can create suction to draw up to nine litres of water. The phrasal verb ‘suck in’ means 'to involve someone in something without their choice’. This makes no sense in this case. So, it needs to be replaced. Fragment II is incorrect as ‘bow and scrape’ means 'to behave in an obsequious way to someone in authority’. Fragment III is also incorrect as ‘play up’ means 'to emphasize or exaggerate the extent or importance of something’. Only fragment I makes sense in the given context. In this case ‘suck up’ means ‘to draw (water) into the mouth by movements of the trunk that create suction’.

Hence, option A is the correct answer. 

The sentence talks about a search party which was finding some missing climbers in a hill. The two parts of the sentence are joined by ‘but’ which is used to introduce a clause that is contradictory to the one stated before. So, it is definite that the search party was unable to find the climbers. As the underline phrase is unable to introduce this contradiction, so, it is rejected. Option II is grammatically incorrect; hence, it is rejected as well. Among the options, both I and III bring out meaningfully coherent and grammatically correct sentences.

Hence, option D is the correct answer. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. The correct phrase to be used should be ‘lung function’ and this should take singular verb ‘deteriorates’, as per the rule of parallelism, since the sentence contains verbs like ‘progresses’, ‘starts’ etc.
Deteriorate: to make worse.
Only C contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
As the disease progresses, lung function deteriorates and blood oxygen saturation starts to fall.
Hence, the correct answer is option C. 

The highlighted part of the sentence has grammatical error based on parallelism. The second part of the sentence is in simple past tense (wanted). So, the first part should not be in simple present tense. Hence, the first part of the sentence should also be in past tense. This makes ‘appreciated the more structured’ the correct choice for the underlined part of the sentence.
Correct sentence:
While some appreciated the more structured approach of the questionnaire, most wanted more space and less detail.
Hence, the correct answer is option C. 

The preposition 'to' is followed by base form of the verb. Thus, 'protect' should be used in place of 'protected'. Besides as the sentence refers to singular pronoun ‘he’ so the use of possessive adjective ‘their’ is incorrect. Thus, ‘protect his own’ is the most appropriate choice for the highlighted part of the sentence.
Correct sentence:
After leaving office, he seems to have been caught up in a rear-guard action to protect his own reputation in a country he has spent years visiting.
Hence, the correct answer is option D. 

The sentence is erroneous as the underline part uses plural verb ‘do’ which does not agree with  the singular noun phrase ‘a state government’. As the sentence talks about a rather general statement about state and central affairs so, in this case the correct phrase would be ‘cannot take action’.
Correct sentence:
A State government cannot take action in matters initiated by the Centre against bureaucrats on Central deputation.
Hence, the correct answer is option D. 

The phrase given in underline is erroneous.
Reasons:
According to the rule of parallelism, ‘appreciating’ should be used as ‘creating’ is used already.
Also, ‘jokes’ which is a plural noun should take a plural verb ‘require’ and not ‘requires’.
Correct Sentence:
Creating and appreciating jokes both require us to make connections between many discrete pieces of information.
Hence, option D is the correct answer. 

The phrase given in underline is erroneous.
Reasons:
The correct phrase to be used with definite article ‘the’ should be ‘at the top and bottom’. There should be no ‘the’ before ‘bottom’.
Also, the correct phrase that should be used is ‘of the world’.
Correct Sentence:
There is going to be a gap of several years in our ability to measure the thickness of ice at the top and bottom of the world, scientists are warning.
Hence, option B is the correct answer. 

To cut corners (idiom): to take shortcuts or save money by reducing quality or standards.
In this sentence, it is used to describe the restaurant's poor customer service. Option (C) "Saving money by providing poor service" is a suitable replacement for the phrase "cutting corners" without changing the meaning of the sentence.
Hence, the correct answer is option C. 

The given sentence is a optative sentence. The sentence which expresses a prayer, keen wish, curse etc. is called an optative sentence. This kind of sentence generally starts with ‘may’ or ‘wish’. Sometimes, ‘may’ remains hidden. In a wish sentence, ‘wish + past continuous’ is used to express that we want to do a different action in the present (or future). I wish I were lying on a beach now. (I’m sitting in the office). This sentence implies that he wished he had a better idea about what he was doing then. Among the options only II brings out meaningfully coherent and grammatically correct sentence.

Hence, option B is the correct answer. 

Here, plural verb 'are' is correctly used for the plural noun 'marks'. Also, as the sentence compares the performance of rural students with the urban students; so, comparative degree of adjective ‘lower’ must be used. Among the options, only III brings out meaningfully coherent and grammatically correct sentence.

Hence, option B is the correct answer.