MCQ: Sentence Correction- 2 - SSC CGL MCQ

The highlighted part is erroneous. Firstly, singular subject ‘it’ should take singular verb ‘receives’. Also, noun ‘freedoms’ should be qualified by adjective ‘certain’ (sure or definite) and not noun ‘certainty’.
Only B contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
The understanding implicit between journalism and society is that it receives certain freedoms in exchange for responsibility.
Hence, the correct answer is option B. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. With plural subject ‘farmers’, we should use plural verb ‘rely’. Also, the correct phrasal verb is ‘rely on’ (to depend on something or someone) and not ‘rely upon’.
Lastly, the correct phrase should be ‘rain-fed agriculture’ and not ‘raining- fed agriculture’.
Only C contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
Most Indian farmers rely on rain-fed agriculture, with about half of all farmed land in India — dependent on downpours.
Hence, the correct answer is option C. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. As per the context, ‘suit’ or ‘suite’ is incorrect and should be replaced with ‘shoot’.
Shoot: damage or remove (something) with a bullet or missile.
Suit: be convenient for or acceptable to.
Suite: a set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose.
Also, the use of noun ‘density’ is incorrect as we need an adjective ‘dense’ to qualify noun ‘forest’.
Only B contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
LIDAR mapping technology uses planes to shoot pulses of light into dense forest canopies, allowing researchers to peal away vegetation and reveal ancient structures.
Hence, the correct answer is option B. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. The idea is to impose a restriction on worthless products, thus ‘effective’ or ‘efficient’ will provide a contradictory meaning, and therefore these are incorrect. ‘Deceptive’ (false and misleading) being a negative adjective will be a better replacement. Also, after preposition ‘to’ first form of verb ‘curtail’ (reduce in extent or quantity) should be used.
Only A contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
The department recently issued guidelines to curtail fake and deceptive product and service reviews on e-commerce websites.
Hence, the correct answer is option A. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. The correct phrasal verb as per the context is ‘lay off’.
Lay off: discharge a worker temporarily or permanently because of economic conditions or shortage of work.
Also, the correct preposition to mention approximation is ‘around’ and not ‘round’.
Only D contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
An uncertain macroeconomic environment is making the renowned e-commerce giant review its global workforce, as it plans to lay off around ten thousand employees in corporate and technology roles.
Hence, the correct answer is option D. 

The sentence implies that the Irish economy has experienced a period of great prosperity or rapid economic growth with the influx of billions of dollars in investment from multinationals. The noun ‘economy’ is singular in nature so the verb used with it should be ‘has’ instead of ‘have’. This makes the underlined part incorrect. For similar reasons fragment III is also incorrect. Both I and II bring out meaningfully coherent and grammatically correct sentences.

Hence, option D is the correct answer.

The sentence implies that the Irish government has resisted European Union’s attempts to harmonise its tax rules and is not likely to accept a higher minimum rate without a fight. The underline phrase is incorrect. The adjective ‘unlike’ means ‘dissimilar or different from each other’ which makes no sense. It should have been the adjective ‘unlikely’ which means ‘not likely to happen, be done, or be true; improbable’. Among the alternatives, all make sense when replaced in the sentence and make meaningful and coherent sentences.

Hence, option B is the correct answer.

The highlighted part is erroneous. The use of ‘evade’ is contextually and grammatically incorrect. The correct word is ‘invaded’ which should be in V2 form as historical events are always stated in simple past tense.
Evade: avoid dealing with or accepting.
Invade: enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it.
Only A contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
With persistent snowfall blanketing the capital, the analysts predicted that wintry weather could have an increasing impact on the direction of the conflict that has raged since Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
Hence, the correct answer is option A. 

The highlighted part is erroneous. The use of ‘nation media’ is incorrect and should be replaced with ‘national media’. Also, the use of indefinite article ‘a’ is incorrect and should be replaced with definite article ‘the’.
Only D contains all these improvements.
Correct Sentence:
Unlike cereals, edible oils, and vegetables, where inflation is regularly reported, falling prices of Rabi crops like Chana seldom make it to the national media.
Hence, the correct answer is option D. 

The phrase given in underlined is erroneous.
Reasons:
With the names of oceans, definite article ‘the’ is used. Thus. ‘the Artic’ and ‘the Antarctic’ will be used.
Also, preposition ‘to’ should be followed by first form of verb ‘gather’ in order to frame an infinitive (to + v1).
Correct Sentence:
An aeroplane flew a laser altimeter over the Arctic and the Antarctic to gather some limited data-sets that could eventually be used to tie the two IceSat missions together.
Hence, option A is the correct answer. 

The phrase given in underlined is erroneous.
Reasons:
According to the rule of parallelism, ‘turned’ should be used as previously ‘harvested’ was used.
Also, the correct phrasal verb to be used should be ‘turned into’ and not ‘turned in’.
Turn into: to change or develop into something different
Ex: Our holiday turned into a nightmare.
Correct Sentence:
The Cambridge Analytica scandal threw light on how the Facebook data of millions was harvested and turned into a messaging tool.
Hence, option C is the correct answer. 

The phrase given in underline is erroneous.
Reasons:
When in any sentence the time of action is given, then it should be expressed in ‘simple past tense’ (v2) and not ‘present perfect tense’ (has/have +v3).
Ex: In 1992, he went to America.
Thus, ‘demonstrated’ should be used.
Also, the correct word to be used should be ‘elderly’ and not ‘elder’.
Elderly: old or ageing.
Correct Sentence:
In 2014, researchers in California demonstrated that elderly subjects who watched a funny video experienced significant improvements in their ability to learn and retain new information. 

The underline part of the sentence has grammatical error based on subject-verb agreement. The subject of the sentence is plural (‘homes’) so the following verb should also be plural. Therefore, ‘has’ cannot be used here. It should be replaced with ‘having’ which is a gerund and is used to show possession of something. ‘Having’ should always be followed by noun phrase (‘their own courtyards’).
Correct sentence:
The 1914-18 Leonard Munn’s maps of Hyderabad show hundreds of homes having their own courtyards with fountains marked with the legend of F.
Hence, the correct answer is option B. 

The underline part of the sentence uses incorrect idiomatic expression ‘hand to mouth existing’. The correct phrase is ‘hand to mouth existence’ which means ‘to hardly have any resources to make a livelihood’.

Correct sentence:

Oxfam is trying to help these families escape from their hand to mouth existence.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

A breath of fresh air (idiom): something or someone new and different that is pleasant or refreshing.
In this sentence, it is used to describe the positive impact the new employee has had on the company.
Hence, the correct answer is option C.