Sentence Correction Exercises No. 19 & 20 ...with answers& explanations

Exercise No. 19.

Find out error in the following sentences if any and mark Sr. no. of the relative part. In case of no error mark Sr no.5.

Ignore punctuation errors.

A. 1.After being disrupted 2.twice during the day 3. the speaker finally at 4 p.m. adjourned Lok Sabha 4.for the remaining part of the day.

B.1. No sooner 2.did the child saw 3.its mother than4. it started weeping.

C. 1.You would have passed 2.the examination 3.if you worked 4.a little harder.

D. 1. Down the building fell 2. like a pack of cards 3. and no body standing near it could  save it.

E.1. I aver that 2. John is intelligent enough 3.to qualify this examination 4. but he did not avail the opportunity.

Answers Exercise No. 19

A.3. Lok sabha was adjourned finally at 4 p.m. by the speaker.

Part 1 is in passive voice so part 3 too should be in passive voice.

B.2. did the child ‘see’ in place of ‘saw’.

C. 3. If you had worked…..

D. 1.Down fell the building……

E. 4. But he did not avail himself of  the opportunity.

Exercise No. 20.

Find out error in the following sentences if any and mark Sr. no. of the relative part. In case of no error mark Sr no.5.

Ignore punctuation errors.

A. 1.All the efforts 2.by the government 3.to bring stability in the value of rupee 4. has failed.

B. 1.I asked my brother 2. Whether3. he has received any message4. from his son that  day.

C.1. Good girls 2.like you and she 3. cannot afford 4.to be frivolous.

D. 1.A little 2.did we know 3.that he would 4.play false to us.

E. 1.We are 2. much pleased 3. to meet 4.you today.

Answers Exercise No. 20

A. 4. ‘have’ in place of ‘has’. All the efforts……have…..

B. 3. He had… in place of he has.

C. 2. Like you and her…..

D. 1. Little did I know……  Little means nothing and a little means something. Here the meaning is ‘we knew nothing…

E. 2. 'Very pleased' in place of' 'much pleased'.