Sentence Correction MCQ Set 21
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MCQ Set: 21
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Question No: 105
The National Library has recently acquired a manuscript by Jenkins that should provide answers to the much-disputed question of the extent to which this author’s work had been altered by her editors in the years before she died.
- the extent to which this author’s work had been altered by her editors in the years before she died
- the extent this author’s editors altered her work in the years before she died
- how much the work of this author had been altered in the years before her death by her editors
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the extent her editors altered this author’s work in the years before her death
- the extent to which this author’s work was altered by her editors in the years before she died
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Option(A) is correct
The past perfect tense (in this case, ‘had altered’ or ‘had been altered’) is used for an event that precedes another event in the past (in this case, ‘died’), and therefore A is better than E.
The other problem to consider is word order. The altering was or was not done in the years before her death, whereas answers B and D imply that the work was in those years, not the alterations.
Answer C incorrectly puts ‘by her editors’ after the word ‘death’.
Question No: 101
Early 16th Century moralist philosophers, particularly in France and England, regarded Machiavelli’s The Prince as a collection of cynical precepts for tyrants, and not until the 17th Century was the view of Machiavelli as a teacher of evil questioned by philosophers.
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Early 16th Century moralist philosophers, particularly in France and England, regarded Machiavelli’s The Prince as a collection of cynical precepts for tyrants, and not until the 17th Century was the view of Machiavelli as a teacher of evil questioned by philosophers.
- Machiavelli’s The Prince was regarded as a collection of cynical precepts for tyrants by early 16th Century moralist philosophers, particularly in France and England, and not until the 17th Century did philosophers question the view of him as a teacher of evil.
- Early 16th Century moralist philosophers, in France and England particularly, considered Machiavelli’s The Prince as a collection of cynical precepts for tyrants, and not until the 17th Century was the view of Machiavelli as a teacher of evil questioned by philosophers.
- Early 16th Century moralist philosophers, particularly in France and England, regarded Machiavelli’s The Prince to be a collection of cynical precepts for tyrants, and not until the 17th Century philosophers was the view of Machiavelli as a teacher of evil questioned.
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Machiavelli’s The Prince was regarded as a collection of cynical precepts for tyrants by early 16th Century moralist philosophers, particularly in France and England, and not until the 17th Century was the view of him as a teacher of evil questioned.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Option(A) is correct
Note the idioms ‘regarded as something’ and ‘consider something’. In other words we don’t put ‘to be’ after regard or consider, and neither do we put ‘as’ after consider. This information helps us to eliminate C and D.
Next we turn our attention to word order. The order in B and E suggests that the ‘precepts’ were by the moralist philosophers. And so we are left with A. Also note that the use of ‘him’ in B and E is inappropriate as we haven’t previously mentioned Machiavelli (Machiavelli’s The Prince is not the same as Machiavelli!)
Note that the correct answer includes the passive voice ‘was questioned by’, and so, although the active voice is usually better than the passive, there are some cases where passives are found in correct answers.
Question No: 102
Moule’s review served as a welcome encouragement to the author: Hardy set to work with renewed vigour and finished the serial ahead of time.
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served as a welcome encouragement to the author: Hardy
- served a welcome encouragement to Hardy, and the author
- was welcome as an encouragement to Hardy, the author
- was a welcome encouragement to the author, Hardy
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served as a welcome encouragement to the author, Hardy
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Option(A) is correct
The sentence is fine as it is. Options C, D and E are all incorrect because they contain the ‘comma splice’ error – you cannot join two complete sentences with only a comma, you need a conjunction or a colon or semicolon.
The expression ‘served a welcome’ is unidiomatic; ‘served as’ is correct in this case.
Question No: 103
If the engineering feats of that early decade remains impressive – boring a mile-long tunnel through a solid mountain, and turning the eastward flow of two rivers westward – the arduous conditions in which the engineers worked are no less remarkable.
- If the engineering feats of that early decade remains impressive – boring
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If the engineering feats of that early decade remains impressive – such as the boring of
- Although the engineering feats of that early decade remains impressive – boring
- If the feats of engineering in that early decade remains impressive – boring
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If the engineering feats of that early decade remain impressive – boring
Answer and Explanation
Answer: E
Explanation
Option(E) is correct
Here we have a simple matter of verb subject agreement: with the subject ‘feats’ we need a plural verb, and so ‘remain’ will be correct and the only possible answer is E.
Question No: 104
In his best-selling book The Omnivore's Dilemma, which social critics see as yet another piece of evidence to support their thesis of a burgeoning interest in natural food among Americans, Michael Pollan elucidates industrial farming, explains organic farming, and discusses hunting and gathering food for oneself
- In his best-selling book The Omnivore's Dilemma, which social critics see as yet another piece of evidence to support their thesis of a burgeoning interest in natural food among Americans, Michael Pollan elucidates industrial farming, explains organic farming, and discusses hunting and gathering food for oneself.
- Michael Pollan, in his best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which social critics see as yet another piece of evidence to support their thesis of a burgeoning interest in natural foods among Americans, elucidates industrial farming, explaining organic farming and discussing hunting and gathering food for oneself.
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In his best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, elucidating industrial farming, explaining organic farming, and discussing hunting and gathering food for oneself, Michael Pollan gives social critics yet another piece of evidence to support their thesis of a burgeoning interest in natural food among Americans.
- Michael Pollan, in his best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, serving as yet another piece of evidence to support the thesis of a burgeoning interest in natural food among Americans, elucidates industrial farming, explains organic farming, and discusses hunting and gathering food for oneself.
- In his best-selling book The Omnivore's Dilemma, which is seen by social critics as yet another piece of evidence to support their thesis of a burgeoning interest in natural food among Americans, Michael Pollan elucidates industrial farming, explaining organic farming and discussing hunting and gathering food for onesel
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A
Explanation
Option(A) is correct
A. the subject (Michael Pollan) and verb (elucidates) are placed close together, making the sentence easily comprehensible; the modifying phrases refer to the proper phrases or nouns
B. the subject (Michael Pollan) and verb (elucidates) are separated by two long modifying phrases, creating a sentence that is awkward and unclear
C. the modifying phrase In his best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma is illogically and improperly separated from the noun it is meant to modify (i.e., Michael Pollan)
D. the modifying phrase In his best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma is illogically and improperly separated from the noun it is meant to modify (i.e., Michael Pollan)
E. the three traits of the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma are not parallel:elucidates...explaining...discussing; the correct parallelism would be: elucidates..., explains..., and discusses