Welcome to Sentence Correction Modifiers | Practice Exercise
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs. The questions are framed to test your Verbal Ability Skills.
Sentence Correction Modifiers is one of the most important parts of verbal ability questions of the section English for Entrance Exams. Modifiers are words or phrases that modify something else. Common modifiers are adjectives and adverbs as well as infinitive phrases and gerund phrases. Modifiers answer the following questions about the words they modify: What kind? Which one(s)? How many or how much? Whose? When? Where? Why? How? To what extent? Under what conditions?
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1.
Choose the correct sentence from the following:
A) She died in the home in which she was born at the age of 88.
B) She died, at the age of 88, in the home in which she was born.
C) She died at the home in which she was born at the age of 88.
D) She died in the home aged 88 in which she was born.
2.
Choose the incorrect sentence from the following:
A) Having barked all night, I decided to get rid of my dog.
B) My dog having barked all night, I decided to get rid of him.
C) Because my dog barked all night, I decided to get rid of it.
D) Having barked all night, my dog now lives at the pound.
3.
Choose the incorrect sentence from the following:
A) Chicken is ready to eat.
B) Chicken is ready to eaten.
C) Chicken is ready to be eaten.
D) None of the above.
4.
Choose the incorrect sentence from the following:
A) I almost listened to the whole album.
B) I listened to almost the whole album.
C) I listened to the whole album almost.
D) None of the Above.
5.
What is the meaning of the sentence, “After eating the noodles, the bowl was empty.”?
6.
What is the meaning of the sentence, “The closet was empty, having packed everything into the suitcase.”?
7.
What is the meaning of the sentence, “He had a hot bowl of soup.”?
8.
What is the meaning of the sentence, “The stolen man’s bag was found the next day.”?
9.
What is the meaning of the sentence, “She arrived home and fell onto the sofa covered in sweat.”?
10.
Choose the incorrect sentence from the following:
A) The boy who broke his leg, was riding the elephant.
B) The boy was riding the elephant who broke his leg.
C) Both A and B.
D) None of the Above.
