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All the allegation leveled against him were found to be baseless

Rohit is as fast as or perhaps faster than Manish

I shall be grateful to you if you are of help to me now

He cannot succeed in business because he works by fits and starts

He did many mischiefs

You may appoint whoever you think can do the job most efficiently.

This carpenter is the most skilled of all the other carpenter in our workshop.

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Rule for Sentence Improvement &


Construction
Definition
Sentence improvement and construction tests are intended to check your knowledge of English grammar.
Under this a variety of English verbs, modals, tenses, conjunctions, prepositions, articles and
suppositories questions will be asked.  
In the questions, you will find that there will be a sentence with a phrase or word or a clause which will
be in a bold or underlined. Four to five options will be present following to that. What all you need to do
is to replace the underlined or bold word with an option so that the sentence becomes free of any
grammatical mistakes.
The sentence improvement and construction techniques mainly check correctness and effectiveness of
sentences. While choosing the answers you should have enough knowledge of standard written English.
You have to select that answer which is clear, without any ambiguity or redundancy. In other words
student’s proficiency in English grammar, selection of words, and construction style matters a lot to have
excelled in this topic.
From this section few types of questions are asked in the examinations. These types are mentioned below:
Type 1. Subject-Verb Agreement:
Under this if the subject in the sentence is in the singular form then the verb will also be singular form
and if the subject is in the plural form then the verb will also be in a plural form.

Type 2. Changer/Modifier:
These are the words or phrases which changes the given words in the question.

Type 3. Parallel Elements


It says that same ideas should be presented in the same grammatical form.

Type 4. Redundancy: 
As per the rules of redundancy any idea should not be repeated again and again. Repeated words should
be avoided to make sentence clear.

Type 5. Pronoun Reference Error


In pronoun reference use of pronoun is made at the noun’s place.

Type 6. Wording
A wrong use of word may make the whole sentence wrong. Hence selection of right word at right place is
very important.
For better understanding few diction examples are given below. Try to practice these and other diction
words available on internet to clear all the doubts related to this topic.

 
 

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