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Sentence Improvement Questions with Answers

Replacing an underlined part with the version that is actually correct. This page pools every sentence improvement question on the site — 179 of them, from 23 exams, weighted towards Banking, SSC, Management — so you can drill the topic on its own instead of meeting four of them inside a full paper.

9% of the pool is graded hard on this site’s own scale and 7% easy, which is gentler than the average topic in this section.

Questions
179
Practice set
25 in 25 min
Difficulty
12/151/16
Negative marking
None
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Sentence Improvement questions with solutions

6 from the 179-question pool, worked in full.

  1. 1. Choose the correct replacement for: "I prefer tea than coffee."

    • A. prefer tea over than coffee
    • B. am preferring tea than coffee
    • C. prefer more tea than coffee
    • D. prefer tea to coffee ✓

    Solution. The standard construction is prefer one thing to another.

  2. 2. Improve the underlined part: "I could not help to laugh at the joke."

    • A. help laughing ✓
    • B. help to laugh
    • C. help laugh
    • D. helping to laugh

    Solution. The idiom "cannot help" is followed by a gerund, so it should be "could not help laughing".

  3. 3. Choose the correct replacement for the underlined idea in: "Arun is senior than me."

    • A. senior from me
    • B. more senior than me
    • C. senior over me
    • D. senior to me ✓

    Solution. Senior is followed by to, not than.

  4. 4. Improve the underlined part: "She is one of the analysts who _has_ consistently flagged the risk early."

    • A. has
    • B. having
    • C. had
    • D. have ✓

    Solution. "One of the analysts who" takes a plural verb agreeing with "analysts" (the antecedent of "who"), so "have" is correct, not "has".

  5. 5. Improve the underlined part: "She is one of the officer who always meet deadlines." (underline: "officer who always meet")

    • A. officers who always meet ✓
    • B. officer who always meets
    • C. officers who always meets
    • D. No improvement needed

    Solution. The phrase "one of the..." requires a plural noun ("officers"), and the relative clause verb agrees with that plural noun ("meet"), giving "officers who always meet".

  6. 6. Improve the sentence: “The new glossary is superior than the old one.”

    • A. The new glossary is superior to the old one. ✓
    • B. The new glossary is superior from the old one.
    • C. The new glossary is more superior than the old one.
    • D. The new glossary is superior over the old one.

    Solution. “Superior” takes “to”, not “than”.

Exams that set Sentence Improvement

3 categories, led by Banking, SSC, Management.

Also set by SBI Clerk, SBI PO, SEBI Grade A, SIDBI Grade A & B, SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC CHT, SSC CPO, SSC MTS, SSC Selection Post, SSC Stenographer. Browse all exams.

Sentence Improvement: frequently asked questions

How many sentence improvement questions are there?

179, from the 23 exams here whose syllabus sets the topic. 7% are graded easy and 9% hard, which makes sentence improvement one of the more tractable topics in this section, against a 17% average.

Which exams ask sentence improvement questions?

23 of the exams on this site, weighted towards Banking (14), SSC (7), Management (2). Every question in this pool comes from one of their own mock tests, so the list below is the honest answer to whether the topic is worth your time.

Is sentence improvement hard?

9% of these 179 questions are graded hard and 7% easy, making it one of the more tractable topics in this section, against a 17% average.

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