AMCAT Sentence Correction Quiz-1

Answer - I will be travelling to Sikkim next week

Here we have used a future continuous tense which shows an action happening over a period of time in the future. The person does not specify the day of the next week so we take the entire duration of the week as a probable time for the person to travel to Sikkim. Hence we use Future Continuous Tense.

Answer - Expression is something that comes naturally to me

The phrase ‘comes naturally’ means that the specific object doesn’t require any effort to be expressed or put before others on part of the doer. To be born with talent.

While expression is a singular subject, we use ‘comes’ which is a singular verb and not ‘come’.

Comes naturally is the phrase and not ‘natural’.

Answer - Scenarios are a management tool used to improve the quality of executive decision making.

The error in the sentences above are:

With the infinitive verb ‘to’ we use the base form of the verb ‘improve’ and not improving.
With the verb ‘are’ it means that the subject must be plural too, or we can alter the verb and replace ‘are’ with ‘is’.
With the use of the term ‘executive’ we use the article ‘an’.

Hence all of the conditions above are met in the statement given as the answer.

Answer - Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney disease

Diabetes is a singular disease, so it will take a singular verb ‘is’.
When the verb ‘cause’ is followed by the noun, we use ‘of’ and not ‘for’
Since we use ‘the most’ which means one out of all, we use ‘cause’ as a singular verb and not plural.

Hence all of the conditions above are met in the statement given as the answer.

Answer - Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed

We use the preposition ‘in’ after interest when we talk about the interest in an activity.
‘Once’ is used to relate to an activity that must have been carried out in the past but it is no longer in action. Hence the verb used with once is past tense. So we use ‘once enjoyed’.

Answer: What genre of movies do you like to watch?

The articles a/an or the are not used with words such as (kind of, sort of, genre of, etc). So we use ‘which genre of movies’.
The next point to understand is using the verb before ‘do’ before you because every pronoun needs a verb before or after it to denote the action of the pronoun.

Answer - If the plans had been drafted last week, why haven’t they been implemented yet?
“Last week” dictates the simple past tense “were.” Present perfect “have been” refers to the status now of something already accomplished in the past. Subjunctive present perfect “would have been” is never used in a conditional “If” clause/phrase, only as its complement (“If…, then they would…”). Singular “was” disagrees with plural “plans.”

Answer - Panache, which traces back to Late Latin pinnaculum, originally referred to a showy, feathery plume on a hat or helmet.
When we refer to a subject as a universal statement, we use the simple present form of tense. Hence we use ‘traces back; and not tracing back.
When we use ‘could be’ it is always followed by a past form of the verb. Hence it should be ‘traced’.
While describing a word’s origin, we use the term ‘referred’ with the adverb ‘originally’.

Answer - The judge who was vested with the powers of judgement was disinterested in the case
The correct word choice for this sentence is “disinterested,” meaning not personally involved or invested and (presumably) impartial. “Uninterested” means literally not interested, i.e. oblivious or not caring.
The term vested is followed by the preposition ‘with’ and preceded by an auxiliary verb depending upon the context.

Answer - My sister would have completed the assignment if only she had prepared.
We use the third conditional to talk about impossible situations. We often use the third conditional to describe regrets.
Structure - if + Past perfect in the in clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.