NTT Data Sentence Improvement and Construction Quiz 1

Explanation - Use of “since” is incorrect here as ‘since is used to denote a point of time in the past and ‘for’ is used for a period of time. Here the period of two years is mentioned. Hence, ‘for’ is appropriate.

Explanation - The correct sentence is - Shivani could not help laughing at your lame jokes. Here the use of “to” after help is incorrect. The infinitive verb (to) is contradicting the conditional tense of the sentence. Instead of ‘help to laugh’ it should be ‘help laughing’. Here, two verbs are placed one after the other meaning, the first verb ‘help’ is a specific verb (specifying an action) and the second verb should be a gerund(verb-ing). So it takes ‘help laughing’ meaning that shivani could not stop laughing at your lame jokes.

Explanation - The correct sentence is - Renu is the most intelligent girl in her school. Here, the word 'most intelligent' is in superlative degree, and according to the rule, a superlative degree always carries definite article 'the' with it. Hence, 'the most' is correct.

Explanation - The use of denied is incorrect here as it is denied by a servant. The servant is in a position or a person who must obey all the orders of the manager, or of the person at a higher position than him. So it should be disobeyed which means to not follow the orders.

Explanation - Here we will use ‘see’ only instead of ‘you will see’ because the present form of the verb - ‘take out’ is used and in the first clause we already have your so we cannot use ‘you see’ again in sentence.

Explanation - Here we will use ‘to lie in bed’ instead of ‘to lay in bed’ because lay means to place something down flat and lie means to be in a flat position on a surface or bed.

Explanation - Here we have two actions stated - One is when the sun is setting and the second is when we reach the resort. Since the first action was completed before the second action and both the actions are in past tense, the first action would take past perfect form and the second or the immediate past action would take simple past form. Hence use 'had set'

Explanation - We will use ‘felt strongly’ instead of ‘was feeling strongly’ as the given sentence is in the past indefinite tense (simple past). Therefore the bold part should be in simple past tense. So it will be - While campaigning against Save Girl Child the leader said that he felt strongly that a girl child should be saved.

Explanation - Here we will use ‘disappointing end to’ instead of ‘disappointed end to’ because the sentence requires a verb (disappointing) not an adjective (disappointment).

Explanation - Here we will use ‘fed up with’ instead of ‘by’. Because ‘with’ indicates the relation between the emotion and the object with which the emotion (fed up) emerged.