Tech Mahindra Sentence Correction Quiz-1

The error in underlined part is replaced with sense changes in air pressure, and identify familiar odors.

We will not use 'can identify' as it will act as a conflict in structure of the sentence. The verbs have been used without 'can' in the sentence: 'sense, see, detect, sense and identify'. Can used in the beginning before the first verb 'sense' is enough for the sentence.

It will be to one another but also adopt some preferential orientation.

Since we have used the correlative conjunction 'not only' it is always followed by its pair 'but also'. So instead of only 'also' we use 'but also' to support the statement.

The error part is replaced by - through which cultural influences were transmitted.

Since we are talking about transmitting influences and mention places of doing so, we use the preposition 'through' which means providing a medium of transmission. Hence we use 'through which'.

The given sentence is correct.

Since we are comparing two people and talking about the same resemblances, we use 'like' which is a simile. So the construction is correct.

The error in underlined part is replaced by - fearing that it would undermine, as the given sentence is in past continuous tense.

The sentence is a combination of past continuous tense and conditional tense.

So we see that the viewing is in the past and the reason for the same should be stated in a continuous form. Here, 'having feared' is incorrect because it becomes present continuous tense (thus conflict in tenses). So we use 'fearing that it would undermine' because the fear is just an apprehension and not proven yet.

The correct sentence is 'fishermen still operate as they have' will be there in sentence.

Since we are talking about the general group of fishermen, so instead of suing the singular form of 'fisherman' we use 'fishermen' and it also satisfies the pronoun 'they'

The correction in underlined part is older than any of their supposed,

Why do we use 'older'? Because we are comparing the monuments in Brittany with all other monuments in Mediterranean predecessors. So we use the comparative degree 'older' and not the positive degree 'as old as'.

The error in given underlined part is replaced by - civilians who had been bombed out.

The sentence wants to say that king and queen visited factories and probably people who had been impacted by the bomb .

The non underlined sentence is in simple past tense .

A. bombed out civilians - it means that king and queen bombed out civilian . REJECT A
B. they bombed the civilians out - THEY means that king and queen bombed out civilians. REJECT B
C. civilians bombed out - doesn't make sense and doesn't sound meaningful REJECT
D. civilians who had bombed out - civilians bombed out something ..this doesn't make sense .REJECT
E. civilians who had been bombed out - yes this makes sense . KING AND QUEEN VISITED THOSE CIVILIANS WHO HAD BEEN BOMBED OUT . we need past perfect because this event (of people who were bombed )happened before the visit of king and queen .

The error in underlined part is replaced by  - referred to as "firing".

Instead of using the redundant term 'we say that they 'fire' we can easily replace this with 'referred to as firing' because using the pronoun 'we say' seems incorrect according to grammatical rules.

Why? because the term 'we say' means reference or referring to something/ Hence, in simple terms we use 'referred to as firing'.

Since the process of firing is used here and we have used the determiner 'when' meaning a time when something happens, we use the continuous term 'firing'.

The error in underlined part is replaced by- the speed of light.

The parallelism error is in effect here. Since we have used the noun as 'speed of signals' we have to use the same form of noun for the object as well. Instead of using the verb form 'light does travel' we use the noun form 'speed of light' to remove parallelism from the sentence.