Sentence Improvement · SSC CGL previous year questions

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. The team always anticipate a bowling friendly pitch on their easy victory in the T20 matches.

1. A.pitch over their easy victory
2. B.pitch to their easy victory
3. C.pitch for their easy victory
4. D.pitch of their easy victory

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select ‘No substitution’. Satya is always great to his friends who helped him when he was in trouble.

1. A.grateful
2. B.no substitution
3. C.thanked
4. D.greatful

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined word segment in the given sentence. "The wedding was put on until January."

1. A.put in
2. B.put up
3. C.put off
4. D.put down

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined part in the following sentence. Everyone called the reporter a daredevil after he came back safely from the war zone.

1. A.a fearless person
2. B.a hypocrite
3. C.a common man
4. D.an insignificant person

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined word segment in the given sentence. Carnatic music is usually performed by a small troupe of actors, consisting of a principal performer, a melodic accompaniment, and a rhythm accompaniment.

1. A.ensemble of musicians
2. B.panel of judges
3. C.band of singers
4. D.board of directors

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence: If I was the queen, I would give a handsome sum towards education.

1. A.will be the queen
2. B.would be the queen
3. C.have been the queen
4. D.were the queen

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence: Gourav was no good than a foolish person.

1. A.no best
2. B.not good
3. C.no better
4. D.not best

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. My sisters wished me good luck before I went on the stage to sing.

1. A.Told me to break an arm
2. B.Told me to break the ice
3. C.Told me to sit on the fence
4. D.Told me to break a leg

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. Five years later, I was eating this same dish at the same restaurant.

1. A.had been eating
2. B.am eating
3. C.has been eating
4. D.will have be eating

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. Beyond skills, experience, and training, companies search for applicants who display excitement — those they believe shall carry out allocated responsibilities cheerfully and cooperatively.

1. A.shall take up any designated obligations
2. B.will execute assigned duties
3. C.will demonstrate non-biased work
4. D.should pick up all skills and works

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. The mother asked the child, “Will you tell me who did accompany you to the airport?”

1. A.who accompanies you
2. B.who does accompany you
3. C.who accompanied you
4. D.who must be accompanied you

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined word in the given sentence. Our legal system must frame proper legal rules for juvenile criminals.

1. A.young
2. B.dotage
3. C.senile
4. D.old

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. Charles Darwin is renowned for his book on evolution, 'On the Origin of Species', which laid down a treasure of substantiation that evolution occurs, and projected a mechanism, that is, natural selection, for how it does so.

1. A.laid away a treasure of substantiation
2. B.laid about a treasure of substantiation
3. C.laid out a treasure of substantiation
4. D.laid into a treasure of substantiation

Select the option that can replace the underlined phrase and make the sentence grammatically correct: The programme on TV was now shown the blurring faces of the inmates of the rehabilitation centre.

1. A.was now showing the blurred faces of the inmates upon the rehabilitation centre.
2. B.were now showing the blurred faces of the inmates of the rehabilitation centre.
3. C.were now showing the blurring faces of the inmates from the rehabilitation centre.
4. D.was now showing the blurred faces of the inmates of the rehabilitation centre.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. She believed she had been blamed for the mistakes of others for what happened.

1. A.Made a sceptic
2. B.Made a savage
3. C.Made a spinster
4. D.Made a scapegoat

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. When I saw him, I will ask him to return the book he borrowed.

1. A.see him
2. B.had seen him
3. C.shall see him
4. D.have seen him

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. I have been living in Hyderabad since I am born.

1. A.since I was born
2. B.since I have born
3. C.since I will be born
4. D.since I born

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words in the given sentence. He was an irresponsible person to the matter of taking up responsibilities.

1. A.in the matter of taking up
2. B.at the matter of taking up
3. C.by the matter of taking up
4. D.along the matter of taking up

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words in the given sentence. Rare species of frogs were very quicker identified by Stella.

1. A.of frogs were very quickly
2. B.to frogs were very quickly
3. C.of frogs were very quicklier
4. D.in frogs were very quicker

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence: To tell others secret information only for enjoyment is not a good practice.

1. A.spill the words
2. B.spill the cat
3. C.spill the beans
4. D.spill the onions

Select the option that can substitute/replace the bracketed word correctly and complete the sentence: They could (always) stay in, or go for a walk.

1. A.either
2. B.not only
3. C.had better
4. D.neither

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined word in the given sentence: Mayra has the ability for mathematics.

1. A.astute
2. B.aptitude
3. C.attitude
4. D.altitude

Select the word segment that can substitute the bracketed word segment correctly and complete the sentence meaningfully: "(Each participant have) performed well."

1. A.Each participant has
2. B.Each participant were
3. C.Each participant was
4. D.Each participant have been

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence: "There are many factories in the operative area of the city."

1. A.industrious
2. B.mechanical
3. C.industrial
4. D.serviceable

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'. Honesty as well as discipline are required to succeed in life.

1. A.are requirement to succeed in life
2. B.is required to succeed in life
3. C.has required to succeed in life
4. D.No substitution