Cognizant Sentence Improvement & Construction Quiz – 1

In this sentence we see that the subject 'the mother' is being followed by present perfect tense hence the second clause will take simple present tense to refer to the subject. Hence 'looks forward' is completely correct.

'in' is the appropriate preposition used here. When we talk about doing a task we use 'in' and not 'at'.

The reason why he wrote the letter because he could not contact him over the phone.

the word WHY is used to know the reason of something.

Whatever to our other problems, we have no scarcity of cheap labour in India.

The sentence uses 'whatever' that means a contrasting sentence where the first clause is negative (problems), there is no scarcity (less) labour in India.

When two subjects are joined by ‘and’, the verb is plural hence “are” is used.

Participle phrase is used here as Hearing the good news. This phrase modifies the person who does the hearing. So, the subject of the principal clause will be ‘James’.

The adjectives used in the sentence are correct for the context.

Unpleasant - not very pleasing

Nasal tone - speaking through a clogged-up or runny nose

This describes the teacher very conveniently

‘Await’ means ‘to wait for’. So, either we can use ‘await’ or ‘wait for’ to elude redundancy.

The pronoun “you” is used in the sentence which should be replaced by “me”