HCL Sentence Correction Quiz-1

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - The baby girl does whatever her younger brother does. Here we remove ‘ was done’ because done is the past participle of do and does is the third-person singular simple present indicative form of doing. The first part of the sentence ‘does’ indicates the action is in the form of doing so by following the first part it should be ‘does’ instead of done.

Explanation -  The correct sentence will be - Suman doesn’t need to go unless her mother wants to. Here we use ‘doesn’t’ instead of ‘need not’ because it is the direct command for not doing something in the past tense, use of need not is incorrect.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be -  In India, there are so many people who are so popular, that they are easily identified by their initials. Here we remove ‘short name’ which is incorrect ‘we’ never use short names. We use an abbreviation or initial name that means only the first letters of the name.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - My cousin to whom I told about my problems was mischief. Here the use of who is incorrect, it should be whom, which means mentioning the third person talking. Whom should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition and Who should be used to refer to the subject of a sentence.

Explanation - The given sentence is correct, as only ‘milk’ is mentioned after ‘have’. Because milk is an uncountable noun and the use of ‘some’, ‘got’, ‘more’, and ‘any’ is incorrect as they indicate the quantity of the particular things.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - Mr. Bajaj need not give any details regarding that issue - his behavior speaks for itself. Here we use ‘Speaks for itself’ because the sentence is in the simple present tense not in the present continuous tense and the meaning of ‘speaks for itself’ is it is clear and needs no further. So we don’t use ‘speaking’ here.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - The medical college has seen few real attempts at surgeries and treatments. Here we use ‘few’ in place of ‘small’ because the word 'few' refers to countable nouns and is used with the plural form. 'Little' is generally used to refer to non-countable nouns and is used with the singular form.

Explanation - The given sentence is correct because ‘greater than that of any other’ is correct among all the given options. Greatest is incorrect because the sentence is in a comparative degree and 'greatest' is the superlative form. So we use 'greater' as the adjective.

 

Larger is not correct because larger is used for geography while greater is used for demographics.

 

Greater than any other country would be incorrect because we need to compare the population with another country's population and not other countries. So we use 'than that of any other country' which reflects the population

Explanation - The correct sentence is - The game of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru team was worse than they had expected in the Indian Premier League. Here we use ‘worse than they had expected’ because worst is superlative degree and worse is comparative degree. So according to the condition we will use a comparative degree here means not too bad.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - Why did Coolie not throw the luggage away? Here we use ‘throw’ instead of threw because throw represents the present tense, the sentence is also in the present tense, and threw is the past participle form of the throw.