Mu Sigma Sentence Correction Quiz-1

\'Keep up\' (with someone/something) means to stay at the same level as someone or something and fits the context of the sentence. Also none of ‘keep on’ to continue doing something, ‘keep at’ means to persevere and ‘keep off’ means avoid encroaching on or touching, is implied in the sentence.

‘Even’, ‘also’ and ‘too’ all nearly mean the same thing but there are differences in their usage. ‘Also’ and ‘too’ are used when talking about an additional object. ‘Even’ is used to talk about a case that is out of the ordinary. Like in this case – it wouldn’t be expected at his age to work hard instead of amuse himself. But in his case, despite being that age, he did. So we use ‘even’. Also note that when using ‘even’ this way, it is used at the beginning of the phrase and not at the end. The correct phrase would then be ‘Even in his middle age’. Since \'to\' is being used as a preposition here and not as an infinitive, the -ing form of the verb can follow \'to\'. The base form is used when \'to\' is the part of an infinitive.Eg: She came to pay the rent.

‘To come up’ with something means to generate an idea or plan. The sentence points in the same direction. The sentence is in past tense and therefore ‘came’ must be used.

The latter part of the sentence points that something negative is going to happen to people who were unable to achieve their targets. ‘Lay off’ means to dismiss or fire people from a job and perfectly fits the context and since it’s a verb ‘for’ cannot be used.

\'Thoroughly’ is an adverb which means in a complete and detailed manner. But it does not qualify any verb in the sentence. The correct form is ‘thorough’ an adjective which qualifies the noun (gerund) ‘reading’.

Write off’ means to forgive a debt. The sentence also has the same theme. Therefore we need to replace the phrase ‘write of’ with ‘write off’.

it will be caught in place of catched up with.

Air-quality indices rarely take long-term risk into account is the correct replacement for the underlined text.

was correct but complicated is grammatically correct replacement

If I were the prime minister of the country, I would is grammatically correct.