NTT Data Sentence Formation Quiz 1

Explanation - Here we will use ‘he has been working’ instead of ‘he is working’. The first phrase of the sentence is in past tense but when talking about the action it started in the past but is still happening in the present. So it will be ‘has been working’ which denotes the sentence is in present perfect continuous tense.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - Jeans were not allowed in my school. As jeans are always used in pairs and we usually use to say pairs of jeans. So it is plural in form and ‘allowed’ indicates that the sentence is in past tense. So the options ‘will’ and ‘is’ and ‘had’ are incorrect.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - The man to whom I told my story was very kind and humble. The meaning of ‘who’ is used to refer to the subject of a sentence and ‘whom’ is used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition. Here the object is ‘my story’ and the preposition ‘to’ is used to connect it. So we will use ‘whom’ here.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - The teacher asked Anamika to read the passage one more time. We use ‘asked’ here as it means requesting or asking more politely. And ‘told’ means ordering or instructing.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - All relatives were introduced to the groom and bride. Here ‘relatives’ is plural in form and ‘introduced’ indicates that the sentence is in past tense. so, we use ‘were’ introduced.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - Because of his experience in dance, his dance academy is growing in popularity. Here use of ‘have grown’ is incorrect as it means having completed it’s growth. So we use ‘is growing’ to mean the action is in continuous form.

Explanation - The correct sentence is - Students who are doing higher studies should get used to waking up early in the morning.
Here we use ‘used’ instead of ‘habit’ because it refers to things in the past which are no longer true so, we make them in use for now or from now.

Explanation - The given sentence is correct grammatically and structurally. We use ‘were’ here as a sentence in past tense and as follows to saina’s friends(subject) and all is followed by verb 3 (astonished).

Explanation - The correct sentence is - The population of china is higher than that of any other countries in the world. Here we use ‘any other’ instead of ‘all the other’ because ‘any’ refers to the singular form and ‘all the other’ refers to the plural or whole world. Here we are doing a comparison between two countries, China and any other country. So any other is correct here.

Explanation - The correct sentence will be - The dance performance of all the senior students at the annual function of my school were rather worse than I had expected. Here we use ‘worse than I had expected’ instead of ‘worst than I had expected’ because we use ‘worse’ when directly comparing two or more things, and worst is used to describe something that is the ‘most bad’. So here we are comparing what he expects and what actually is. Hence we use ‘worse than I had expected’.