Sentence Correction for CAT 2008

[sia_steel]

Great thread ! Even i have some questions. Will it be okay, if i also post them daily?

[sia_steel]

I am free today, so i'm going with it. If it's not okay, you people can ask me to stop posting.
Here they go :

1. In her candid autobiography, the author discusses her early years, her desire to become an actress and how she made her debut on the stage.

a. to become an actress, and how she made
b. that she become an actress, and how she made
c. to become an actress, and
d. that she becomes an actress, and
e. that she become an actress and that she make


2. Government authorities predicted correctly that tremendous savings in the consumption of gasoline would be achieved if speeding was to be limited to 55 miles per hour.

a. speeding was to be limited to
b. motorists limited their speed to
c. speeding did not exceed
d. a motorist was to limit his speed to
e. speeding by motorists was to be limited to


3. The desktop computer has revolutionized office procedures more than any machine of modern times.

a. any machine
b. has any machine
c. any other machine
d. has any other machine
e. any other machine has


4. The possibility of expropriation was believed to be unlikely in the near future due to the lack of mining technology and capital available in this small South American country.

a. due to the lack of mining technology and
b. because of the lack of mining technology and
c. because there was no mining technology and
d. because of the lack of mining technology and there was no
e. due to the lack of mining technology and there was no




When a man declares: "Who am I to know?" he is declaring: "Who am I to exist""
in_the_muddle_of_nowhere

[joe_hot_4u]

Originally Posted by sia_steel

I am free today, so i'm going with it. If it's not okay, you people can ask me to stop posting.
Here they go :

1. In her candid autobiography, the author discusses her early years, her desire to become an actress and how she made her debut on the stage.

a. to become an actress, and how she made
b. that she become an actress, and how she made
c. to become an actress, and
d. that she becomes an actress, and
e. that she become an actress and that she make


2. Government authorities predicted correctly that tremendous savings in the consumption of gasoline would be achieved if speeding was to be limited to 55 miles per hour.

a. speeding was to be limited to
b. motorists limited their speed to
c. speeding did not exceed
d. a motorist was to limit his speed to
e. speeding by motorists was to be limited to


3. The desktop computer has revolutionized office procedures more than any machine of modern times.

a. any machine
b. has any machine
c. any other machine
d. has any other machine
e. any other machine has


4. The possibility of expropriation was believed to be unlikely in the near future due to the lack of mining technology and capital available in this small South American country.

a. due to the lack of mining technology and
b. because of the lack of mining technology and
c. because there was no mining technology and
d. because of the lack of mining technology and there was no
e. due to the lack of mining technology and there was no




When a man declares: "Who am I to know?" he is declaring: "Who am I to exist""
in_the_muddle_of_nowhere

1) C
2) B
3) C
4) D

wht are the answers???

[sia_steel]

1. c
Choices a, b and e lack parallel structure; parallel nouns should be used: years, desire, and debut. Choice d unnecessarily changes the infinitive to become.

2. B
Choices a, c, and e imply that driving a car at any speed is speeding. Choice d is wrong, because the subjunctive mood is required in the if clause.


3. C
Choices a and b contain a faulty comparison. The computer is a modern machine, and so the word other must be included. In choices d and e, the word has is unnecessary and awkward.


4.B
Due to should not be used in place of the compound proposition because of. Choice c has an error in agreement between the singular verb ( was) and the compound subject ( technology and capital ). Choice d is wordy and awkward.

[joe_hot_4u]

gr8 work sia, post some more buddy

[Insanebot]

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[aditya253058]

where r the answers of 1000sc questions and 300_ANTONYMS_Questions that r available as attachments???

[vars.jat]

2. B
Choices a, c, and e imply that driving a car at any speed is speeding. Choice d is wrong, because the subjunctive mood is required in the if clause.

Can anyone elaborate this....??

@ iota.... bhai ki hua??khan gaye??

[Iota]

1. The Wallerstein study indicates that even after a decade young men and women still experience some of
the effects of a divorce occurring when a child.
(A) occurring when a child
(B) occurring when children
(C) that occurred when a child
(D) that occurred when they were children
(E) that has occurred as each was a child

2. Since 1981, when the farm depression began, the number of acres overseen by professional
farm-management companies have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area that is about
Colorado's size.
(A) have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area that is about Colorado's size
(B) have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, about the size of Colorado
(C) has grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area about the size of Colorado
(D) has grown from 48 million up to nearly 59 million, an area about the size of Colorado's
(E) has grown from 48 million up to nearly 59 million, about Colorado's size

3. Some bat caves, like honeybee hives, have residents that take on different duties such as defending the
entrance, acting as sentinels and to sound a warning at the approach of danger, and scouting outside the
cave for new food and roosting sites.
(A) acting as sentinels and to sound
(B) acting as sentinels and sounding
(C) to act as sentinels and sound
(D) to act as sentinels and to sound
(E) to act as a sentinel sounding

4. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process them quickly into juice concentrate before
they rot when warmer weather returns.
(A) to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns
(B) if they are quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns to rot them
(C) for them to be processed quickly into juice concentrate before the fruit rots when warmer weather
returns
(D) if the fruit is quickly processed into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns
(E) to have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit

5. Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of
their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly

[bubai376]

Originally Posted by Iota

1. The Wallerstein study indicates that even after a decade young men and women still experience some of
the effects of a divorce occurring when a child.
(A) occurring when a child
(B) occurring when children
(C) that occurred when a child
(D) that occurred when they were children
(E) that has occurred as each was a child

2. Since 1981, when the farm depression began, the number of acres overseen by professional
farm-management companies have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area that is about
Colorado's size.
(A) have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area that is about Colorado's size
(B) have grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, about the size of Colorado
(C) has grown from 48 million to nearly 59 million, an area about the size of Colorado
(D) has grown from 48 million up to nearly 59 million, an area about the size of Colorado's
(E) has grown from 48 million up to nearly 59 million, about Colorado's size

3. Some bat caves, like honeybee hives, have residents that take on different duties such as defending the
entrance, acting as sentinels and to sound a warning at the approach of danger, and scouting outside the
cave for new food and roosting sites.
(A) acting as sentinels and to sound
(B) acting as sentinels and sounding
(C) to act as sentinels and sound
(D) to act as sentinels and to sound
(E) to act as a sentinel sounding

4. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process them quickly into juice concentrate before
they rot when warmer weather returns.
(A) to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns
(B) if they are quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns to rot them
(C) for them to be processed quickly into juice concentrate before the fruit rots when warmer weather
returns
(D) if the fruit is quickly processed into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns
(E) to have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit

5. Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of
their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly

Answers

1-d
2-c
3-b
4-d
5-b

How many rt???