Thirty multiple choice questions on sentence improvement, the last topic in the Grammar track. Four previous year questions from the real AAI ATC papers are included in Section C, with an answer key at the end.
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Read the whole sentence first — the error is always inside the underlined part, but the clue is usually outside it Check in order: subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, preposition or article, then word choice Fixed pairs: senior/junior to · good at · apologise for · hardly … when · no sooner … than since takes a point in time, for takes a duration
How to use this worksheet.No improvement is a real option and is sometimes correct, so never pick a change just because one is offered. And the clue that fixes the underlined segment is usually in the rest of the sentence — by the time, its, or a nearby past-tense verb.
Section A · Level 1
Correcting the verb
Ten questions. Check the subject, then the tense.
Q1
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He don't like coffee.
A third person singular subject takes doesn't.
Q2
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. She have been waiting since morning.
She is singular, so the auxiliary is has been.
Q3
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. They was playing in the park.
The plural subject they takes were.
Q4
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. I am knowing the answer.
Know is stative and takes no continuous form, so it becomes the plain know.
Q5
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He did not went to school.
After the auxiliary did the main verb returns to its base form, go.
Q6
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. If it will rain, we shall cancel the match.
The if clause of a first conditional takes the present simple, so rains.
Q7
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. The work was completing yesterday.
A passive needs a past participle, so it is was completed.
Q8
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. She said that she will come the next day.
After a past reporting verb, will backshifts to would.
Q9
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. Neither of the boys are present.
Neither is singular and takes is.
Q10
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. The sun rise in the east.
A permanent truth takes the simple present, and a third person singular subject adds -s.
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Section B · Level 2
Prepositions, articles and fixed expressions
Ten questions. Most of these are collocations rather than logic.
Q11
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He is senior than me.
Senior, junior, superior and inferior all take to.
Q12
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. She apologised on her mistake.
The collocation is apologise for something.
Q13
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He has been ill since five days.
A duration takes for; since needs a point in time.
Q14
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. Divide the money among the two brothers.
Between is used for two.
Q15
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. Hardly had he arrived than it started raining.
Hardly pairs with when; it is no sooner that pairs with than.
Q16
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He told to me the whole story.
Tell takes a direct object with no preposition.
Q17
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. The scenery of Kashmir are beautiful.
Scenery is an uncountable singular noun.
Q18
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He is an university student.
University begins with a consonant yoo sound, so it takes a.
Q19
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. One of my friend is a pilot.
One of must be followed by a plural noun.
Q20
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. She is good in mathematics.
The fixed expression is good at a subject or skill.
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Section C · Previous year questions and word choice
Straight from the AAI ATC papers
Ten questions. Four are real previous year questions.
Q21PYQ 2023 · Evening
Select the most appropriate form of the past tense that can substitute the underlined segment to rectify the given sentence. By the time I reached the station, the train already left.
Two past events are described and the train left first, so the earlier action takes the past perfect: had already left. The phrase by the time is a reliable signal that a past perfect is needed.
Q22PYQ 2023 · Evening
Identify the option that rectifies the given sentence to make it grammatically correct. He never come here again.
The subject he is third person singular, so the simple present takes comes. The adverb never only changes the position of the verb, not its form.
Q23PYQ 2021 · Shift 3
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words. The art of growing plants in water without using soil is getting popular worldwide as it can be highly productive and profitable in less space.
Hydroponics is the cultivation of plants in nutrient solution rather than soil. The three wrong options are invented near-spellings, so the question is really testing whether you know the word at all. Note that option 4 is an adverb and could not replace a noun phrase anyway.
Q24PYQ 2021 · Shift 2
Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words. Two volcanoes on the most populous island, Java, are throwing out large quantities of ash into the air.
Spewing is the verb normally used for a volcano discharging ash or lava with force, and it fits the scale described. Expelling is too clinical, belching suggests bursts rather than a continuous flow, and exhausting does not carry this meaning at all.
Q25
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. The list of items are on the desk.
The subject is list, which is singular, so the verb must be is.
Q26
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. I have been working here for 2019.
A point in time takes since.
Q27
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. He asked me that I was ready.
A reported yes-or-no question is introduced by if or whether.
Q28
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. Each of the students have submitted the form.
Each is singular and takes has.
Q29
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. The committee are divided in its opinion.
A collective noun acting as one body takes a singular verb, and the pronoun its later in the sentence confirms it.
Q30
Select the option that best substitutes the underlined part. She has been living here since ten years.
Ten years is a duration, so it takes for.
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