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Sentence Improvement

Sentence Skills upper_intermediate hard

Choosing the best way to say something.

Sentence Skills — Detection, correction, rearrangement and translation.

Rules

1. Improve clarity, conciseness and correctness. 2. Avoid redundancy: "return back" → "return"; "repeat again" → "repeat". 3. Prefer the active voice in most writing. 4. Keep parallel structure: "reading, writing and speaking" not "reading, writing and to speak". 5. Avoid double negatives: "I don't have no money" → "I have no money". 6. Choose the most natural, grammatically correct option.

Explanation

Sentence improvement is about style plus correctness: remove redundancy, fix parallelism, choose the cleanest phrasing.

हिंदी में

Sentence improvement में सबसे अच्छा और सही विकल्प चुनना होता है — redundancy हटाएँ, parallelism रखें।

Examples

Improve: Please return back the book. → Please return the book. — कृपया किताब लौटा दें।
Improve: She likes to read, write and to speak. → She likes reading, writing and speaking. — वह पढ़ना, लिखना और बोलना पसंद करती है।

Common Mistakes

{"mistake":"I don't have no money.","correction":"I don't have any money.","note":"Avoid double negatives."}
{"mistake":"The reason is because...","correction":"The reason is that...","note":"Redundant — use \"that\"."}

Practice Questions

Q1. Improve: "He does not know nothing about it."

He does not know anything about it.
He does not know nothing about it.
He does not know no thing about it.
He does not know something nothing about it.

Answer: He does not know anything about it.

💡 Double negative → use "anything".

Q2. Improve: "I am used to work late."

I am used to working late.
I am used to work late.
I used to working late.
I am used work late.

Answer: I am used to working late.

💡 "Be used to" takes a gerund: used to working.

Q3. Improve: "She has a lot of informations."

She has a lot of information.
She has a lot of informations.
She has many informations.
She has much informations.

Answer: She has a lot of information.

💡 Information is uncountable.

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Topic	Level	What it covers
Word Rearrangement	elementary	Arrange jumbled words into a correct sentence.
Error Detection	upper_intermediate	Finding the part of a sentence that contains a grammar error.
Sentence Correction	upper_intermediate	Rewriting an incorrect sentence correctly.
Sentence Rearrangement	upper_intermediate	Putting jumbled sentences or words in the correct order.
Fill in the Blanks	intermediate	Choosing the correct word for a gap in a sentence.
Cloze Test	upper_intermediate	Filling multiple blanks in a short passage.