Key with Explanations for English Sentence Correction Exercise - Set 4

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Friends, here is the key with explanations for our English Sentence Correction Exercise-Set 4 . Take the test from here before Checking these answers. Thank you.

• Politics gives a number of theories about the state
• Explanation : Politics, like mathematics, linguistics, economics, and other domains ending in -ics, is syntactically singular. Not plural. So you have to use gives instead of give.
• Inspite of all my advice, he started drinking. 
• Explanation : There is no word as advices. Advice is an uncountable noun so we can never say advices.
• The girl resembles her father.
• Explanation : No "to" before resembles.
  
• He discussed the problem with me.
• I received your letter last week.
• Explanation : Last week is not immediate past. So you shouldn't use have before received.
• John had sent a message that he was going to Delhi.
• She has been working hard for the last two months.
• One of my friends has gone to paris.
• Explanation: One of your friends (a single person) gone to Paris. So you shouldn't use have. 
• The boy is very arrogant, isn't he ?
• Explanation: Here you are talking about the boy. So in question tag you should mention "he".
• Mary is the ugliest of the three girls. (or) Mary is uglier of the two girls. 
• Explanation : Ugliest comes when there are three or more than three girls.
• There is a danger of this old tree's falling on the nearby hut.
• Scarcely I solved one problem than another cropped up. 
• Explanation : If the second event occurs immediately after the first, we can express that idea using the structure "Scarcely … than".

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