Free Faulty Sentence Structure MCQs with Answers
12 Faulty Sentence Structure MCQs from English, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.
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11. The students in our school are __________ in other schools.
- A. smarter
- B. smarter than
- C. smarter than those
- D. more smarter than
Explanation: “Smarter than those in other schools” compares the students with “those,” meaning the students in the other schools. “Smarter” alone leaves the comparison incomplete, while “more smarter” is a double comparative.
Correct answer: smarter than those12. Though smaller than our solar system, a quasar, which looks like an ordinary star, emits more light ________ galaxy.
- A. than an entire
- B. than entire
- C. than is entire
- D. than entirely
Explanation: The comparison is between the quasar's light and the light of an entire galaxy, so than an entire galaxy completes the construction. Entire must modify the singular noun galaxy, and the other options are grammatically incomplete or illogical.
Correct answer: than an entire