General English ( Spotting Errors)

Answer: B
A – Here, if we read carefully, then we can get to know that we are stating a fact and to state a fact, we need simple present. ‘Being’ denotes continuous tense. Therefore, remove ‘being’.

C – ‘Veracity’ is singular noun. Therefore ‘does’ will replace ‘do

D – ‘is’ should replace ‘are’ as ‘something’ is
singular.

Answer: A
B – The sentence wants to say that, the endowment is set aside to fund scholarships. The funding is for whom? High school seniors
obviously. Therefore ‘for’ will replace ‘to’ because ‘for’ is used to express purpose.
C – “Portion of the interest” is not countable, so obviously anything with “numerous” is wrong. We need to omit ‘more’.
D – Here, ‘high-power’ conveys more of a noun phrase but we need an adjective here.
Therefore,‘High-powered’ i.e. the participle form is required.

Iran is not the only country where the US has sought to destabilise hostile governments through intensive intervention in domestic
politics.
Explanation:
Relative pronouns “Where” should replace the
word “there” in order to make the sentence error
free. A relative pronoun is one which is used to
refer to nouns mentioned previously.

Solution: In C, replace LOSE with LOSS, as the former is a verb andthelatterisanoun. We need a noun here to be modified by the adjective CONTINUOUS.

Answer: D
The much-awaited vehicle scrappage policy announced by the Transport Ministry, coming after the move for a green tax on ageing and polluting automobiles, promises economic benefit.
Explanation:
Here the subject “The much-awaited vehicle
scrappage policy” which is a singular subject. Usage of gerund form is grammatically incorrect. The present verb in “s” form must be used.
Promises is the correct verb.

Answer: D
The correct phrase is ‘second to none’ which means ‘better than all others of the same kind; Prominent.

Answer: C
 In part B, replace ‘it’ with ‘that We use ‘that’ to refer to a person or a thing that is already mentioned.
 The sentence is, “The plane involved in crash was not a Boeing 737 Max, a model that was banned globally, including in India, following two deadly crashes, and has not yet resumed flying in China.”

Answer: A
Three decades after its economy was liberalized, India remains a complex and challenging place to do business.
Explanation:
Usage of “it’s” is incorrect. “It’s” is the short form of “It is”. But in the given sentence we need a possessive noun “its” to showcase the relationship between India and its economy.

Answer: D
‘Any other’ is used in negative sentences but ‘another’ is not used in negative sentences hence, ‘Another’ will be used instead of ‘any other’. Also, ‘Another’ means ‘one more’, an extra thing or person

Answer: C
‘The simple past tense’ is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now or when past point of time is given. ‘Accomplishing’ will be replaced by ‘accomplished’.

: (b)
Solution: In B, replace NEWLY with NEW, as the former is an adverb and the latter is an adjective. We need an adjective here to modify the noun TECHNOLOGIES. Thus, (b) is the right answer.

Answer: A
 In part C, replace ‘moves’ with ‘move’.
 The subject ‘cold wave conditions’ is plural and it must take the verb ‘move’.
 The sentence is, “Cold wave conditions over parts of North-West India and adjoining Central and East India will abate as twin weather-making western disturbances move in afresh across the international border, with one of them being an active and intense system capable of setting up clouds, snow and rainfall.”

Answer: C
Ambiverts can be good salespeople because they are able to listen to their clients and understand their needs but also have the energy to sell their firms’ goods and services.
Explanation:
Article usage is wrong here.
We generally use Article “an” with a singular countable noun. But “Energy” is an uncountable noun.

Answer: D
A – Here, we have used ‘public’ in plural manner. Therefore, expectation has to be in plural form
i.e. ‘expectations’.
B – Here, we have not referred to any particular museum and therefore, article ‘a’ should come before ‘museum’ instead of ‘the’.
C – ‘Different’ should take the preposition ‘to’ and not ‘of’. Therefore, ‘nowadays to the intentions……’ is correct.