General English ( Spotting Errors)By NexisGrow / September 20, 2024 Notice:- Default Language is English, You can’t change language to Hindi in this Quiz. General English (Spotting Error) These question is from previous year papers of SSC, BANKING, RAILWAYS and other competitive exams. You have 30 Sec for each questions. 1 / 15 Iran is not the only country (A)/ there the US has sought to destabilize (B)/ hostile governments through intensive (C)/ intervention in domestic politics. (D)/ No error. A B C D Iran is not the only country where the US has sought to destabilise hostile governments through intensive intervention in domesticpolitics.Explanation:Relative pronouns “Where” should replace theword “there” in order to make the sentence errorfree. A relative pronoun is one which is used torefer to nouns mentioned previously. 2 / 15 Import bans and international sanctions on Russia (A) / may constrain the future cash flow-generating (B) / capacity of some assets and (C) / lead to impairment losses for many companies. No error (D) A B C D 3 / 15 A sentence has been divided in four parts in each question. Select the grammatically correct sentence and mark the option accordingly. A. The public’s expectation of what they hope B. to learn from a visit to the museum is quite different C. nowadays of the intentions with which D. museums in India were created. Answer: DA – Here, we have used ‘public’ in plural manner. Therefore, expectation has to be in plural formi.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. 4 / 15 Many American politicians (A)/ have been blaming the (B)/ continuous lose of American jobs (C)/ on globalisation aided (D)/ by digital technology. A B C D 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. 5 / 15 Ambiverts can be good salespeople because they are (A)/ able to listen to their clients and understand their needs (B)/ but also have an energy to sell (C)/ their firms’ goods and services. (D)/ No error. A B C D Answer: CAmbiverts 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. 6 / 15 As the telegraph triggered the (A)/ development of newly technologies, communication (B)/ became progressively footloose, (C)/ liberated from the constraints (D)/ of space and time A B C D : (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. 7 / 15 The ceasefire on the line of control is barely holding up (A) /with infiltration from the Pakistani side (B) /adding to the local Kashmiri youth willing to pick up the gun (C) / opening any other half front for the military (D) A B C D 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 8 / 15 Three decades after it’s economy (A) / was liberalized, India remains (B) / a complex and challenging (C) / place to do business. (D)/ No error. A B C D Answer: AThree 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. 9 / 15 A sentence has been divided in four parts in each question. Select the grammatically correct sentence and mark the option accordingly. A. The fundamental point thus being established is B. the veracity of consciousness when it does not go C. beyond itself, or do not postulate D. something which are external to itself. Answer: BA – 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 ‘doD – ‘is’ should replace ‘are’ as ‘something’ issingular. 10 / 15 The much-awaited vehicle scrap page policy announced by the Transport Ministry, (A)/ coming after the move for a green tax (B)/ on ageing and polluting automobiles, (C)/ promising economicbenefit. (D) A B C D Answer: DThe 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 vehiclescrappage 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. 11 / 15 Our vaccine manufacturers (A) /by scaling u to meet the demands (B) /of such a large population(C) /have shown that they are none to second (D) A B C D Answer: DThe correct phrase is ‘second to none’ which means ‘better than all others of the same kind; Prominent. 12 / 15 Cold wave conditions over parts of North-West India and (A) / adjoining Central and East India will abate as twin weather-making western (B) / disturbances moves in afresh across the international border, (C) / with one of them being an active and intense system (D) / capable of setting up clouds, snow and rainfall . A B C D 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.” 13 / 15 The plane involved in crash was not (A) / a Boeing 737 Max, a model it (B) / was banned globally, including in India, (C) / following two deadly crashes, and has (D) / not yet resumed flying in China. (E) A B C D 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.” 14 / 15 India scripted history on Thursday (A)/ with its covid-19 vaccine doses administered crossing the one-billion mark, (B)/ accomplishing in just about nine months (C) / after the vaccine program rollouton January 16 (D) A B C D 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’. 15 / 15 A sentence has been divided in four parts in each question. Select the grammatically correct sentence and mark the option accordingly. A. The portion of the interest earned on the state university’s endowment B. that is set aside to fund merit scholarships to outstanding C. high school seniors is more numerous than that set aside to fund D. the university’s high-power athletic program. Answer: AB – The sentence wants to say that, the endowment is set aside to fund scholarships. The funding is for whom? High school seniorsobviously. 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. Your score isThe average score is 33% 0% Restart quiz
