Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here are the New Pattern Error Questions from IBPS PO 2017 Prelims.
1. I am waiting for you (a)/ for the last two hours (b)/ but you did not bother (c)/ to turn up in time (d).
(1) ABC
(2) ACD
(3) BCD
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
2. He is certainly a man (a) / whom I know very well (b) / is trustworthy beyond doubt (c) / and meticulous in his habits. (d)
(1) BCD
(2) ACD
(3) ACD
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
3. No sooner did (a) / we reach the station (b) / than the train had (c) / started moving out of the station. (d)
(1) ABC
(2) ABD
(3) BCD
(4) ACD
(5) No Error
4. I am sure about it, (a)/ nobody has lived (b) / in that house (c) / for a hundred years. (d)
(1) ACD
(2) ABD
(3) ABC
(4) BCD
(5) No Error
5. There were no less (a) / than forty boys (b) / in the class (c) / when this happened. (d)
(1) ABC
(2) ACD
(3) BCD
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
6. I am glad to hear (a) / that you narrowly escaped (b) / being run over by (c) / a speeding car yesterday. (d).
(1) BCD
(2) ACD
(3) ABC
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
7. This laboratory of physics is (a)/ not only equipped with(b)/ all state-of-the-art instruments (c)/ but also with outstanding physicists. (d).
(1) ABC
(2) BCD
(3) ABD
(4) ACD
(5) No Error
8. No method of making (a)/ other people agree to (b)/ your view-point is (c)/ as effective as this method. (d).
(1) ABC
(2) ACD
(3) BCD
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
9. I was pretty sure that (a)/ he would support my views(b)/ for changing the age-old (c)/ and static structure of our organisation. (d).
(1) ABD
(2) ACD
(3) ABC
(4) BCD
(5) No Error
10. I did not like his (a)/ comments on my paper (b)/ but I had no alternative (c)/ as I had agreed to keep quiet. (d).
(1) ACD
(2) ABD
(3) BCD
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
11. The report is candid in admitting (a)/ that the investment by the government (b)/ in health and family planning (c)/ have been eroded considerably. (d).
(1) ABC
(2) ACD
(3) BCD
(4) ABD
(5) No Error
Answers:
1. (3) The sentence should start as, I had been waiting for you…….’
2. (4) It should be “ and who is …” In the given form, the subject ‘of is’ is missing.
3. (2) Delete had. In a “No sooner…than…”structure, than is followed by a subject followed by past simple tense.
4. (1) For a hundred years indicates that the verb should be in the perfect continuous tense. Hence replace ‘has lived’ by ‘has been living’.
5. (3) Boys is countable. Hence replace ‘less’ by ‘fewer’.
6. (5)
7. (4) It should be “equipped not only with” instead of “not only equipped with”.
8. (3) Here, as we are comparing two methods for a single purpose, the sentence should start as – ‘No other method’.
9. (1) Views should always be followed by ‘on’ instead of ‘for’.
10. (2) Delete ‘I’
11. (1) It should be ‘has been’ instead of ‘have been’.
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