English Quiz for IBPS Clerk & RBI Assistant Prelims 2017 – 4 (Error Based on IBPS PO Pre)

DIRECTIONS (1-10): Identify the error in the sentences given
below and choose the option which indicates the parts without any error, if
there is no error, click option (5).

1. (a) The need to set up (b) a good library in the locality
(c) has been in the minds of people (d) for some time now

(1) ABC

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ACD

(5) No error

2. (a) Most people would have (b) attended the union meeting
(c) if they had (d) had longer notice of it.  

(1) ABD

(2) ABC

(3) ACD

(4) BCD

(5) No error

3. (a) He took to (b) reading Times (c) for better knowledge
(d) of the facts.  

(1) ACD

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ABC

(5) No error

4. (a) When children have difficulty understanding (b) a
certain mathematical process, it is often because (c) their teachers do not
understand it conceptually (d) themselves and do not present it in a way that
children can understand. .

(1) ABC

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ACD

(5) No error

5. (a) Studies show that the lives of millions of mothers
(b) and their children could be saved if countries would (c) invest in programs
that ensures a healthy pregnancy, (d) and safe childbirth.

(1) BCD

(2) ABD

(3) ABC

(4) ACD

(5) No error

6. (a) Film viewers claim that (b) the number of scenes
depicting alcohol consumption (c) have increased dramatically over (d) the last
decade.  

(1) ABC

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ACD

(5) No error

7. (a) Forty percent of the people alive today have (b)
never made a phone call, but (c) thirty percent still have no electricity
connections (d) to their homes.  

(1) ACD

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ABC

(5) No error

8. (a) Workers with less (b) personal problems are (c)
likely to be (d) more productive in their work.

(1) ABC

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ACD

(5) No error

9. (a) Everyone who visits Singapore (b) is impressed by its
cleanliness, (c) which is mainly a result of rigorous implementation (d) of their
strict laws.  

(1) BCD

(2) ACD

(3) ABD

(4) ABC

(5) No error

10. (a) The bridal dress was (b) most unique: the prince (c)
designed it and his (d) mother provided the lace fabric.

(1) ACD

(2) ABD

(3) BCD

(4) ABC

(5) No error

1. (2) ABD –  ‘The
need to set up a good library in the locality has been in the minds of the
people’ is correct. Therefore option (c) requires an article-the, otherwise the
expression is not correct.

2. (2) ABC-  Most
people would have attended the union meeting if they had had a longer notice of
it. Therefore option (d) is wrong and article ‘a’ should be used before longer.

3. (1) ACD – He took to reading the Times for better
knowledge of the facts, is the correct sentence. Therefore in option (b)
article ‘the’ will be used before the name of a newspaper, Time.

4. (1)  BCD – When
children have difficulty in understanding a certain mathematical process, it is
often because their teachers do not understand it conceptually themselves and
do not present it in a way that children can understand. Therefore option (a)
difficulty will take the preposition ‘in’ to be correctly expressed.

5. (2) ABD – Invest in programs that ensure a healthy pregnancy,
is the correct use.

6. (2) ABD – The number of scenes depicting alcohol
consumption has increased dramatically over— is the right use. Therefore the
number as the subject will take a singular verb ‘has’, in option (c).

7. (1) ACD – The provided information is based on a single
theme therefore the two parts of the sentence should be connected by
conjunction ‘and’ not by ‘but’. The conjunction ‘But’ is used when the flow of
information is in opposite direction.

8. (3) BCD – Less is used when you’re referring to something
that can’t be counted or doesn’t have a plural, fewer is used for ‘countable’
and less for ‘uncountable’. In the given sentence, since ‘problems’ are countable,
‘fewer’ should be used.

9. (4) ABC – Here the singular subject Singapore will take
pronoun its in option (d).

10. (1) ACD – Most unique is the wrong comparative. In
option (b) So, it should be ‘the gown was unique’.