English Quiz for IPPB Scale I Prelims Exam 2016-17 – Set 7 – Sentence Improvement & Para Jumble

Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and no correction is required, mark (e) as the answer.

1. Innovators create products which is an outgrowing of what they imagine, things that help them create a world they would like to live in.

(a) what is an outgrowing of what has been imagined by them

(b) which are an outgrowth of what they imagine

(c) which are outgrowing what they imagine

(d) which outgrew their imagination

(e) No correction required

2. The product-driven organisation has the product as the most important element in everything it does.

(a) does everything to have the product’s most important element

(b) does the most important things to have all elements of importance in its products

(c) had the product as the most important element in everything they do

(d) keeps the most important element in every product they do

(e) No correction required

3. He had always have a full measure of a trait that is a mark of a successful leader—determination.

(a) did always do a full measure of a trait

(b) had always did have a full measure of a trait

(c) had always have a fully measured traits

(d) has always had a full measure of a trait

(e) No correction required

4. Most of the people were dumbfounded and obviously uncomfortable by the performance that was expected of them.

(a) with the performance that they were expecting

(b) by the performance that they were expected with

(c) with the performance that was expected of them

(d) at the performance which had expectations of them

(e) No correction required

5. If he considered you to be a bright, capable and made contribution to his proposed project, he would listen to your criticising him.

(a) are bright, capable and had made contribution to

(b) to be bright, capable and making contribution to

(c) to be bright, capable and had been contributed for

(d) would have been bright, capable and contributing with

(e) No correction required

Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) But the cold reality is that the RBI’s debt restructuring scheme, which allows banks to take over majority stakes in companies if a debt restructuring failed, is at best an interim measure.

(B) The prolonged slowdown in the economy has eroded the market for distressed assets so much that even asset reconstruction companies have found it hard to offload them.

(C) Last week, the Reserve Bank issued new norms for Strategic Debt Conversion (SDR) which will give lenders the right to convert their outstanding loans into a majority equity stake if the borrower fails to meet conditions stipulated under the restructuring package.

(D) The RBI has done what it could to put the fear of God in the minds of errant borrowers; the ball is now in the government’s court.

(E) While the new norms may help banks arm-twist recalcitrant borrowers and deter defaulters, it is unlikely to make a big dent in the existing asset quality problem.

(F) The bulk of bad loans are linked to firms that are stuck with over-capacity and weak demand, and are therefore simply unable to service their debt.

6. Which of the following sentences will come FIRST after rearrangement?

1) A 2) C 

3) B 4) D 

5) E

7. Which of the following sentences will come SECOND after rearrangement?

1) A 2) B 

3) C 4) D 

5) E

8. Which of the following sentences will come THIRD after rearrangement?

1) A 2) B 

3) E 4) C 

5) D

9. Which of the following sentences will come FIFTH after rearrangement?

1) A 2) B 

3) C 4) D 

5) E

10. Which of the following sentences will come LAST after rearrangement ?

1) A 2) F 

3) C 4) D 

5) B