SBI Clerk 2018: English Quiz for Prelims – 18

Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here is a set of English Quiz for SBI Clerk 2018 Prelims examination based on error corrections.

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is ‘5’. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

1. 1) To begin with / 2) I don’t like his attitude / 3) and so does he hence / 4) we refuse to help him. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: ‘nor does he’

 

2. 1) Since the work / 2) is not much, we / 3) need lesser workers today / 4) than we did yesterday. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: Replace ‘lesser’ by ‘fewer’.

 

3. 1) The workers on strike / 2) agreed to resume their duties / 3) at a condition if / 4) no worker could be victimised. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: ‘on condition that’

 

4. 1) We all live in / 2) a big house which / 3) has built by my / 4) father 50 years ago. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: was built’

 

5. 1) The professor’s plan / 2) both worked out / 3) in theory and / 4) in practice. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 2

Explanation: ‘worked out both’

 

6. 1) The parents and their child /2) was asked to sit while / 3) from across the table /4) a warm smile flashed. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 2

Explanation: Replace was with were because more than one person has been mentioned.

 

7. 1) No sooner had/ 2) they come home/ 3) the mother/ 4) lashed at them./ 5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: It should be ‘than the mother”.

 

8. 1) Within a week the principal /2) sent the parents a letter /3) which was stating that /4) their girls had been admitted. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: It should be stated in place of was stating.

 

9. 1) The hall was /2) spacious enough /3) for the picnic party /4) to live. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 4

Explanation: It should be “to live in”.

 

10. 1) It is time /2) the authorities /3) have banned ragging/4) in the educational institutions. /5) No error

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: Replace have banned with banned.

 

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