SBI PO 2018: English Quiz for Prelims – 8

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Following sentences are divided into four parts A, B, C & D. One of the part consists an error. You need to find out the parts which does not have any error. If the entire sentence is error free, choose No error.

 

  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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: The sentence should start as, I had been waiting for you…….’

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 4

Explanation: It should be “ and who is …” In the given form, the subject ‘of is’ is missing.

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 2

Explanation: Delete had. In a “No sooner…than…”structure, than is followed by a subject followed by past simple tense.

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 1

Explanation: For a hundred years indicates that the verb should be in the perfect continuous tense. Hence replace ‘has lived’ by ‘has been living’.

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: Boys is countable. Hence replace ‘less’ by ‘fewer’.

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 5

Explanation: No error

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 4

Explanation: It should be “equipped not only with” instead of “not only equipped with”.

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 3

Explanation: Here, as we are comparing two methods for a single purpose, the sentence should start as – ‘No other method’.

 

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 1

Explanation: Views should always be followed by ‘on’ instead of ‘for’.

 

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 2

Explanation: Delete ‘I’

 

 

 

  1. 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

Answer & Solutions

Option: 1

Explanation: It should be ‘has been’ instead of ‘have been’.

 

 

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