SBI PO 2018: English Quiz for Prelims – 8

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Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here is a set of English Quiz for SBI PO 2018 Prelims examination based on Sentence Fillers and error correction.

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.

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…….’

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.

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.

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’.

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’.

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

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”.

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’.

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’.

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’

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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