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English Quiz For IBPS Exam 2016

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Directions (1-5): Improve the bold part in each of the following sentences, if needed.
Q1. The registrar of Co-operative Societies have recently conducted an internal inquiry.
(a) have conducted recently
(b) recently have conducted
(c) has been recently conducted
(d) has recently conducted
(e) No correction required

Q2. Records have shown that the scam has been going on for at least ten years.
(a) went on
(b) had gone on
(c) has been gone on
(d) has been going upon
(e) No correction required
Q3. They would have been appreciated your efforts if you had informed them.
(a) would have appreciated
(b) would have appreciated of
(c) would be appreciated
(d) should have been appreciated
(e) No correction required

Q4. He took a longer time to read the text for he wanted to go about it carefully.
(a) go about it hastily
(b) go at it casually
(c) go through it carefully
(d) go through it hurriedly
(e) No correction required
Q5. He won’t tell you his problem unless you agree of helping him.
(a) do not agree to help
(b) agree to help
(c) agree for help
(d) do not agree of help
(e) No correction required
Directions (6-15): Find out the error, if any.
Q6. In a fit of anger he told his superior that he will go on leave from the same day.
(a) In a fit of anger
(b) he told his superior
(c) that he will go on leave
(d) from the same day.
(e) No Error
Q7. After he had read the two first chapters of the novel, he felt like reading the book at one sitting.
(a) After he had read the two first chapters
(b) of the novel,
(c) he felt like reading
(d) the book at one sitting.
(e) No Error
Q8. He came very close to me and asked me that if. I would lend him some money.
(a) He came very close to me
(b) and asked me that if.
(c) I would lend
(d) him some money.
(e) No Error

Q9. Although he is my bosom friend, I cannot ask him for money without any vividly reason.
(a) Although he is my bosom friend,
(b) I cannot ask him for
(c) money without any
(d) vividly reason.
(e) No Error
Q10. We are aware that we do not always get what we want to get.
(a) We are aware
(b) that we do not
(c) always get what
(d) we want to get.
(e) No Error
Q11. We asked them why did they want to enter into a business with which they were less familiar.
(a) We asked them
(b) why did they want to
(c) enter into a business with which
(d) they were less familiar.
(e) No Error
Q12. Many a man have been working under me.
(a) Many a man
(b) have been
(c) working
(d) under me.
(e) No Error
Q13. We would have accompanied you to the picnic spot if you would have told us in advance.
(a) We would have
(b) accompanied you to
(c) the picnic spot if you
(d) would have told us in advance.
(e) No Error
Q14. What does matter most is the behaviour and not the polite conversation.
(a) What does matter
(b) most is the behaviour
(c) and not
(d) the polite conversation.
(e) No Error
Q15. If all of you quarrel among yourself we shall not be able to solve your problems.
(a) If all of you quarrel
(b) among yourself
(c) we shall not be able
(d) to solve your problems.
(e) No Error
Solutions
S1. Ans.(d) 
Sol. ‘has recently conducted’. Use singular verb for the subject ‘the registrar’.

S2. Ans.(e) 
Sol. No correction required. The given sentence is grammatically correct.


S3. Ans.(a) 
Sol. ‘would have appreciated’. This is third conditional sentence structure.

S4. Ans.(c) 
Sol. ‘go through it carefully’ is correct word choice according to the context of the sentence. 

S5. Ans.(b) 
Sol. agree to help’ is correct phrase.

S6. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Use ‘he would go’.

S7. Ans.(a) 
Sol. Write ‘the first two chapters’.

S8. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write ‘asked me if’. Remove ‘that’.

S9. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Use ‘vivid reason’.

S10. Ans.(e) 
Sol.  No correction required. The given sentence is grammatically correct.

S11. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Use ‘why they wanted’. In the case of interrogative sentences in Indirect speech, we change it into statement sentence. That is ‘we use verb after the subject’.

S12. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Use singular verb ‘has’. In the structure “many +a+ singular countable noun+ singular verb”.

S13. Ans.(d) 
Sol.  Use ‘had told’. This is third conditional sentence structure.

S14. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  Write ‘what matters most’.

S15. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Write plural pronoun ‘yourselves’.

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