SBI Clerk Mains English Language Quiz
Directions (1-5): In the following questions few sentences are provided. Identify and mark the sentence which may fail to become the part of the paragraph coherently. Questions containing “none of these” as an option and all the sentences are meaningful and logical with the context of the paragraph mark (e) i.e., “none of these” as your answer choice.
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Directions (6-10): In the questions given below a sentence is divided into five parts marked A-E. The five parts are jumbled and one of the parts has an error in it. Arrange the divided parts into a coherent sentence and identify the part which has an error in it.
Q6. He had not been ready (A)/ Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said (B)/ To accept the Supreme Court’s verdict (C)/ Should have quit (D)/ Sabarimala chief priest Kandararu Rajeevaru (E).
Upon reading the parts, one gets to understand that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is expressing his opinion on Sabarimala chief priest. So, (B) should be the first part.
The parts (A), (C), (D) and (E) would arrange to form a conditional clause;
The part (E) should provide the subject for the first clause of the conditional clause;
The part (D) should provide the predicate for the first clause of the conditional clause;
The part (A) should be the first part of the second clause of the conditional clause; and
The part (C) should be the second part of the second clause of the conditional clause.
So, the correct coherent sequence is BEDAC.
The tone of the sentence suggests that the sentence is a conditional sentence with the clause ‘he had not been ready to accept the Supreme Court’s verdict’ is a conditional part. The starting part ‘he had not been ready…’ is grammatically incorrect. In the cases of conditional sentences, the correct sentences should be ‘had he not been ready…’ So, there is an error in the part (A) of the sentence.
“Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Sabarimala chief priest Kandararu Rajeevaru should have quit had he not been ready to accept the Supreme Court’s verdict.”
Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Q7. Was attempt to checkmate senior BJP leaders (A)/ Mr. Patnaik’s letter to Mr. Modi (B)/ According to political analysts, (C)/ About the BJD government’s performance in Odisha (D)/ From creating any confusion among the people (E)/
The part (C) should be the first part of the coherent sentence. The part (C) is an adverbial phrase ‘according to political analysts’. A clause should follow the starting adverbial phrase.
The part (B) is a perfect phrase to follow the function of the subject of that clause.
No other parts (A), (D) and (E) could behave as a subject.
The part (A), starting with ‘was attempt’, should follow the part (B).
The part (D) qualifying the phrase ‘confusion among the people’ of the part (E) should follow the part (E), and the sub-sequence ‘ED’ should follow the part (A).
So, the final coherent sequence is CBAED.
There is an error in the part (A) of the sentence. The noun ‘attempt’ is an indefinite Countable Noun which must be preceded by an indefinite article ‘an’.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.
According to political analysts, Mr. Patnaik’s letter to Mr. Modi was an attempt to checkmate senior BJP leaders from creating any confusion among the people about the BJD government’s performance in Odisha.
Q8. And something which cannot be stopped (A)/ on the basis of “conjectures and surmises”(B)/ is a “fundamental right” of the party, (C)/ An appeal filed by the BJP said held a “peaceful yatra” (D)/ making voters aware of their rights (E).
The part (E) is qualifying the a (grammatically incorrect) noun-phrase ‘held a “peaceful yatra” of the part (D) and is functioning as an adjective phrase to the noun phrase present in the part (D).
So, the part (E) should follow the part (D).
The tone of the sentence suggests that a phrase ‘held a “peaceful yatra”’, part (A), (B), (C) and (E) are forming a clause which would qualify the verb ‘said’.
The part (D) should be the first part of the coherent sentence.
The part (E) should be the second part of the coherent sentence;
The part (C) starting with a verb-phrase should be the third part of the coherent sentence;
The part (A), starting with ‘and’ should follow the part (C).
The part (B) is qualifying the verb ‘stopped’ present in the part (A) and should follow the part (A).
So, the correct coherent sequence is DECAB.
There is an error in the part (D) of the sentence. Please note that the phrase ‘held a “peaceful yatra”’ should be a noun phrase and the phrase ‘making voters aware of their rights’ should be an adjective phrase, which is qualifying the noun phrase ‘held a “peaceful yatra”’.
But a noun phrase is never start with a past-participle verb, i.e., ‘held’. The verb must be a gerund, i.e., ‘holding’.
Hence, option (e) is the correct answer.
An appeal filed by the BJP said holding a “peaceful yatra” making voters aware of their rights is a “fundamental right” of the party, and something which cannot be stopped on the basis of “conjectures and surmises”.
Q9. The Chief Minister is personally (A)/ in the heart of Imphal (B)/ supervising preparations at Hafta Kangjeibung ground (C)/ where Mr. Modi is scheduled (D)/ to address a public meeting (E).
Among the parts (A) and (D), the part (A) is better poised to be the starting phrase of the sentence.
The part (D) is starting with ‘where’, while the part (A) has both a noun and a finite verb.
The trailing part of the part (A) is ‘is personally’. Either the verb following the part ‘is personally’ would be present participle or past participle. The part (C) starting with a present-participle verb provides the correct grammatical sense to the ‘is’ present in the part (A).
So, the part (C) should follow the part (A).
The part (B) is qualifying the phrase ‘at Hafta angjeibung ground’ present in the part (C) and so, the part (B) should follow the part (C).
The part (D) and (E) seem to be forming to an adverbial clause, qualifying the prepositional phrase ‘at Hafta Kangjeibung ground in the heart of Imphal’. The part (D), starting with ‘where’ and providing both subject and verb, and that too, in correct order’, should precede the part (E).
So, the correct sequence is ACBDE.
There is an error in the part (C) of the sentence. Please note that the noun ‘preparations’ is a plural countable noun and must be preceded by the article ‘the’.
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.
The Chief Minister is personally supervising the preparations at Hafta Kangjeibung ground in the heart of Imphal where Mr. Modi is scheduled to address a public meeting.
Q10. Was introduced by the BJP government (A)/ The group recitation of Vande Matram (B)/ led for (C)/ for the government employees (D)/the then Chief Minister Babulal Gaur in 2005 (E).
Among the given parts, parts (B) and (D) combines to give the subject of the sentence.
‘The group recitation of Vande Mantram for the government employees’ makes both grammatical and contextual sense.
So, the part (B) should be the first part of the coherent sentence.
The part (D) should be the second part of the coherent sentence;
The part (A), starting with ‘was’, should follow the subject of the sentence provided by the sub-sequence ‘BD’.
So, the part (A) should be the third part of the coherent sentence.
It seems that the part (C) and the part (E) would combine to qualify the noun phrase ‘the BJP government’ present in the trailing part of the part (A).
It makes more sense for the (grammatically incorrect) part (C) to precede the part (E).
So, the coherent sequence of the paragraph is ‘BDACE’.
There is an error in the part (C).
The usage of the preposition ‘for’ is incorrect as per the context of the sentence; instead, the adverb ‘by’ should have been used.
Hence, option (b) is the correct answer.
The group recitation of Vande Matram for the government employees was introduced by the BJP government led by the then Chief Minister Babulal Gaur in 2005.
Directions (11-15): In the following questions, a paragraph is given with three blanks, followed by six words. You have to choose the most suitable combination of words among the five four alternative options, that will fill the blank coherently, forming a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful paragraph.
Q11. Despite its ____________________ spiritual significance, the Ganges is also ____________________ for having some of the most polluted water in the world. For 79 per cent of the population of the Ganges ____________________, their nearest river fails sewage pollution standards for crop irrigation.
(i) Tremendous
(Ii) Feasible
(Iii) Notorious
(Iv) Fervid
(V) Habitat
(Vi) Catchment
Q12. The National Democratic Alliance government has ____________________ several extremely unimaginative developmental policies that target areas that have retained some degree of ____________________ value to turn them into sites for industrial production. This is despite ____________________ of the damaging effects of such policies.
(i) Erudite
(Ii) Malicious
(Iii) Improvident
(Iv) Unleashed
(V) Ecological
(Vi) Evidence
Q13. The Chinese growth ____________________ is slowing down. The world’s second-largest economy has reported that its exports for December fell by 4.4%, the sharpest fall in two years ____________________ rising trade tensions with the United States and fears of a global economic ____________________.
(i) Tycoon
(Ii) Juggernaut
(Iii) Pallid
(Iv) Amidst
(V) Slowdown
(Vi) Ordinance
Q14. The idea of a government shutting down ____________________ up images of ____________________ on the streets. The U.S. government shutdown since December 22 has certainly been ____________________, particularly for government employees going without pay.
(i) Conjures
(Ii) Anarchy
(Iii) Orient
(Iv) Operative
(V) Eliminates
(Vi) Disruptive
Q15. GDP numbers should be seen in context of a ____________________ base post GST implementation. While the full impact of GST on the GDP base has not been ____________________, we anticipate the high crude oil prices during the quarter may have ____________________ the downtick.
(i) Captured
(Ii) Squander
(Iii) Normalising
(Iv) Salubrious
(V) Placid
(Vi) Exasperated
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