Directions (1-15): In the following questions, a sentence is given which is divided into different parts. One of these parts may have some grammatical or idiomatic error in it. Mark the part containing error as your answer. If the sentence is correct as it is, then choose option (e) as your answer.
Q1. Pallav Nadhani is no (A)/ stranger to being (B)/ an entrepreneur (C)/ by a recession. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q2. Centre may issue (A)/ guidelines for lockdown 4.0 (B)/ on tomorrow, plans (C)/ tougher curbs for 30 zones. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q3. People in the Republic of Ireland are (A)/ being advised use face coverings (B)/ on public transport or (C)/ in enclosed indoor public area. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q4. the restrictions on movement introduced (A)/ in Budapest due to the coronavirus (B)/ epidemic will be lifted (C)/ on midnight on Sunday. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q5. Some people applying for universal (A)/ credit for the first time have found (B)/ themselves worse of after losing (C)/ their existing benefit payments. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q6. How can you speak with (A)/ authority about their (B)/ customs when you have (C)/ never lived between them? (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q7. Alex climbed into the car besides (A)/ Carmen and placed his arm (B)/ protectively on the (C)/ back of the seat behind her neck. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q8. Most of the workers, (A)/ who have been at the construction (B)/ site for October, 2019, (C)/ were last paid for the month of January. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q9. Maurice, which he afterwards (A)/ published, along a (B)/ fuller examination (C)/ of the doctrine of the essays. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q10. The Health and Family Welfare ministry has (A)/ stated that there is no need to shut (B)/ hospitals if they suddenly (C)/ come across a Covid-19 positive patient. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q11. In the end, our fundamental challenge is to (A)/ become better individuals, and technology (B)/ offers little help by that front (C)/ it is up to each one of us to solve that for ourselves. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q12. In spite Corona, Tesla intends (A)/ to start manufacturing electric (B)/ cars at its new ‘Gigafactory’ (C)/ in Brandenburg next year. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q13. As he turned, the lights of (A)/ a silent ambulance bounced across the (B)/ long stretch of pasture between (C)/ the highway and the mangled car. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q14. We can trace obligations to Meleager, (A)/ Theocritus, Apollonius Rhodius and (B)/ other Alexandrines, and among earlier writers (C)/ to Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus and others. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q15. Because human ability is distributed (A)/ unevenly and technology multiplies ability of (B)/ the talented, therefore the spread between (C)/ the rich and poor will rise more and more. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Solutions:
S1. Ans. (d)
Sol. Here, ‘by’ should be replaced with ‘during’ because we use ‘by’ as a preposition of time to denote point of time, whereas, ‘during’ denotes at some point of time in the course of some action.
S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. Remove ‘on’ before ‘tomorrow’ because we do not use preposition with ‘today, tomorrow, yesterday, the following day, etc.’
S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘to’ should be used after ‘advised’ to make a contextually meaningful sentence.
S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘at’ should be used at the place of ‘on’ because ‘at’ is used with ‘dawn, dusk, daybreak, etc’.
S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘off’ should be used at the place of ‘of’ because ‘worse off’ means in a less advantageous position; less fortunate or prosperous.
S6. Ans. (d)
Sol. Here between should be replace with ‘among’ because ‘between’ is used when we are discussing about two things or some definite things but ‘among’ is used for more than two or undefined numbers.
S7. Ans. (a)
Sol. Here ‘besides’ should be replaced with ‘beside’ because ‘besides’ means in addition to; apart from. And, ‘beside’ means at the side of; next to.
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, ‘for’ should be replaced with ‘since’ because ‘for’ is used to about an amount of time or space, whereas, ‘since’ is used to refer to a point of time.
S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. Here, ‘along’ should be followed by ‘with’ because ‘along with’ is phrase preposition which means in company with or at the same time as.
S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here we need to remove ‘suddenly’ because ‘come across’ itself means meet suddenly or by chance.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, ‘by’ should be replace with ‘on’ because ‘by’ is used to indicate ‘at the side of, close to or next to’
S12. Ans. (a)
Sol. Here, ‘in spite’ should be followed by ‘of’ because ‘in spite of’ is prepositional phrase which means without being affected by the particular factor mentioned.
S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. Here, ‘of’ should be replaced with ‘off’ because given sentence is talking about the lights of the ambulance.
S14. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, ‘among’ should be replace with ‘amongst’. Although, ‘amongst’ and ‘among’ mean almost same but ‘amongst’ is used before vowel sound and ‘among’ is used before consonant sound.
S15. Ans. (c)
Sol. In the given sentence, ‘therefore’ needs to be removed because ‘because, since, as’ are not followed by ‘therefore/that’s why’.
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