TOPIC: Error Correction
Directions (1-15): Read each sentence to find
out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error
in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of
that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is (e). (Ignore errors
of punctuation, if any.)
Q1. Amid
the prediction of heavy rainfall (A)/ and thunderstorms, an weather (B)/ department
has issued a yellow alert in (C)/ Dehradun for the next 24 hours. (D) No error
(E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q2. Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel (A)/ told
Bloomberg in an interview (B)/ that he plans to donate (C)/ the bulk of him
family wealth. (D) No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q3. The ruins of a vast ancient (A)/ civilization
that thrived from (B)/ 500 for 1400 AD have been (C)/ discovered in the
Bolivian Amazon. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q4. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi after (A)/ inaugurating the drone festival in Delhi
said, (B)/ “Use of drones will rise in sector such as (C)/ agriculture,
sports, defence and disaster management.” (D) No error (E)
(a) C
(b) B
(c) D
(d) A
(e) No error
Q5. After analysing the bones of dinosaurs that
indicated (A)/ how many the individual animals breathed in last hour of their
life, researchers have (B)/ concluded that most dinosaurs were warm-blooded. (D)
No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q6. After the Maharashtra government’s
directive, (A)/ Pune’s Udachiwadi village has implemented (B)/ a ban on
funerary customs linked to widows such (C)/ as wiping off the vermilion and
breaking their bangles. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q7. US State Secretary Antony Blinken said (A)/ Russia
& President Vladimir Putin “pose a (B)/ present threat”, but
America sees (C)/ China as a long-term threat to globe stability. (D) No error
(E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q8. Social media platform Meta, formerly
Facebook, (A)/ has started sending out notification to users (B)/ about privacy
policy update which it will roll (C)/ out from July 26, the company said on
Thursday. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q9. Taiwan and the United States could (A)/ begin
talks to deep trade and economic (B)/ ties “in a few weeks,” two
senior Taiwanese (C)/ government officials told CNN on Friday. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q10. The number of buildings been (A)/ knocked
down must be reduced (B)/ because demolition and rebuilding (C)/ adds to
climate change, MPs say. (D) No error
(E)
(a) D
(b) B
(c) A
(d) C
(e) No error
Q11. Geetanjali Shree has (A)/ become the first
Indian (B)/ writer to win the (C)/ International Booker Prize. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q12. People fleeing Afghanistan was (A)/ the
largest group among (B)/ migrants crossing the Channel in (C)/ the early part
of 2022. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
Q13. The head of a World Bank has (A)/ warned
that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (B)/ could cause a global recession as the (C)/
price of food, energy and fertiliser jump. (D) No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q14. The
war in Ukraine has (A)/ highlighted how countries (B)/ need to put values
before profits, (B)/ Nato’s chief has warmed. (D) No error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No error
Q15. The Covid-19 (A)/ pandemic have been (B)/ good
for the (C)/ wallets of the wealthy. (D) No error (E)
(a) B
(b) A
(c) D
(d) C
(e) No error
SOLUTIONS:
Sol. The error lies in the part B of the
sentence.
Article ‘the’ needs to be used with ‘weather’.
S2. Ans (d)
Sol. The error lies in the part D of the
sentence.
The correct preposition to be used here is
‘his’.
S3. Ans (d)
Sol. The error lies in the part C of the
sentence.
The correction needs to be: 500 to 1400 AD.
S4. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in the part C of the
sentence.
‘Sector’ needs to be plural, i.e., sectors.
S5. Ans (b)
Sol. The error lies in the part B of the
sentence.
‘Much’ needs to be used in place of ‘many’.
S6. Ans (e)
Sol. There is no error in the given sentence.
S7. Ans (c)
Sol. The error lies in the part D of the
sentence.
‘Global’ should be used here.
S8. Ans (e)
Sol. There is no error in the given sentence.
S9. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in the part B of the
sentence.
‘Deepen’, the verb, needs to be used here.
S10. Ans (c)
Sol. The error lies in the part A of the
sentence.
‘Being’ needs to be placed here.
S11. Ans (e)
Sol. There is no error in the given sentence.
S12. Ans (b)
Sol. The error lies in the part A of the
sentence.
‘Were’ is supposed to be used in place of ‘was’.
S13. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in the part A of the
sentence.
‘The head of the World Bank’ is the correction
that needs to be made.
S14. Ans (d)
Sol. The error lies in the part D of the
sentence.
‘Warmed’ is contextually incorrect.
‘Warned’ is supposed to be used here to make the
sentence meaningful.
S15. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in the part B of the
sentence.
‘Has been’ needs to be used here.
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