SBI Clerk Mains Daily English Mock 24th August Miscellaneous Practice Set

SBI Clerk Mains English Language Quiz

Is your DREAM to get selected in SBI Clerk 2020 recruitment? Well, then you must speed up your preparation as the Main exam which is the final step towards selection will soon be announced. So, students should utilize this time intelligently. The English Language is one of the subjects you’ll need to deal with and to help you keep your preparation up to the mark, here we provide you with a questionnaire of English Language to crack SBI Clerk Main. For other subjects, you can check the SBI Clerk Mains Study Plan.

Directions (1-8): Which of the
phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below each statement should replace the
phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the
sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction is required’, mark (e) as
the answer.

Q1. Ahead of
the Bihar Assembly poll, the Election Commission approved guidelines for conduction polls during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(a)
guideline for conduction polls

(b)guidelines
for conducting polls

(d)
guidelines for conducing polls

(e) No
correction is required

Q2. Their
repeated attempts to share their concerns
over the loss of communication and information with the organisers elicited no
response.

(a)attempt
to share their

(b)attempts
to share there

(d)attempting
to share there

(e) No
correction is required

Q3. Online registration for the monsoon semester at JNU began with the
university allowing students to take provisional registration in view off the prevailing pandemic.

(a)off the
prevail pandemic

(b)of the
prevailed pandemic

(d)of the
prevailing pandemic

(e) No
correction is required

Q4. Terming
the government’s present stance “callous abdication of its responsibility”,
DUTA demanded it to resolves the
issuance responsibly.

(a)resolved
the issue responsibly

(b)resolves
the issue responsibly

(d)resolve
the issuance responsibly

(e) No
correction is required

Q5. A Bench
of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan note that the report stated that the “entire police action was not
handled very professionally”.

(a)noting
that the report

(b) noted
that the report

(d)notes
that the report

(e) No
correction is required

Q6. The
House wasadjourn thrice amidst an
uproar over the Opposition’s charges of negligence and heated arguments with
the treasury members.

(a)was
adjourned thrice amid

(b)was
adjourn thrice amidst

(d)was adjourns
thrice amidst

(e) No
correction is required

Q7. Even as the world is reel from the impact of
the pandemic, India is recovering with fresh energy and making bold plans for
the future.

(a)the world
is reeling of

(b)the world
is realizing from

(d)the world
is reeling from

(e) No
correction is required

Q8. The
risks extend beyond mortality as the economic consequences of the current
pandemic are likely to be more
concentrated between the low wage earners.

(a)be most
concentrated between

(b)be more
concentrating among

(d)be most
concentrating among

(e) No
correction is required

Directions (9-15): In each of the
following questions given below, sentences are given with some bold words which
may contain errors. Below each of the sentences, a table is given with two
columns in which column ‘A’ contains the list of bold words, and in column ‘B’
the suggested corrections are listed. You have to choose the best alternate
among the four given options. If no correction is required against the given
bold words, mark (e). i.e. “None of the above” as your answer.

Q9. The
crisis of inadequate grants in all
the 28 Delhi government-funded and aided colleges of DU has persisted for over a year due to the tackle between the university
administration and the Delhi government over the issue of formation of governing bodies.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1)Inadequate	(5) Inadequacy
(2) Persisted	(6) Perforated
(3) Tackle	(7) Tussle
(4) Formation	(8) Forming

(a) Both (1)
– (5) and (4) – (8)

(b) (1) –
(5)

(d) Both (b)
and (c)

(e) None of the
above

Q10. Mr.
Lekhi farther stated that the
protests at the university were not peaceful,
including deduction of private and
public property and it was a mask for something far grave and serious.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1)Farther	(5) Further
(2) Peaceful	(6)Pieceful
(3) Deduction	(7) Destruction
(4) Grave	(8) Graves

(a) (2) –
(6)

(b) (1) –
(5)

(d) Both (b)
and (c)

(e) None of
the above

Q11.
Focusing on the looser description
of the pandemic as a leveller,
preliminary data and early indirect evidence
from several parts of the world indicate that the incidence of the disease is not class-neutral.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1)Looser	(5) Loosened
(2)Leveller	(6) Levels
(3) Evidence	(7)Evident
(4) Incidence	(8) Incidents

(a) Both (1)
– (5) and (3) – (7)

(b) (2) –
(6)

(d) (3) –
(7)

(e) None of
the above

Q12. A
two-thirds majority in the
legislature is indeeda mandate for
constitutional change, but the winner ought to decide whether the proposed
change would bring about reform or impairment;
whether it would strengthen democratic institutions or weakened them.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1) Majority	(5) Majorities
(2)Mandate	(6) Mandatory
(3) Impairment	(7) Impairing
(4) Weakened	(8) Weaken

(a) (4) –
(8)

(b) (2) –
(6)

(d) Both (2)
– (6) and (3-7)

(e) None of
the above

Q13. After a
stringent lockdown for two months
and the efforts of the country’s sufficient
public health sector, aided by the military, Sri Lanka felt relatively fit to hold the
twice-postponed parliamentary
elections on August 5.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1)Stringent	(5)Stringing
(2) Sufficient	(6) Efficient
(3) Relatively	(7) Relativity
(4) Parliamentary	(8) Parliamentarian

(a) (3) –
(7)

(b) (2) –
(6)

(d) Both (1)
– (5) and (4) – (8)

(e) None of
the above

Q14.
Increasingly, many employers across
estates are asking workers to stay at home once every few days, so they don’t have to pay the monthly inventive tied to a minimum number of
days’ mandating work, according to
labourers.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1) Employers	(5)Employars
(2) Few	(6) Other
(3) Inventive	(7) Incentive
(4) Mandating	(8) Mandatory

(a) (4) –
(8)

(b) (2) –
(6)

(d) (1) –
(5), (4) – (8) and (3) – (7)

(e) None of
the above

Q15. If
PSBs, which dominate the banking
system, fail to function property in
the absence of state capital support, India will face a deepen credit crunch, hampering
economic recovery.

Column (A)	Column (B)
(1)Dominate	(5) Dominates
(2) Property	(6)Properly
(3) Deepen	(7) Deepening
(4) Hampering	(8) Hampers

(a) (4) –
(8)

(b) (2) –
(6)

(d) (1) –
(5), (2) – (6) and (3-7)

(e) None of
the above

SOLUTIONS:

S1. Ans. (b)

Sol. “guidelines for conducting polls” should
replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically
correct. Hence, option (b) is the
right answer choice.

S2. Ans. (e)

Sol. The
sentence is correct. Hence, option (e) is
the right answer choice.

S3. Ans. (d)

Sol. “of the prevailing pandemic”should
replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S4. Ans. (c)

Sol. “resolve
the issue responsibly” should replace the phrase printed in bold in the
sentence to make it grammatically
correct. Hence, option (c) is the
right answer choice.

S5. Ans. (b)

Sol. “noted that the report” should replace
the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to
make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.

S6. Ans. (a)

Sol. “was adjourned thrice amid” should
replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S7. Ans. (d)

Sol. “the world is reeling from” should
replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S8. Ans. (c)

Sol. “be most concentrated among” should
replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S9. Ans. (c)

Sol. 3-7 is
the ideal replacement to make the sentence grammatically and contextually
correct. Hence, option (c) is the
right answer choice.

S10. Ans.
(d)

Sol. Both
(b) and (c): 1-5 and 3-7 is the ideal replacement to make the sentence
grammatically and contextually correct. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S11. Ans.
(e)

Sol. There
is no correction is required against the given bold words. Hence, option (e) is the right answer choice.

S12. Ans.
(a)

Sol. 4-8 is
the ideal replacement to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Hence, option (a) is the right
answer choice.

S13. Ans.
(b)

Sol. 2-6 is
the ideal replacement to make the sentence grammatically and contextually
correct. Hence, option (b) is the
right answer choice.

S14. Ans.
(c)

Sol. Both
3-7 and 4-8 is the ideal replacement to make the sentence grammatically and
contextually correct. Hence, option (c) is
the right answer choice.

S15. Ans.
(c)

Sol. Both
2-6 and 3-7 is the ideal replacement to make the sentence grammatically and contextually
correct. Hence, option (c) is the
right answer choice.