Directions (1-15): Each question below contains four
different sentences. Spot the sentence which contains a grammatical or
contextual error. If all the sentences appear to be correct, then choose option
(e) All are correct as your answer.
Q1.
(a) A fan invaded the ground during India-Sri Lanka Test at
the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru during a break forced by a medical issue
to Kusal Mendis.
(b) She always liked to watch a good tearjerker when she
was feeling sad so she could have a good cry.
(c) Mumbai has announced a Climate Action Plan to eliminate
carbon emissions on 2050.
(d) The man made a potion, but he accidently ruined it with
too many harsh chemicals.
(e) All are correct
Q2.
(a) Acting out of civil duty, the voters refused to allow
the possibly destructive pipeline to be placed in their city.
(b) A student from Himachal Pradesh, who returned to India
from Ukraine, has sought the Central Government’s intervention in helping the
students complete their medical degrees in the country.
(c) The plumber was able to wrench the pipe from the wall
by twisting it violently with the tools.
(d) Amazon is temporarily relocating employees from a
downtown Seattle office amid an increase in violent crime in the area.
(e) All are correct
Q3.
(a) China on Sunday locked down one of its biggest cities
with 17 million residents after 66 new COVID-19 infections were reported there.
(b) A military drone that apparently flown from Ukraine and
crashed in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, was carrying a bomb, Croatia’s Defence
Minister Mario Banožić said on Sunday.
(c) Using a knife, the boy tried to inscribe his name onto
the metal table.
(d) The woman worked two jobs in order to remove herself
from the mire of poverty.
(e) All are correct
Q4.
(a) A Russian court has ruled that Peppa Pig’s trademarks
can be used by Russian businesses without punishment.
(b) World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen lost
to world number 20 Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final at German Open in Mülheim an
der Ruhr on Sunday.
(c) Without concerted determination from lawmakers, the
bill never become a law.
(d) Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will immediately take up
corrective measures to revamp and re-strengthen the party, AICC general
secretary KC Venugopal said after Congress Working Committee meeting on Sunday.
(e) All are correct
Q5.
(a) The hybrid plant has features similar to those found in
a rose and a carnation.
(b) Minister on Sunday said the state has lost ₹221.17
crore for cybercrimes in the last three years and only 21% of the amount has
been recovered.
(c) Hailey’s voice was filled with sarcasm when she
congratulated her rival on defeating her in competition.
(d) Sixteen councillors of the Amritsar Municipal
Corporation have joined AAP, the party tweeted from its official account on
Sunday.
(e) All are correct
Q6.
(a) Russia has notified Instagram users in the country that
the service will cease from midnight on Sunday, advising them to move their
photos and videos from Instagram.
(b) With your assiduous attempt at learning Spanish, I
think you will master the language in no time.
(c) The movie’s plot was so abysmal the critic left the
theater after five minutes.
(d) Days after its poll debacle in five states, Congress Working
Committee on Sunday decided that Sonia Gandhi will continue as the party
president.
(e) All are correct
Q7.
(a) Sanctions imposed on Russia have frozen around $300
billion of $640 billion that Russia had in its gold and forex reserves, Russian
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Sunday.
(b) An oligarch is a member of a small group with power.
(c) Ukrainian President said that nearly 1.25 lakh people
have been evacuated via humanitarian corridors from conflict zones in Ukraine
so till.
(d) Japanese researchers suggested that meteorites that
helped form Earth may have formed in the outer solar system.
(e) All are correct
Q8.
(a) Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called for
an all-party conference on March 23 over the current economic situation in the
country, according to local media reports.
(b) Russian forces has been accused of using illegal
phosphorus weapons in Ukraine.
(c) The identity of an organism is determined by its
genetic structure.
(d) A 24-year-old pilot named Mahasweta Chakraborty flew
800 Indian students back to safety amid the Ukraine war.
(e) All are correct
Q9.
(a) The City Council of Ukraine’s Mariupol on Sunday said
that the last reserves of food and water are running out amid a Russian
blockade.
(b) The detective made an important observation when he
noticed the broken glass was outside the window.
(c) India beat Germany 3-0 in a shootout in second match of
their two-legged tie as both teams were tied at 1-1 after 60-minute regulation
time at FIH Women’s Pro Hockey League in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
(d) Hong Kong researchers said pet hamsters can pass
COVID-19 to humans and that them were most likely responsible for city’s Delta
variant outbreak.
(e) All are correct
Q10.
(a) Russian President Vladimir Putin is suffering from
“roid rage” possibly from a steroid treatment for cancer, reports
said quoting intelligence sources.
(b) Potential energy is a core concept of any physics-based
discussion, and one of the most influential variables in the formulas that
describe our known universe.
(c) Team India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has set the
record for smashing the fastest fifty by an Indian in Test cricket history,
achieving the feat off 28 deliveries against Sri Lanka in the Day-Night Test in
Bengaluru.
(d) The patient must wean his body off alcohol before he
can leave the hospital.
(e) All are correct
Q11.
(a) Chinese scientists have built a “artificial
moon” research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity
environments using magnetism.
(b) The princess continued to wave to the crowd from the
top of her castle.
(c) Quantum mechanics is a subfield of physics that
describes the behaviour of particles — atoms, electrons, photons and almost
everything in the molecular and sub molecular realm.
(d) Ex-India captain Virat Kohli’s Test average has dropped
below 50 for the first time after 40 matches and over four years.
(e) All are correct
Q12.
(a) Russian agents threatened Google’s top executive last
year to remove an app designed to help register protest votes against President
Vladimir Putin within 24 hours, or risk going to prison, The Washington Post
reported.
(b) The Bengaluru Traffic Police have issued an advisory
for parking of vehicles near the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in view of the India-Sri
Lanka match till March 16.
(c) By creating ice from tiny droplets only a few hundred
molecules in size, researchers have pushed water’s freezing point lower than
ever before and changed what we know about how ice forms.
(d) Winning Teacher of the Year was a watershed moment in
my career.
(e) All are correct
Q13.
(a) Scientists from New Zealand, Japan said unusual
toothpick-like marks on teeth of wild Japanese monkeys may have significant
implications on human evolution.
(b) The kind girl cared about her own health as well as the
well-being of the others around her.
(c) Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a
particular group of people, encompasses language, religion, cuisine, social
habits, music and arts.
(d) US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday
proposed stringent rules to control and lessen interstate smog pollution from
power plants and industries
(e) All are correct
Q14.
(a) The price of the ice cream depends on its weight and
the heavy of the toppings.
(b) The Blue Blob is an undefined area of the North
Atlantic Ocean located south of Iceland and Greenland.
(c) The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA)
plans to launch a pilot project of on-street paid parking in the city in an
effort to resolve the parking woes, officials said.
(d) A buffet was laid out for nearly 60 elephants in Thailand’s
eastern Chonburi province on Sunday as country marked its annual ‘Elephant
Day’.
(e) All are correct
Q15.
(a) Sustainable products, including leaf tableware and
vegan coffees, were displayed at ‘The Business Women Expo 2022’, which is being
held in Hyderabad.
(b) A weird little sound coming from the vent scared the
curious children back into their rooms.
(c) Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray on
Sunday announced detailed plans to make Mumbai a net-zero carbon emitter by
2050, making it the first South Asian city to do so.
(d) Rough speaking, the Middle East encompasses the Arabian
peninsula as well as the eastern Mediterranean.
(e) All are correct
S1. Ans (c)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (c).
The correct preposition to be used is by
2050.
S2. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (a).
Civic will replace civil.
Civic is an adjective which describes an object or person
as having to do with a city or town, or that the object was created or came
from a city or town.
Civil is an adjective describing an object or a person
relating to citizenship or a citizen (i.e., a member of the community) as
opposed to the military or church leadership.
S3. Ans (b)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (b).
Flew is the correct form of tense to be used here.
S4. Ans (c)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (c).
The sentence is lacking the presence of will.
Hence, it will be: the bill will never become a law
S5. Ans (b)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (b).
Lost to is the right usage. It means something that
has been taken away or cannot be recovered.
Hence, the correction is: …..the state has lost ₹221.17
crore to cybercrimes….
S6. Ans (e)
Sol. All of the given sentences are grammatically and
contextually correct.
S7. Ans (c)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (c).
So far should be used here.
It means up to this time.
S8. Ans (b)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (b).
Have been is the correction to be made since the noun
(Russian forces) is plural.
S9. Ans (d)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (d).
‘They’ is the right choice of pronouns to be used making
it: that they were most likely responsible for city’s Delta variant
outbreak.
S10. Ans (e)
Sol. All of the given sentences are grammatically and
contextually correct.
S11. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (a).
An is the article to be used with artificial.
S12. Ans (e)
Sol. All of the given sentences are grammatically and
contextually correct.
S13. Ans (c)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (c).
Encompassing is the right word to be used and it
means to include several different things.
S14. Ans (a)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (a).
Heavy should be replaced with heaviness.
S15. Ans (d)
Sol. The error lies in sentence (d).
The correction to be made is roughly speaking.
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