Error spotting practice questions for SBI PO 2017
Directions (1 – 10): Read each sentence to find out whether
there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the
sentence. Mark the number f that part with error as your answer. If there is no
error, mark (d). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
1. I shall write (a) / to you (b) / when
I shall reach Bangalore (c) / No error (d)
2. One of these days (a) / I will be
going to (b) / confront you with incontrovertible evidence (c) / No error (d)
3. The article (a) / should not exceed
(b) / more than five hundred words (c) / No error (d)
4. He was honourably (a) / acquitted
from (b) / the charge (c) / No error (d)
5. If I knew (a) / that my friend had
planned to visit the town that day, (b) / I would have made his stay
comfortable. (c) / No error (d)
6. Neither the famine (a) / or the
subsequent fire (b) / was able to destroy the spirit of the people. (c) / No
error (d)
7. No sooner did I open the door (a) /
when the rain, heavy and stormy, rushed in, (b) / making us shiver from head to
foot (c) / No error (d)
8. I do not understand (a) / why he is
(b) / so angry at me. (c) / No error (d)
9. Mr. Sunil Pawar, our representative
(a) / he will attend the meeting (b) / on our behalf (c) / No error (d)
10. After opening the door (a) / we
entered into the room (b) / next to the kitchen (c) / No error (d)
Answers:
1. (c) ‘Shall’ is redundant in the
last part of the conditional sentence.
2. (b) ‘I am going
to’ is the correct phrase.
3. (c) ‘Exceed’ makes the phrase ‘more than’
redundant. The sentence should read as ‘The article should not exceed five
hundred words.’ It would also be correct to say. ‘The article should not be
more than five hundred words’.
4. (b) One is
acquitted ‘of’ a charge, not ‘from’.
5. (a) ‘If I had
known’ is the correct beginning. ‘I would have made his stay comfortable’ bears
reference to some time that has gone; ‘If I had known’ goes farther back than
that time (so past perfect tense is to be used).
6. (b) With
‘neither’ it is ‘nor’ that must be used; with ‘either’, it should be ‘or’. The
pairs ‘neither…. nor’ and ‘either … or’ serve as correlative conjunctions.
7. (b) ‘No sooner’
should be followed by ‘than’ and not ‘when’. The pair ‘no sooner… than’ is a
subordinate conjunction of time. It indicates that the second event occurs
immediately after the first one.
8. (c) ‘Angry with’
is the correct usage. ‘Angry at’ will apply if the anger is at some situation,
such as a delay or dereliction of duty.
9. (b) The ‘he’ in
the second part of the sentence is not needed as the subject- Mr Sunil
Pawar-is already mentioned.
10. (b) One enters
‘another’ room; not ‘into another’ room. ‘Enter’ itself means ‘go in’ or ‘come
in’ so ‘into’ is not necessary here.
