English Quiz (Sentence Correction) for SBI PO Mains
Directions (1 – 10): In the following
questions, a sentence has been given with some of its part highlighted. To make the sentence grammatically and idiomatically correct,
you have to replace the highlighted part with the
correct alternative given below. If the sentence is correct as it is, give 5)
as your answer (ie No correction required).
1. Unlike earlier, no one can now complain
that the Government is not doing its bit in going for black money.
A) bit in going with
B) a bit in going against
C) bit to go by
D) bit in going after
E) No correction required
2. The strength of India-Afghanistan
relations was on full display at the 6th
Heart of Asia Conference in Amritsar.
A) on fully display in the
B) fully displayed in the
C) in full display at the
D) about full display at the
E) No correction required
3. If she lives in a corrupt society, she
cannot easily rise about the prevailing
corruption.
A) above
B) over
C) before
D) upon
E) No correction required
4. Her mother thought that she get the appointment letter.
A) will get
B) gotten
C) has received
D) would get
E) No correction required
5. For Mother Teresa, the journey to saint has not been a smooth
one.
A) of saint has
B) to sainthood has
C) in sainthood has
D) on saintlyhood has
E) No correction required
6. The National Intelligence Council of the
United State, before a new administration takes over, usually provides a major
assessment of the forces and choices that have been shaping the world.
A) Which has been shaping
B) Shaping
C) That took a shape in
D) That shapes over
E) No improvement
7. Since the country meets
the needs and aspirations of the young people, the expected economic
dividend can turn into a political disaster as well.
A) If not
B) Unless
C) However
D) Of then
E) No improvement
8. The failure of the government to create
yearly as many as 10 million jobs to accommodate this increasingly young labour
force in a society riven with social discrimination can
radicalise a large section of country’s youth.
A) Of
B) By
C) In
D) Between
E) No improvement
9. India’s youth unemployment crisis is
fast seriously acute becoming.
A) Becoming to acute seriously.
B) Acutely serious becoming
C) Becoming seriously acute
D) Acute and serious becoming
E) No improvement
10. A team of experts who have visited the
area where the three-day event was held last year has said, "Restoring the
flood plain will also cost about 42 crores and had taken extensive effort."
A) Took extensive efforts
B) Took extensive effort
C) Take extensive effort
D) Taken extensive efforts
E) No improvement
Answers:
1. D) ‘go
after’ something means to try to get something that other people are also
competing for: Our company is going after the software market in western
Europe.
Unlike
earlier, no one can now complain that the Government is not doing its bit
in going after (getting back) black money.
2. E) The
strength of India-Afghanistan relations was on full display at the 6th Heart of
Asia Conference in Amritsar. The sentence needs no correction!
There’s an
Egyptian art collection on display (= being shown) at the museum at the moment.
3. A) If you rise
above a difficulty or problem, you manage not to let it affect you :
She did her best to rise above her last year’s shocking defeat. Similarly,
If she lives
in a corrupt society, she cannot easily rise above the
prevailing corruption.
4. D) Her
mother thought (pat simple) that she would get the
appointment letter.
5. B) For
Mother Teresa, the journey to sainthood (her adopting the way
of life as a saint) has not been a smooth one.
6. B) The tense
to be used here is present continuous tense without any determiner. The
sentence clearly mentions that the NIC does the assessment as a regular
activity, that is before a new administration takes over. Thus option 2 is the
correct answer. It conveys the correct sense of time.
7. B) 'Since'
does not make any sense here and thus needs to be replaced.The correct
conjunction here would be 'unless' which fits here grammatically and also
logically. Thus option 2 is the correct answer.
8. E) The
correct preposition to be used after the verb 'riven' is 'with' and not any
other preposition.
Thus the
sentence needs no improvement.
9. C) The
correct way of framing this part of the sentence is the verb 'becoming' should
be written first followed by the adverb 'seriously' followed by the adjective
'acute'. Thus option 3 is the correct answer.
10. C) The
tense 'had taken' is in past perfect tense and needs to be replaced with simple
present tense 'take' to make the sentence correct. The word 'effort' should be
written in singular form. Thus option 3 is the correct answer.
