English Language
Error Deduction Practice Questions – Set 36
Directions (1 – 15): A sentence, divieded in 5
parts, is given below. One or more parts of the sentence may have an error in
grammer. You have to choose from the given options, the set of parts that do
NOT have an error and are grammatically correct.
1. Plto once resigned not only (A) / as the
chthonic figure of Greek (B) / and Roman mythology but also in the sky and the
hearts (C) / of schoolchildren as a planet, equal in status to larger objects
(D) / on the solar system such as Earth, Jupiter and Satrun (E).
a) ABCD
b) ABCE
c) ACDE
d) Other than given options
2. Maternal exposre to politicians (A) / can lead
to developmental (B) / problems, a low birth weight, and prematre birth, (C) /
and people with long-term exposre to pollution had (D) / a higher lifetime risk
of cancer, heart desease, and strok. (E)
a) ABDE
b) ABCE
c) BCDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
3. The members of the IRDA are (A)/ appointed by
the Central Government (B)/ from amongest persons of ability, integrity and
standing who have (C) / knowledge or experience in the life insurance, general
insurance, actarial science, (D) / finance, economic laws, accontancy and
administration (E).
a) ABCD
b) ABDE
c) BCDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
4. The obvious solution is to put in place
multiple processes (A) / that encourages employees to recape key messages and
map out (B) / in words and pictograms (C) / who works for whom, with what (D) /
responsibilites, and who will take which steps and when (E).
a) ABCE
b) ACDE
c) ABCD
d) Other than given options
e) No error
5. When analysis and survey results indicated what
they were (A) / and when the investor was (B) / experienced in the relevant
industry (C) / giving him or her knowledge that could add value (D) / the
company was likely to move on to due diligence (E).
a) ABCE
b) BCDE
c) ACDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
6. Calling India’s stock market overcrowded and
its economy limping (A) / due to drop in infrastructure investment, (B) /
Nomura Asset Management has said that there (C) / is still something about Asia’s
third largest economy (D)/ because of which it can’t stop buying the nation’s
shares (E).
a) ABCD
b) BCDE
c) ABCE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
7. If you’re over 50, a study published last month
in the British Journal (A) / suggests the best results come from combining
aerobic and resistance exercise, (B) / which could include anything from
high-intensity interval training, (C) / like the 7-minute workout, to dynamic
flow yoga which intersperses (D) / strength – building poses like planks and
push-ups with heart-pumping dnce-like moves (E).
a) BCDE
b) ACDE
c) ABCD
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
8. The exact natre of our evolutionary
relationships (A) / have been the subject of debate and investigation (B) /
since the great British naturalist Charles Darwin published (C) / his
monumental books on (D) / the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man
(1871). (E)
a) ABCE
b) ABCD
c) ACDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
9. A new restaurant in Mumbai employs an
exclusively hearing – and speech – imparied staff, (A) / thus opening up new
opportunities to a normally shelter part of Indian society, (B) / not only
giving them a new form of income (C) / but also putting them into contace (D) /
with people they might not usally encounter (E).
a) ABDE
b) BCDE
c) ABCE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
10. Cultural relativism stresses that different
social contexts (A) / give rise to different norms and values and as such, (B)
/ practices like polygamy, bullfighting and monarhy should be (C) / examined
within the particular context of the (D) / cultures in which they are founded
(E).
a) ABCE
b) ABCD
c) ABDE
d) other than given combinations
e) No error
11. While traditionally, Dalits had not been
allowed to own land, (A) Zode now owns six acers and a farmhouse (B) / in the
posh Alibaug locality in Raigad district of Maharashtra, (C) / the current
value of which is over Rs.5 crore, (D) / and most of which Zode converted into
a mango orchade (E)
a) ACDE
b) BCDE
c) ABCD
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
12. No incident of violance or arson was reported
by the police (A) / on Saturday morning, but the hills remained (B) / on the
edge, a day after agitators went on a rampage, (C) / setting fire a Railway
Protection Force office, (D) / a state-run library and a police outpost in
Darjeeling (E).
a) ABDE
b) ABCD
c) BCDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) no error
13. The growing number of coeducational colleges
(A) / and universities at the end (B) / of the ninteenth century (C) / worked
actually against the development of women faculty (D) / since women were only
very rarely hired to teach men. (E)
a) ACDE
b) ABDE
c) BCDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
14. China has pushed back against a wave of
international censure over (A) / the death of democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo,
telling the world to (B) stay out of its domestic affairs and (C) labelled the
2010 decision to award (D) / the late activist a Nobel peace prize a blasphemy
(E).
a) ABCE
b) BCDE
c) ACDE
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
15. According to the police, the three men,
residents of the Israeli Arab town (A) / of Umm al-Fahm, which were armed with
home made Carlo machine guns (B) / and a pistol, opened fire on police near (C)
/ the gate before fleeing back into the heart of (D) / the compound which
houses the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. (E)
a) ACDE
b) ABCE
c) ABCD
d) Other than given combinations
e) No error
Answers with Explanations:
1. A) The error is in the preposition ‘on’
in (e) – ‘larger objects in the
soloar system’ will be the correct usage.
Chthonic means ‘relating
to the underworld’
2. B) The
sentence is in the present tense. In the second part of the sentence, the verb
becomes ‘had’, which is the past tense, and that is the error. ‘had’ should be
replaced with have.
3. A) The
sentence seeks to detail all the disciplines in the which the person needs to
be knowledgebel / experienced. In (E), ‘laws’ is not a subject, ‘law’ is, hence
‘laws’ should be change to ‘law’.
4. B) The
subject here is ‘process’ which is a plural word and hence we need a plural
form of verb as well, i.e., ‘encorage’.
5. D) The
last part of the sentence is dependent on the initial part, in a way like ‘if
one thing happens only than the other thing will happen’, and so we need a
similar word so that this sense can be highlited, and hence the correction
would be ‘more likely’.
6. E)
7. E)
8. C) The
singular subject ‘nature’ will take the verb ‘has’. Therefore, ‘have’ in (B) is
incorrect.
9. D) The
word ‘shelter’ in (B) is incorrect. The apt word would be a past participle
wsed as an adjective. ‘Sheltered’ is appropriate and it means protected from outsideinfluences.
10. B)
The past tense of ‘find’ is ‘found’. Since the (D) part of the sentence is in
passive voic, ‘they are found’ will be used. ‘founded’ meand ‘established’
which is not as per the context of the sentence.
11. B)
The use of ‘had not been’ in the past continuous tense indicates that the
incident happened in the past, but actually it is still the case, so the
correct usage should be ‘were not’
12. D)
We either use ‘set fire to’ or ‘set afire’, both having the same meaning. Here,
in the sentence, since there is no ‘to’ after ‘set fire’, hence that is in
error, and we should se ‘setting afire’ instead.
13. D) ‘Actually
worked’ will replace ‘worked actually’, which is an error of misplaced adverb.
14. A) The
presence of ‘labelled’ is wrong, since it creates an error of paralled
construction. It should be replace with ‘labelling’ to go along with ‘teling’.
15. A) The
reference is to ‘the men’ here and so, ‘who’ will replace ‘which’.
