English
Language Error Spotting – Set 39 (New Pattern)
Directions (1 – 10): A sentence was given and it
was broken into 5 parts. You have to check the correct part and then form an
arrangement. If there was no error then choose “No Error” and if your
arrangement does not match with the option then choose “ No arrangement matches”.
1.With sale of branded or premium petrol becoming
almost nil (A)/ due to high duties (B)/ a government appointed panel has
recommended (C)/ slashing excise duty to make (D)/them at par with regular
fuel. (E).
A) ABDE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDCA
2.Road developers unable to (A)/ complete their
(B)/projects on time (C)/will not be
(D)/ awarded new ones. (E)
A) ABCE
B) CEDA
C) No Error
D) BDCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
3. A question worth to ask is that (A)/ whether
the National (B)/Awards represent (C)/ Pan-Indian cinema or is the (D)/focus on
mainstream films only. (E)
A) ABDE
B) CBDE
C) No Error
D) EBCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
4. The youth (A)/ did not dare (B)/ to venture
with the sea (C)/ as it (D)/was high tide. (E)
A) ABCE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDBA
E) No Arrangement Matches
5.The band have been (A)/ performing at many (B)/
cause oriented concerts to encourage(C)/people to come forward and lend (D)/their support to the noble cause.
(E)
A) CBDE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
6.A young sales manager (A)/ who is about to
resign his job (B)/ despite his success (C)/ in the organization. (D).
A) ABD
B) CBD
C) No Error
D) DCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
7.After my interview (A)/ by the selection(B)/
panel I was waiting(C)/ for a response (D)/ but they did not revert back. (E)
A) ABDE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
8.Further trials have added weight on (A)/ these
findings, and an expert panel (B)/ concluded there was no evidence to recommend
(C)/betacarotenene supplement for the general
population, (D)/and strong evidence to recommend that smokers avoid
it.(E)
A) ABDE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
9.Product planners, in the production (A)/ units
work intimately with (B)/ programme managers to defining (C)/ new ideas for
(D)/ product or product features. (E)
A) ABDE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDCA
E) No Arrangement Matches
10.After forty years of trying to (A)/ understand
why asbestos causes cancer (B)/ researchers have now finally (C)/ unraveled the
mystery. (D)/ No error (E)
A) ABDE
B) CBDA
C) No Error
D) EDBA
E) No Arrangement Matches
11. A) According to the
procedures of the UNFCCC, the meetings in Bonn / B) will include the session of
COP-23, the 13th session of the Conference / C) of the Parties serving as the
meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto / D) Protocol (CMP 13) and the second part of the first session of
the COP / E) serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement.
A) ABCD
B) BCDE
C) ABED
D) DCAE
E) All are Correct
12. A) The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) / B) has therefore undertaken
the task of preparing a special / C) report on the impacts of a warming of
1.5°C / D) above pre-industrial levels and the / E) global responses needed to
achieve these.
A) ABCD
B) BCDE
C) CDEA
D) DEAB
E) All are Correct
13. A) The first such
stock-taking covering all aspects such / B) as mitigation, adaptation
communications, and / C) support for implementation is expected to take / D)
place in 2023, but meetings to prepare for this / E) have already begun and
have conclude by 2018.
A) ABCD
B) CDAB
C) DEAB
D) BCDE
E) All are Correct
14. A) According to
earlier reports from the UN and other groups, the NDCs, / B) when added up,
fall short of what is needed to keep global temperature / C) rise below 2°C and
will likely take us about a degree higher. Further, / D) most NDCs are
conditional — they depend on financial and / E) technological support from rich
countries for their full implementation.
A) ABCD
B) BCDE
C) ABDE
D) BCAD
E) All are Correct
15. A) Since the planet
and its inhabitants will still have to deal with / B) the impacts of climate
change, our only hope is to see a greater / C) readiness on the part of all
nations to compromise on their / D) erstwhile hard positions, and sincerity to
make progress in / E) reducing emissions and building climate resiliences in
their development.
A) ABED
B) BCDA
C) ABCD
D) EDAC
E) All are Correct
Answers with Explanations:
1. A) In the C’s part -‘Government appointed panel’ should
be written as ‘panel appointed by government’.
2. C)
3. B) In
the part “A” – ‘Worth’ is followed by present participle form of verb. So,
‘asking’ is suitable.
4. D) In
the part “C” – ‘Venture in’ should be used here to agree to the use of
preposition with a certain word.
5. A) In
the part “A” – The band’ as a whole considered to be singular. So, ‘has’ should
be used in place of ‘have’.
6. D) In
the part “B” – ‘Resign from’ should be used as the correct expression.
7. B) In
the part “E” – ‘Back’ is superfluous when used with ‘revert’.
8. E) In
the part “A” – ‘Weight to’ is the correct expression to be used here.
9. A) In
the part “C” – ” To+V1 is used for ‘purpose’. So, we have to remove ‘defining’
and use ‘define’ here.
10. E) In
the part “B” – ‘Asbestos’ is used in plural form and thus verb should be plural
with it. Hence we should use ‘cause’.
11. E)
12. A) In
part E, replace ‘responses’ with ‘response’
13. A)
In part E, the sentence should be ‘have already begun and have to
conclude by 2018’.
14. E)
15. C) In
part E, resiliences is a wrong usage instead it can be resilient.
