English Questions: Spotting Error (IBPS CLERK PRELIMS 2017 PATTERN BASED) set – 148

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FIND THE INCORRECT SENTENCE

1. China, the global locomotive of the 2000s, is now (A)/ an upper-middle-income country whose growth (B)/ rate have halved, It no longer pulls (C)/ along the world economy in the same speed.(D)/
   1) C And D
   2) B and D
   3) D and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: C)- Replace ‘have’ with ‘has’, Use has for growth rate.
   D) Replace ‘in’ with ‘at’ at – expressing location or arrival in a particular place or position.
   
   
2. Hence Western expectations of ever-rising (A)/ wages in 20th century have been (B)/ replaced by wage stagnation and voter fears(C)/ that the future would be ever bleaker.(D)/
   1) C And D
   2) B and D
   3) D and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2) 
   Explanation: B – ‘the’ article should be added before 20th.
   D – Replce “would” with “will ” for future.
   
   
3. Our working-ages population is growing, and (A)/ our productivity is still so (B)/ abysmal in many sector that we can (C)/ reap large gains by simply catching up with the West.(D)/
   1) C And D
   2) B and D
   3) C and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation: C – Replce “sector” with “sectors” with many.
   A – Replce “ages” with “age”, Our working-age population….
   
   
4. The book features 19 handpicked story, (A)/ embellished with the author expansively (B)/ visualised descriptions of their settings and (C)/ confined largely to circumstances of privilege.(D)/
   1) C And D
   2) B and D
   3) D and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4) 
   Explanation: A – Replce “story” with “stories”
   B – Replce “author” with “author’s”
   
   
5. The author writes effectively in first person, (A)/ the conversations are genteel (B)/ and colloquial, and she excel (C)/ in weaving quotes in a cohesive narrative.(D)/
   1) C And D
   2) B and D
   3) D and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 1)
   Explanation: C – Replce “excel” with “excels”
   D – Replce “in” with “into”
   
   
6. Later in life, there was larger subterfuges, like building (A)/ a nuclear programme with French help in (B)/ the Negev desert away from all eye, including (C)/ the prying eye of their biggest ally, the United States.(D)/
   1) C And D
   2) B and D
   3) D and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation: A – Replce “was” with “were” for subterfuges.
   D – Replce “eye” with “eyes”[/spoiler
7. More of rural India, in spite of the panchayat level (A)/ decentralisation, is still ruled through systems (B)/ those were designed to extract revenue and (C)/ govern populations through excessive control of resources.(D)/
   1) C And A
   2) B and D
   3) D and A
   4) A and B
   5) All of the above
   [spoiler title="Answer & Explanation" icon="plus" style="fancy"]Answer – 1)
   Explanation: A – Replce “more” with “Much”
   C – Replce “those” with “that”