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English Questions – Spotting Error Set 105

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Hello Aspirants.

Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in Spotting Errors, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. The case also raises questions about the role and responsibility / of a Secretary to the government, who is / not only the administrative head of a department / but also an adviser to the Minister on matter of policy.
    1) The case also raises questions about the role and responsibility
    2) of a Secretary to the government, who is
    3) not only the administrative head of a department
    4) but also an adviser to the Minister on matter of policy.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4) 
    Explanation: It should be matters instead of matter.

  2. This article seeks to make a case for / a temple and debunk the various / theories that has prevented the / same from happening for all these years.
    1) This article seeks to make a case for
    2) a temple and debunk the various
    3) theories that has prevented the
    4) same from happening for all these years
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: Replace “has” with “have”
    Used “have” for “theories”.

  3. Sometimes we tend to become extra / sensitive to issues related to / minority religions, but ignore / some issues the majority religion may have.
    1) Sometimes we tend to become extra
    2) sensitive to issues related to
    3) minority religions, but ignore
    4) some issues the majority religion may have
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Replace “some” with “any”
    Any is a determiner. It suggests an indefinite quantity or number. It is used when it is not important to say how much/many we are thinking of.

  4. Special CBI Court Judge Bharat Parashar has now / ruled that Coal Ministry officials deliberately allowed / an incomplete application from an ineligible / company to be taken up for consideration.
    1) Special CBI Court Judge Bharat Parashar has now
    2) ruled that Coal Ministry officials deliberately allowed
    3) an incomplete application from an ineligible
    4) company to be taken up for consideration.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  5. What China today is doing is against / the Indian strategic and reasonable interests / and on which India has several times pointed in / that its concerns over Chinese plans.
    1) What China today is doing is against
    2) the Indian strategic and reasonable interests
    3) and on which India has several times pointed in
    4) that its concerns over Chinese plans
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: Replace “pointed in” with “pointed out”
    Pointed out will be correct, which means to tell someone about something, often because you think that they do not know it or have forgotten it.

  6. By developing close ties with Pakistan, China / has also achieve its strategic objective / of linking its western province with / the Indian Ocean through the land route.
    1) By developing close ties with Pakistan, China
    2) has also achieve its strategic objective
    3) of linking its western province with
    4) the Indian Ocean through the land route
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: Replace “Achieve” with “achieved”
    Has + 3rd form.

  7. The induction of women into combat roles will / necessarily have to be done in a gradual / manner and military police is the / best place to begin the process.
    1) The induction of women into combat roles will
    2) necessarily have to be done in a gradual
    3) manner and military police is the
    4) best place to begin the process.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  8. It has also been taboo in these same intellectual / circles to discuss what I think / is a very reasonable request / we could have a Ram temple in Ayodhya.
    1) It has also been taboo in these same intellectual
    2) circles to discuss what I think
    3) a very reasonable request
    4) we could have a Ram temple in Ayodhya
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: Replace could have with should have.
    Should have means that something did not happen, but we wish it had happened

  9. In the U.S., Google was asked to remove / sensitive information, and its / image-capturing cars were / ordered to keep of military bases.
    1) In the U.S., Google was asked to remove
    2) sensitive information, and its
    3) image-capturing cars were
    4) ordered to keep of military bases
    5) No error
    Answer –  4)
    Explanation: Replace “of” with “off”

  10. These are welcome developments and signify / dismantling of gender barriers in defence / services, a move that’s especially revolutionary / in a patriarchal country such as India.
    1) These are welcome developments and signify
    2) dismantling of gender barriers in defence
    3) services, a move that’s especially revolutionary
    4) in a patriarchal country such as India.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: No error
    Given sentence is correct.





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