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English Questions: Spotting Error Set – 39

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

  1. a)/ Any attempt to prevent the free functioning of such b)/ organisations will amount to de-legitimising key participants c)/ and stakeholders in the country’s social, d)/ economic and political policymaking sphere. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation: No error

  2. a)/ In recent years, b)/ civil society has c)/ played a significant d)/ role of shaping policy. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 4. D
    Explanation: it should be “in” instead of “of”

  3. a)/ Their influence is obvious in incidents as diverse b)/ as the prevention of a Greenpeace activist from c)/ going abroad and the registration of d)/ a large number of cases against activist. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 4. D
    Explanation: replace “activist” with “activists”

  4. a)/ Even under the previous UPA regime, activists b)/ in Tamil Nadu opposing the Kudankulam nuclear power project c)/ faced, and continue to face, d)/ hostile treatment with various arms of the state. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 4. D
    Explanation: Replace “with” with “by”

  5. a)/ It is not difficult to surmise that a b)/ message is being send out that activism c)/ should be tempered by a d)/ nuanced deference to the state’s overarching interests. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation: Replace “send” with “sent”

  6. a)/ The Centre themself has been a poor b)/ role model, looking at the way c)/ Greenpeace India has been hounded and d)/ its registration sought to be cancelled. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 1. A
    Explanation: Replace “themself” with “itself”

  7. a)/ It merely tried to cover blocks across b)/ all the State districts to listen to c)/ people’s grievances and spread d)/ awareness through street-corner meetings. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation: Replace “state” with “State’s”

  8. a)/ The 100-day yatra, under the banner b)/ of the Soochana Evam Rozgar ka Adhikar c)/ Abhiyan, itself was as d)/ innocuous a programme as there could be. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation: No error

  9. a)/ Flagged off by social activist Aruna Roy, the Jawabdehi b)/ Yatra were aimed to spread awareness about government c)/ schemes and raise the issue of d)/ accountability in their implementation. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation: Replace “were” with “was”

  10. a)/ The audacious and unprovoked attack last weekon a b)/ group of activists who held a peaceful rally in Rajasthan can only be c)/ explained in terms of the rising resentment on the part of the ruling class toward d)/ civil society organisations demanding accountability. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation: Replace “toward” with “towards”