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English Questions: Spotting Error Set – 41

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

  1. a)/ A week after a fire broke out b)/ in the Deonar dumping c)/ ground in Mumbai, fire in d)/ smaller pockets continue to blaze. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation: Replace “fire” with “fires”

  2. a)/ The oldest and larger dumping ground of b)/ India receives over 5,500 metric tonnes of waste, c)/ 600 metric tonnes of silt, and 25 d)/ tonnes of biomedical waste daily. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 1. A
    Explanation: Replace “larger” with “largest”

  3. a)/ From slums to dumping grounds Since the early b)/ 1970s, this peripheral ward has evolved into a space for dumping c)/ garbage, waste from polluting industries, d)/ from abattoirs, and so on. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation: No error

  4. a)/ It is not only unwanted b)/ thing but “unwanted” people c)/ too who were and are d)/ dumped in this place. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation: Replace “thing” with “things”

  5. a)/ Poor people living in inner city slums, b)/ and migrants displaced from other c)/ parts of the country was d)/ all forced by circumstances to settle here. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation: Replace “was” with “were”

  6. a)/ More people (largely Dalits and Muslims) relocated b)/ around the dumping ground, c)/ following acute droughts at rural Maharashtra d)/ and other parts of the country. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation: Replace “at” with “in”

  7. a)/ The Prime Minister’s special grant b)/ for urban renewal from 1986 to 1993 c)/ resulted in massive eviction of poor d)/ people from inner city areas to Deonar. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation: No error

  8. a)/ Over 90 per cent of pregnant b)/ women in 2014-15 were c)/ anaemic, and there is a high d)/ instance for maternal mortality. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 4. D 
    Explanation: Replace “for” with “of”

  9. a)/ They may put up rent a hut in the b)/ ward, but lose access to c)/ workplace, schooling, water d)/ and sanitation, and social capital. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation: it should be “workplaces” instead of “workplace”

  10. a)/ To add to the challenges, factors b)/ such as caste, religion, region of c)/ origin, and occupation also d)/ affect the experience of poverty. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation: No error