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English Questions: Spotting Error Set – 43

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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)/ with inequality a rising concern and b)/ cause for political turmoil in Western c)/ countries, Ambedkar’s appeal d)/ has reaches Western shores as well. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 4. D
    Explanation : Replace “rechases” with “reached”
    has/have + V3

  2. a)/ Indeed, from being an icon solely of Dalit parties b)/ in yesteryear, Ambedkar’s legacy is enjoying a revival with political c)/ parties across India’s ideological spectrum d)/ fighting to appropriate it. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation :  Given sentence is correct.

  3. a)/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi is b)/ scheduled to travel to Ambedkar c)/ birthplace in Mhow, MP tomorrow d)/ to observe Social Harmony Day. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation: it should be Ambedkar’s instead of Ambedkar.
    use apostrophe for possessives

  4. a)/ In a bid to steal Modi’s thunder b)/ Congress organised a big rally c)/ on Monday at Nagpur, d)/ the headquarters of RSS. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer –  3. C
    Explanation : Replace “at” with “in”

  5. a)/ Ambedkar was a crusader against b)/ untouchable and the caste c)/ system, eventually d)/ embracing Buddhism in 1956. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation : Replace “untouchable” with “untouchability”.

  6. a)/ BJP’s Hindu-first agenda is contradicte b)/ d by Ambedkar’s belief that caste c)/ hierarchies is an d)/ intrinsic part of Hinduism (that is why he converted to Buddhism). e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation : Replace “is” with “are”
    caste hierarchies are plural so verb will be plural

  7. a)/ He disagreed with Mahatma Gandhi’s b)/ philosophy of self-governing villages as c)/ India’s foundation, view d)/ them instead as dens of inequality. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 3. C
    Explanation  : Replace “view” with “viewing”

  8. a)/ It’s welcome that political parties are b)/ debating Ambedkar today, What’s less welcome, c)/ however, is their attempt to project d)/ their own beliefs on to Ambedkar. d)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 5. E
    Explanation : given sentence is correct.

  9. a)/ Were he to witness today’s permanent and b)/ expanding regime of caste quotas, which all c)/ political parties appear to be agreed on, he d)/ would well be turning over in his grave. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 4. D
    Explanation Replace “would” with “could”.

  10. a)/ He was, above all, a modern thinker, b)/ a practitioner of pragmatic politics whom c)/ refused to be bogged down c)/ by any particular ideology or religion. e)/ No error
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E No error
    Answer – 2. B
    Explanation : it should be “who” instead of “whom”
    Whom  – Whom‘ is not a subject pronoun; instead, it is an object pronoun.Remember that an object pronoun is being used in the predicate of the sentence and not as the subject. Therefore, the word ‘whom‘ cannot be the subject of your sentence.’ That would be like using ‘her’ when you should use ‘she.’





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