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English Questions: Spotting Error Set – 48

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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)/ perhaps lies in evolving a meritorious b)/ organisation where an individual can c)/ climb on the organisational ladder on d)/ the basis of ability and contribution. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – C. 3
    Explanation : It should be climb up instead of climb on.
    Climb up – rise in rank or status

  2. a)/ The cover story in Organiser, b)/ “Teach True History of Bharat”, notes “the excavation of late 20th and 21st century c)/ revealed the existence of a Bharatiya d)/ civilisation in unbroken continuity since 8000 BC”. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : it should be the excavations instead of the excavation. 

  3. a)/ A programme at the department of Sanskrit at Delhi University b)/ has “established that the date of Rig Veda c)/ (6000 BC, according to astronomical tool) can’t be first millennium BC d)/ as western and communist historians propagate”. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – E. 5
    Explanation : No error

  4. a)/ In this country, Mahatma b)/ Gandhi is great, not the Britishers,” c)/ he says, and adds that d)/ “Akbar was a invader. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – D. 4
    Explanation : Replace “a” with “an”

  5. a)/ After failing to avert or control the conflict,the state b)/ failed again,and again,to reassure fearful riot victims, which c)/ are still huddled in relief camps or with relatives d)/ and friends,unwilling to return home. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : it should be who instead of which.

  6. a)/ Explaining intolerance, Narain continued saying that it was because b)/ of the enormous differences being created among c)/ places which are green and good and the rest of the world, d)/ that we were becoming more and more intolerant. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : Replace “among” with “between”.

  7. a)/ For a man whose prime ministerial b)/ ambitions are transparent,Yadav c)/ and his party have been disastrous d)/ even in political messaging. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – D. 4
    Explanation : Replace “in” with “at”

  8. a)/ “This scientific and rational history of our Bharat should be introduced in b)/ the education system of this country, c)/ ” the report say, and adds that “the Masol findings, if true, could d)/ negate the African origin theory of present day human species”. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – C. 3
    Explanation : Replace “say” with “says”

  9. a)/ “This archaeological data supported by radiometric dates b)/ suggests an unbroken history of Bharatiya culture of minimum c)/ last 10,000 years,” the report says, and adds that school d)/ textbooks wrongly place “the national history of Harappa, 3000 BC of Marshall”. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – B. 2
    Explanation : It should be suggested instead of suggests.

  10. a)/ It refutes “the Aryan invasion/migration theory”, which b)/ “artificially divided the Bharatiya samaj on the c)/ basis of Aryan-Dravida and Adivasi-Videshi d)/ to destroy national integrity”. e)/ No error
    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 3
    D. 4
    E. 5 No error
    Answer – E. 5
    Explanation : No error