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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.
- Few believed he said what / he said he did on / the field truthfully / after the match was over.
A. 1 Few believed he said what
B. 2 he said he did on
C. 3 the field truthfully
D. 4 after the match was over
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – E. 5
Explanation : No error
Given sentence is correct. - So stunned were the Iraqis, at that / time embroiled in an intermittent war with Iran, / with the strike that not once on the flight back did their / radars lock on to the F-16s, let alone fire at them.
A. 1 So stunned were the Iraqis, at that
B. 2 time embroiled in an intermittent war with Iran
C. 3 with the strike that not once on the flight back did their
D. 4 radars lock on to the F-16s, let alone fire at them
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – C. 3
Explanation : Replace “with” with “by” - The mention of Israel may have only been / a passing reference to an audience / of the Bharatiya Janata Party acolytes on who / the significance must have been largely lost.
A. 1 The mention of Israel may have only been
B. 2 a passing reference to an audience
C. 3 of the Bharatiya Janata Party acolytes on who
D. 4 the significance must have been largely lost
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – C. 3
Explanation : Replace “who” with “whom” - The throwaway nature of the remarks / brings into question how many / of this is innuendo, how much / bluster, and how much doctrine.
A. 1 The throwaway nature of the remarks
B. 2 brings into question how many
C. 3 of this is innuendo, how much
D. 4 bluster, and how much doctrine
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – B. 2
Explanation : Replace “many” with “much” - There was no doubt that Israelis / destroyed the reactor in Baghdad, / even though they kept quiet about / it for year afterwards.
A. 1 There was no doubt that Israelis
B. 2 destroyed the reactor in Baghdad
C. 3 even though they kept quiet about
D. 4 it for year afterwards
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – D. 4
Explanation : Replace “year” with “years” - Every now and than there comes / a book like this, which / makes your thumbs / prick with prophecy.
A. 1 Every now and than there comes
B. 2 a book like this, which
C. 3 makes your thumbs
D. 4 prick with prophecy
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – A. 1
Explanation : Replace “than” with “then” - Dickens is the black ghetto they live in, located not far from / Foothill Freeway, where Rodney King’s life and “in / a sense America and its haughty notions / of fair play began their downward spiral.
A. 1 Dickens is the black ghetto they live in, located not far from
B. 2 Foothill Freeway, where Rodney King’s life and “in
C. 3 a sense America and its haughty notions
D. 4 of fair play began their downward spiral
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – E. 5
Explanation : No error
Given sentence is correct. - Mr. Beatty drags you into the heart / of this black vortex, but he / does so with a lyricism, tenderness / and humour that keep lighting up the edges.
A. 1 Mr. Beatty drags you into the heart
B. 2 of this black vortex, but he
C. 3 does so with a lyricism, tenderness
D. 4 and humour that keep lighting up the edges
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – D. 4
Explanation : Replace “keep” with “keeps” - We are likely to be startled that both in / its political choices and in / their Booker winner, the U.S. was handed / such starkly candid mirrors this year.
A. 1 We are likely to be startled that both in
B. 2 its political choices and in
C. 3 their Booker winner, the U.S. was handed
D. 4 such starkly candid mirrors this year
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – C. 3
Explanation : Replace “their” with “its” - You can sledge your heart’s content / in the ground, then walk out with / a wicked smile at your prey, score a / century the next day, and all is forgotten.
A. 1 You can sledge your heart’s content
B. 2 in the ground, then walk out with
C. 3 a wicked smile at your prey, score a
D. 4 century the next day, and all is forgotten
E. 5 No error
Answer & Explanation
Answer – B. 2
Explanation : Replace “in” with “on”
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