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English Questions Spotting Error Set – 85

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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.

  1. What will however remains as the / brokers’ forte is his ability / to act as matchmaker and / his ability to give credible advice.
    1) What will however remains as the
    2) brokers’ forte is his ability
    3) to act as matchmaker and
    4) his ability to give credible advice.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Replace “remains” with “remain”
    As nouns the difference between remain and remains is that remain is state of remaining; stay while remains is what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
    As verbs the difference between remain and remains is that remain is to stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised while remains is (remain).

  2. A good broker is aware that without / strong logistics support, transactions / could take longer to transpire, / in some cases might never happen.
    1) A good broker is aware that without
    2) strong logistics support, transactions
    3) could take longer to transpire,
    4) in some cases might never happen.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “might” with “may”
    May is used to express what is possible, factual, or could be factual.
    For example, He may lose his job.

  3. The broker plays an important part as / a matchmaker enabling buyer / and seller to agree to terms / which would spark a transaction.
    1) The broker plays an important part as
    2) a matchmaker enabling buyer
    3) and seller to agree to terms
    4) which would spark a transaction.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  4. While consumers does extensive / secondary research, they rely / heavily on agents to / advise them before transacting.
    1) While consumers does extensive
    2) secondary research, they rely
    3) heavily on agents to
    4) advise them before transacting.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Replace “does” with “do”.
    The difference between ‘do’ and ‘does’ is very basic. ‘Do’ is a verb , and ‘does’ is its third person singular present tense.Thus, when the subject is represented by the pronouns ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’, or ‘they’, we must use ‘do’.
    On the other hand, when the subject is represented by the pronouns ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’, we must use ‘does’.

  5. The reason they call it a practice / is because even if they don’t / get it right they are not / accountable and it is not their fault.
    1) The reason they call it a practice
    2) is because even if they don’t
    3) get it right they are not
    4) accountable and it is not their fault.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  6. You never hear an army officer say / he is on the military practice / or even a politician refer / to his profession as a practice.
    1) You never hear an army officer say
    2) he is on the military practice
    3) or even a politician refer
    4) to his profession as a practice.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : Replace “on” with “in”

  7. You mean the judge up there, the / prosecutor and all you guys / in black robes are still into / rehearsal and we are paying for that.
    1) You mean the judge up there, the
    2) prosecutor and all you guys
    3) in black robes are still into
    4) rehearsal and we are paying for that.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “that” with “this”

  8. if i had arrived at 11.05 i would / have been told i am / late for my appointment and would / have had to reschedule.
    1) if i had arrived at 11.05 i would
    2) have been told i am
    3) late for my appointment and would
    4) have had to reschedule.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  9. Such is the magical world of medicine / and it suddenly strike me / that these guys with ‘scopes round / their necks are still practicing.
    1) Such is the magical world of medicine
    2) and it suddenly strike me
    3) that these guys with ‘scopes round
    4) their necks are still practicing.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : Replace “strike” with “strikes”

  10. Woe betide you get snarled into a / legal case and they are only the / other lot i can think of who / call their profession a practice.
    1) Woe betide you get snarled into a
    2) legal case and they are only the
    3) other lot i can think of who
    4) call their profession a practice.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : The correct sequence should be “They are the only….





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