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English Questions Spotting Error Set – 87

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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. UP is all set for an engrossing / campaign, featuring drama / and a star cast as / well as genuine issue.
    1) UP is all set for an engrossing
    2) campaign, featuring drama
    3) and a star cast as
    4) well as genuine issue.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “issue” with “issues”

  2. Government and legislators must clean / up its act and focus / on delivering equality / and security to women.
    1) Government and legislators must clean
    2) up its act and focus
    3) on delivering equality
    4) and security to women.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : Replace “its” with “their”

  3. It’s Modi’s job to persuade Trump / not to cut down on / visas for Indians or punish / companies that outsource at India.
    1) It’s Modi’s job to persuade Trump
    2) not to cut down on
    3) visas for Indians or punish
    4) companies that outsource at India.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “in” with “to”

  4. Trade in these areas isn’t a zero-sum / game; instead it produce / positive results / for and strengthens both economies.
    1) Trade in these areas isn’t a zero-sum
    2) game; instead it produce
    3) positive results
    4) for and strengthens both economies.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : Replace “produce” with “produces”

  5. American policy in the Afghanistan-Pakistan / region has been riddled with / contradictions and it could be / useful to point these out.
    1) American policy in the Afghanistan-Pakistan
    2) region has been riddled with
    3) contradictions and it could be
    4) useful to point these out.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Replace “could” with “would”

  6. Advances in communications / technology have / upend the staid / world of banking.
    1) Advances in communications
    2) technology have
    3) upend the staid
    4) world of banking.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : It should be “upended” instead of “upend ”
    Have/have – V3

  7. What is not needed is a policy / which relies on complex / cross-subsidies or punitive / tax on use of cash.
    1) What is not needed is a policy
    2) which relies on complex
    3) cross-subsidies or punitive
    4) tax on use of cash.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : It should be “taxes” instead of “tax”

  8. The big spending / in absolute terms / are in railways / and road building.
    1) The big spending
    2) in absolute terms
    3) are in railways
    4) and road building.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  9. In addition there is welcome emphasis / on keeping infrastructure / spending high, particularly / in road building and railways.
    1) In addition there is welcome emphasis
    2) on keeping infrastructure
    3) spending high, particularly
    4) in road building and railways.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  10. Given this context, it is / important government create / a conducive environment to / the spread of digital payments.
    1) Given this context, it is
    2) important government create
    3) a conducive environment to
    4) the spread of digital payments.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Replace “to” with “for”