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English Questions Spotting Error Set – 90

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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. With that time, she can hope to have / played the game of patronage  / and penalties to dissolve / opposition from within.
    1) With that time, she can hope to have
    2) played the game of patronage
    3) and penalties to dissolve
    4)opposition from within.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : It should be “by the time” instead of “with the time”
    By the time used for saying what has already happened at the time that something else happens

  2. This storyline hinges on the formal / structure and procedure in place / for choosing the chief minister and for / the chief minister to stay in office.
    1) This storyline hinges on the formal
    2) structure and procedure in place
    3) for choosing the chief minister and for
    4) the chief minister to stay in office.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  3. The RBI is best placed to play the nodal agency for / review; after all, all foreign investment into / the country has to comply with / its foreign exchange reporting requirements.
    1) The RBI is best placed to play the nodal agency for
    2) review; after all, all foreign investment into
    3) the country has to comply with
    4) its foreign exchange reporting requirements.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  4. The executive government could / then decide on / whether to prohibit or / suspend a transaction.
    1) The executive government could
    2) then decide on
    3) whether to prohibit or
    4) suspend a transaction.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Replace “could” with “can”
    When could is used as the past tense of can, it refers to an ability that a person generally had in the past or to something that was generally possible in the past (“When I was younger, I could run for miles,” or “It used to be you could buy lunch for a dollar.”).

  5. The Committee on Foreign Investment / in the US, for example, is / required to give Congress / confidential brief on request.
    1) The Committee on Foreign Investment
    2) in the US, for example, is
    3) required to give Congress
    4) confidential brief on request.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “brief” with “briefing”
    Briefing – [countable] a meeting in which people are given instructions or information
    Ex – a press briefing

  6. India needs not just a robust arrangement / but also stringent timelines / to conclude a RBI-initiated / review and report to Parliament.
    1) India needs not just a robust arrangement
    2)  but also stringent timelines
    3)  to conclude a RBI-initiated
    4) review and report to Parliament.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Replace “a” with “an”
    Its an RBI – initiated (an used for initiated)

  7. The US has started to withdraw from / its extra-easy monetary policy, raising / rates once and expected to follow / through several time later this year.
    1) The US has started to withdraw from
    2) its extra-easy monetary policy, raising
    3) rates once and expected to follow
    4) through several time later this year.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “time” with “times”
    Several Times.

  8. It is up on the Union government and / the political leadership to do / what is required to revive / investment in the economy.
    1) It is up on the Union government and
    2) the political leadership to do
    3) what is required to revive
    4) investment in the economy.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Replace “on” with “to”
    use “up to” with the meaning, “devising or scheming; occupied with”.
    “up to it” has the meaning “having adequate powers or ability for; capable of; equal to”. … “Be up to” is something called a phrasal verb, and it has two meanings.

  9. The plan is clear in setting up the / responsibilities of the Coast / Guard, state and central / governments and local authorities.
    1) The plan is clear in setting up the
    2) responsibilities of the Coast
    3) Guard, state and central
    4) governments and local authorities.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Replace “setting up” with “setting out”
    its a phrasal verb of set
    Set out – begin a journey.

  10. This will ease the difficulty in obtaining / compensation for pollution caused / with bunker oil spill or leakage / from ships other than tankers.
    1) This will ease the difficulty in obtaining
    2) compensation for pollution caused
    3) with bunker oil spill or leakage
    4) from ships other than tankers.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Replace “with” with “by”
    Replace “with” with “by”
    Both by and with can be used to say how somebody does something, but there is an important difference.
    We use by when we say what we do to get a result.
    He succeeded by hard work.
    We use with when we say what we use to get a result.
    In passive clauses by introduces the agent – the person or thing that does an action.I was welcomed by the hostess herself.





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