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English Questions Spotting Error Set – 93

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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. It is not okay for us to demand freedom / of speech and tell the other / person to shut on when they / have a viewpoint to present.
    1) It is not okay for us to demand freedom
    2) of speech and tell the other
    3) person to shut on when they
    4) have a viewpoint to present.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Replace “shut on” with “shut up”
    Shut up is a phrasal verb of shut which means stop (or cause someone to stop) talking. 

  2. while progress in health indicators is / commendable, much more / needs to be done to universalise / access to quality healthcare in India.
    1) while progress in health indicators is
    2) commendable, much more
    3) needs to be done to universalise
    4) access to quality healthcare in India.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  3. This dichotomy have made / access to healthcare / expensive and hugely cumbersome / for the vast majority of the people.
    1) This dichotomy have made
    2) access to healthcare
    3) expensive and hugely cumbersome
    4) for the vast majority of the people.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1) 
    Explanation : Replace “have” with “has”
    This dichotomy is singular noun thus has will be appropriate helping verb.

  4. In a state that is more populous than / Brazil and extremely diverse, elections / in each regions follow their / own rhythm and are vastly different.
    1) In a state that is more populous than
    2) Brazil and extremely diverse, elections
    3) in each regions follow their
    4)  own rhythm and are vastly different.
    5) No error
    Answer – 3) 
    Explanation : it should be each region instead of each regions.

  5. The stakes that it holds in the global economy, / however, ensure that it will never / destabilise global systems because / it stand to gain from them.
    1) The stakes that it holds in the global economy,
    2) however, ensure that it will never
    3) destabilise global systems because
    4) it stand to gain from them.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “stand” with “stands”
    In the Present Simple verb form 3rd (third) person singular
    we add “s”, “es” or “ies” at the end of the verb

  6. Connectivity in this century is not / simply about roads and / railways, but also about bits / and bytes and hearts and minds.
    1) Connectivity in this century is not
    2) simply about roads and
    3) railways, but also about bits
    4) and bytes and hearts and minds.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.

  7. In a world where 3D printing might become / de rigueur, the transportation of / millions of tonnes of manufacturing / goods could be a dying reality.
    1) In a world where 3D printing might become
    2) de rigueur, the transportation of
    3) millions of tonnes of manufacturing
    4) goods could be a dying reality.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Replace “might” with “may”
    We use ‘might‘ to suggest a small possibility of something and Might is the past tense of may in indirect speech.

  8. For all the accumulation of power / and orchestration of geopolitics, / Putin’s tactics are not going / to fill Russia treasury.
    1) For all the accumulation of power
    2) and orchestration of geopolitics,
    3) Putin’s tactics are not going
    4) to fill Russia treasury.
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “Russia” with “Russia’s”
    Use apostrophe for possession.

  9. Through strategic leaks, Putin deftly / placed his finger in the / scale of the American elections, tipping / them in favour of Trump.
    1) Through strategic leaks, Putin deftly
    2) placed his finger in the
    3) scale of the American elections, tipping
    4) them in favour of Trump.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : Replace “finger in” with “finger on”
    put your finger on something. to discover the exact reason why a situation is the way it is, especially when something is wrong: There’s something odd about him, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

  10. These developments also shaped / the conversations at / the recently concluded / Munich Security Conference.
    1) These developments also shaped
    2) the conversations at
    3) the recently concluded
    4) Munich Security Conference.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error
    Given sentence is correct.





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