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English Questions Spotting Error Set – 94

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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. According to the National Green Tribunal’s recent / ruling such a transformation takes place when / the vehicle in question reaches 10 years / of age and plies in the National Capital Region. /No error
    1) According to the National Green Tribunal’s recent
    2) ruling such a transformation takes place when
    3) the vehicle in question reaches 10 years
    4) of age and plies in the National Capital Region
    5) No error
    Answer – E. 5
    Explanation : E. 5 No error

  2. New Delhi too should unconditionally / support Kathmandu and help remove / the perception that it’s meddling / in Nepal internal affairs. /No error
    1) New Delhi too should unconditionally
    2) support Kathmandu and help remove
    3) the perception that it’s meddling
    4) in Nepal internal affairs
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : it should be Nepal’s instead of Nepal.

  3. Cargo traffic at major ports, commercial vehicle / sales, cement output and steel consumption / are leading an upturn that point / for a more broad-based expansion./No error
    1) Cargo traffic at major ports, commercial vehicle
    2) sales, cement output and steel consumption
    3) are leading an upturn that point
    4) for a more broad-based expansion
    5) No error
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Replace “for” with “to”

  4. It was a step taken to move away from the / one-to-many narrative of the analogue media / and create a polyphony that represented the / layered reality of our complex world./No error
    1) It was a step taken to move away from the
    2) one-to-many narrative of the analogue media
    3) and create a polyphony that represented the
    4) layered reality of our complex world
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : it should be “narratives” instead of “narrative“
    one-to-many + plural

  5. They are to important to ignore, but their / actual importance can take time / to understand or reveal itself, and this / doesn’t fit into the immediate needs of news./No error
    1) They are to important to ignore, but their
    2) actual importance can take time
    3) to understand or reveal itself, and this
    4) doesn’t fit into the immediate needs of news.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : it should be too instead of to

  6. It is shameful that about half the households in / India’s start-up capital Bengaluru does not / have a sewerage connection or around / the same proportion in Mumbai live in slums./No error
    1) It is shameful that about half the households in
    2) India’s start-up capital Bengaluru does not
    3) have a sewerage connection or around
    4) the same proportion in Mumbai live in slums.
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : Replace “does” with “do”

  7. Whatever challenge emerge, the fact / is that a prosperous China, underpinned by / local consumers, will contribute / to – and shape – a prosperous global economy./ No error
    1) Whatever challenge emerge, the fact
    2) is that a prosperous China, underpinned by
    3) local consumers, will contribute
    4) to – and shape – a prosperous global economy.
    5) No error
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : it should be challenges instead of challenge

  8. Mr. Schmitz named democracy,/ individual liberty, and the rule of law as /the basis of America’s alliance with /European partners after the Second World War./ No error
    1) Mr. Schmitz named democracy
    2) individual liberty, and the rule of law as
    3) the basis of America’s alliance with
    4) European partners after the Second World War.
    5) No error
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No error

  9. Demonetisation will have a positive impact / on the economy in medium to / long term as the money from shadow economy / will find its way into the mainstream./ No error
    1) Demonetisation will have a positive impact
    2) on the economy in medium to
    3) long term as the money from shadow economy
    4) will find its way into the mainstream
    5) No error
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : it should be over instead of in.
    Over – When we use above as a preposition, it means ‘higher than’. Its meaning is close to that of the preposition over. In the following sentences, over can be used instead of above:
    Ex – The waves came up above her head and she started screaming.

  10. 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./ No error
    1) So stunned were the Iraqis, at that
    2) time embroiled in an intermittent war with Iran
    3) with the strike that not once on the flight back did their
    4) radars lock on to the F-16s, let alone fire at them
    5) No error
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : Replace “with” with “by”