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English Questions: Sentence Correction Set – 57

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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in sentence correction, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. Relying solely on the recommendations of ministers, MPs and other political functionaries would not guarantee the best candidate, and given that the appointee had been paid out of public funds, the job should be left open to competition, the court said.
    1) has been paid out of public funds
    2) had being paid out of public funds
    3)was been paid out of public funds
    4)was being paid out of public funds
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation :  was being paid out of public funds

  2. By taking advantage of Article 254 (2) of the Constitution, which allows states to enact laws on concurrent list subjects that do not conform to Central legislation as long as the president assents to such laws, the state government has seized control and demonstrated how states can take the lead in ensuring that important reform sees the light of day.
    1)that allow states to enact laws
    2)
    which allow states to enact laws
    3)
    that allows state to enact laws
    4)which allows state to enact laws
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No correction required

  3. A confident India is now ready for practical engagement with Pakistan, with no great expectations for a near-term structural change in the bilateral relationship.
    1) with no great expectations of a near-term
    2) with great expectation of a near-term
    3) with no great expectation for a near-term
    4) with  great expectations for a near-term
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation :  with no great expectations of a near-term

  4. Instead of a vigorous clash of ideas, instead of critique and engagement, what we were witnessing that was competitive illiberalism, a refusal to hear the other side, and a desire to smooth over the real contentions of politics.
    1)what we were witnessing thatis competitive illiberalism
    2) what we are witnessing that was competitive illiberalism
    3)what we are witnessing is competitive illiberalism
    4) what we were witnessing was competitive illiberalism
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : what we are witnessing is competitive illiberalism

  5. All cigarette packets manufactured in these countries will had to be plain, standardised in the same drab green colour with the product name on the pack in a standard font.
    1)shall have to be plain
    2)will have to be plain
    3)shall had to be plain
    4) will has to be plain
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : will have to be plain

  6. The published books are available online, on the Valmeeki Books smart phone/tablet-based application available in Google Play Store at present, from where they can be downloaded and read; most of them for free and others for a price.
    1)most of them for free and others for an price
    2) many of them for free and other for an price
    3) most of them for free and other for a price
    4)many of them for free and others for a price
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : many of them for free and others for a price

  7. Once the ice is broken with a mention of Chennai’s summer and how he spent the holidays with his kids, Prabhudheva launches into his trademark shy laugh.
    1)was broken with a mention
    2) has broken with a mention
    3) has been broken with a mention
    4)will be broken with a mention
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : No correction required

  8. Despite tremendous pressure from tobacco companies India stood its ground by introducing pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the front and back side of all tobacco products.
    1)of the front and back sides of all
    2)of the front or the back side of all
    3) of the front and the back side of all
    4)of the front or back sides of all
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : of the front and back sides of all

  9. The Hindi play, interwoven with songs in Urdu and Punjabi by both poets, is one that portrays the depth, intensity and silences of the love between the writers.
    1)silences of love among the two writers
    2) silences of the love between thetwowriters
    3) silences of love between the three writers
    4)silences of the love among the two writers
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : silences of the love between the two writers

  10. The ruling by the intellectual property tribunal is the latest legal stumbling block for Apple in its second-biggest global market following the suspension of its iTunes movie service in April.
    1)A ruling by an intellectual property tribunal
    2)An ruling by the intellectual property tribunal
    3) The ruling by an intellectual property tribunal
    4) A ruling by the intellectual property tribunal
    5) No correction required
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : The ruling by an intellectual property tribunal