Dadich77- RMD IBPS Exam: English Quiz

 IBPS Exam: English Quiz

Directions (1-10): Find out which part of a sentence has an error.

1.    The families /(a) are living in Gulmohar Park / (b) for the last two decades./(c) No error./ (d)

2.    Two lakhs of people /(a) attended the meeting/(b) held in Parade grounds./(c) No error./(d)

3.    There is a Bach’s violin concerto /(a) on the radio / (b) at 6 p.m. this evening./ (c) No error/(d)

4.    Lay your books aside and / (a) lay down to rest / (b) for a while. / (c) No error / (d)

5.    We went / (a) with Guptas to a /(b) movie called ‘Deewar’ . /(c)  No error / (d)

6.    Once an old hermit / (a) saw a cat /(b) pounce upon a rat./ (c) No error. /(d)

7.    A computer virus works exactly / (a) like the biological variety / (b) which invade the human body/ (c) No error. / (d)

8.    When I first    started my school / (a) my boys had / (b) no evident love for music. / (c) No error. / (d)

9.    My uncle / (a) has left / (b) for Bombay last Saturday. / (c) No error. / (d)

10.   Don’t think / (a) you can deceive me / (b) like you did my brother. / (c) No error. /(d)

Directions (11-15): Pick out the one which can substitute  bold group of words correctly, without changing the meaning of the sentence.

11.If you have power or money you misuse and if you don’t have it you yearn for it.

(1) you misuse it when you don’t

(2) you misuse it and if you don’t

(3) you misuse so that you don’t

(4) you misuse and if you can’t 

12.With the number of vehicles on the roads going up fast, the traffic in the metros have become heavy and uncontrollable.

(1) has become heavily

(2) had become heavy

(3) have become heavily

(4) has become heavy

13.The tehelka.com revelations and their aftermath have shaked up entrenched political - bureaucratic networks in New Delhi

(1) its aftermath has shaken up

(2) their aftermaths have shaked up

(3) its aftermath has shook

(4) their aftermath have shaken up

14.The editor cut up all the long words from his article and mad the text easier.

(1) cut up some of the

(2) cut across all the

(3) cut out all the

(4) cut back all 

15.The man is mortal and ultimately he has to leave everything here, yet how irrationally he remains attached to his worldly possessions.

(1) The man is immortal

(2) Man is considered to be mortal

(3) Man is mortal                        

(4) Though the man is mortal

Answers

1.    (b)
Explanation: Change are living into have been living continuous + since / for + Unit of time are the features of perfect continuous tense.

2.    (a)
Explanation: Change lakhs into lakh. Hundred, thousand, lakh etc are used singular after numbers.

3.    (d)

4.    (b)
Explanation: Change lay into lie. These are to different words lay (रखना) laid, laid and lie (लेटना )lay, lain are the forms . Lie is used for living.

5.    (b)
Explanation: Insert the before Guptas. Guptas are known to the subject.

6.    (d)
Explanation: Pounce on / upon is a Phrasal word means move to attack quickly.

7.    (b)
Explanation: Exactly and like never go together.

8.    (b)
Explanation: Change boys into students or pupils.

9.    (b)
Explanation: Omit has. Last yesterday and ago refer to simple past.

10.  (c)
Explanation: change like into as. Like is used for similarity as is used for examples.

11.      (2)
Explanation: Misuse is a transitive verb; so it must have an object.

12.      (4)
Explanation: Since subject-word traffic is singular, auxiliary have should also be replaced by singular has.

13.      (4)
Explanation: The V3 of shake is shaken.

14.      (3)
Explanation: If you cut out part of something that someone has written, you do not print it. Now, isn’t that the job of an editor?

15.      (3)
Explanation: Here no particular man is being talked about. What is being stated here holds good for every man.