English Language Miscellaneous Quiz for IBPS Clerk Prelims

IBPS Clerk Prelims is on its way and a lot of aspirants are heading towards new hopes with this upcoming opportunity. Thus, English Language can be an impetus for their success by helping them save crucial time and score good points in lesser time and effort. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz on English Language being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions for upcoming IBPS Clerk Exam.

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Directions (1-10): In each of the following questions a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence is given and four words are put in BOLD. One of these four words may be misspelt. You have to identify the misspelt word and choose the appropriate option as your answer. If all the words are correctly spelt, then mark ‘All Correct’ as your answer.

Q1. Anmol confirmed that Nitesh is not the only person in the office who considers her a villian.

Confirmed

Person

Villian

Considers

All Correct

Solution:

VILLAIN

Q2. Diwali bieng
around the corner, Kamal has applied
for a 15 days holiday break as he
wishes to visit his family after
about one year.

Bieng

Applied

Break

Family

All Correct

Solution:

BEING

Q3. Though Narayan Sir does not agree with rest of us, yet a majority of us conccurs that he is a Yuzvendra Chahal lookalike.

Lookalike

Conccurs

Though

Majority

All Correct

Solution:

CONCURS

Q4. Dispite numerous attempts at making Nidhi understand the importance of time and priorities by her friends and family, she doesn’t seem to be getting the point.

Importance

Getting

Dispite

Priorities

All Correct

Solution:

DESPITE

Q5. Umresh had been ill all this week yet kept coming to office. This has led to his health deterriorating.

Week

Office

Led

Deterriorating

All Correct

Solution:

DETERIORATING

Q6. Tanya seems to be a no-nonsens girl to me as she is hardly into fun mode during working hours and gives her work the due priority and determination.

Nonsens

Working

Priority

Determination

All Correct

Solution:

NONSENSE

Q7. Gopal once wondered what would happn to the business if even one of Anil or Akash quit or went on a holiday.

Quit

Wondered

Happn

Business

All Correct

Solution:

HAPPEN

Q8. Umesh turns out to be a smart guy as he has discovered a way to round trip money and pay his credit card bills using that very credit card.

Turns

Smart

Discovered

Money

All Correct

Solution:

ALL CORRECT

Q9. "We have tried to strike a balance among various stakeholders. The Centre's suggestions have been incorpporated," Justice Sikri said.

Incorpporated

Stakeholders

Tried

Suggestions

All Correct

Solution:

INCORPORATED

Q10. Instaed of making comments on India‘s internal affairs, the Pakistan leadership should look inwards and address its own issues.

Leadership

Instaed

Address

Affairs

All Correct

Solution:

INSTEAD

Direction (11-15): Read each of the following sentences to find out if there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number (A, B, C or D) of this part is your answer. If there is no error in the statement, then mark option (e) as your answer choice.

Q11. The police tried (A)/ to reason with the (B)/ protestors, but the (C)/ mob stood their ground. (D)/ No Error (E)

Solution:

‘Mob’ is a collective noun and takes singular pronouns. Hence, the erroneous part here is D and instead of ‘their’, ‘its’ must be used here.

Q12. The Supreme Court set the duration for burst (A)/ crackers from 8 -10 pm for Diwali and (B)/ between 11:55 - 12:30 am on other occasions (C)/ such as Christmas and New Year. (D)/ No Error (E)

Solution:

The error here is in part (A). The sentence talks about the activity of bursting of the crackers. Hence, gerund form of the verb ‘burst’ will be used. Therefore option (a) is the correct answer choice here.

Q13. As expected, there have been (A)/ slumps in trading activity around the time (B)/ of RBI’s announcement and (C)/ when the ban came into affect. (D)/ No Error (E)

Solution:

Part D of the sentence has an error here. The correct phrase is (to) ‘come into effect’ which means come into force; start to apply.

Q14. To address the trade war, reforms (A)/ are now being proposal on a grand scale (B)/ by different countries and international (C)/ trade institutions for modernizing the WTO. (D)/ No Error (E)

Solution:

There is an error in part B of the given sentence. Instead of ‘proposal’ (noun), past form of the verb ‘propose’ must be used after ‘being’. Hence the correct answer choice here is option (b).

Q15. A 28 September Supreme Court verdict (A)/ ending the practice of keeping out (B)/ women, describing it as discriminatory, (C)/ has made zero impact on local people’s thinking. (D)/ No Error (E)