Basic English Language Quiz for All Banking Exams- 4th May

Directions (1-15): Find out the error, if any. If there is no error, the answer is (e), i.e. No error. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

Q1. (a) Her speech was / (b) not clearly but / (c)we understood / (d) the underlying meaning. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q2. (a) Teena worked / (b) very hardly / (c) as she wanted / (d) to be surgeon/ (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q3. (a) You have / (b) acted nobler / (c) than / (d) all of us. / (e) No error.
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q4. (a) When she received / (b) the good news, she ran / (c) straightly to / (d) call up her parents. / (e) No error.
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q5. (a) Rahul could not scarcely / (b) conceal his / (c) happiness at/ (d) my resignation. / (e) No error.
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q6. (a) We seldom or ever / (b) go out these days / (c) because it is too/ (d) hot now-a-days. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q7. (a) The State Government / (b) appointed him as / (c) officer-in-charge. / last month. (d) / No error (e)
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q8. (a) Great leaders tried / (b) to eradicate social / (c) evil practices / (d) with tooth and nail. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q9. (a) She is either / (b) dumb or / (c) deaf, if / (d) not both. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q10. (a) She does her / (b) work good / (c) as she is / (d) a trained nurse. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q11. (a) Outright rejection / (b) of my plea / (c) disappointed me. /(d) a lot. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q12. (a) My father / (b) is very quicker / (c) than I / (d) at Chess. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q13.(a) I / (b) see him often / (c) at the / (d) bus terminal. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q14. (a) I refused to consider / (b) him as an honest boy / (c) as he had / (d) cheated many people. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Q15. (a) I have / (b) never seen a / (c) coward man. / (d) like Rohan. / (e) No error
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) d
(e) e

Practice More Questions of English for Competitive Exams:

Solutions

S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Speech (noun) will be qualified by an adjective ‘clear’.

S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Hard’ must replace ‘hardly’ here.

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. Use ‘more nobly’. ‘Nobler’ is an adjective and here we need an adverb.

S4. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘Straight’ is both adverb and adjective. ‘Straightly’ is a wrong word.

S5. Ans. (a)
Sol. Scarcely cannot be used with ‘not’.

S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Seldom’ is followed either by ‘if ever’ or by ‘or never’

S7. Ans. (b)
Sol. Remove ‘as’. Appoint is not followed by ‘as’.

S8. Ans. (d)
Sol. Remove ‘with’.

S9. Ans. (d)
Sol. Change ‘if not both’ into ‘if neither’.

S10. Ans. (b)

Sol. ‘Good’ is an adjective. Use adverb ‘well’ here.

S11. Ans. (d)
Sol. No error.

S12. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Much’ will come with ‘quicker’ (comparative degree).

S13. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Often’ will come before the main verb ‘see’.

S14. Ans. (b)
Sol. Remove ‘as’. Since as does not follow consider.

S15. Ans. (e)
Sol. No error.