Connectors Questions for Bank Exams

When preparing for bank exams, connectors play a crucial role in English language sections, testing a candidate’s ability to understand logical relationships between sentences and ideas. These questions assess comprehension, sentence structure, and the ability to create coherent paragraphs. Connectors act as bridges, linking ideas smoothly, clarifying reasoning, and enhancing the flow of information. Mastering connector-based questions helps candidates improve their language skills and excel in areas such as reading comprehension, sentence completion, and critical reasoning, which are key components in bank exam English sections.

Connectors Questions for Bank Exams

Connectors, or transition words, are words or phrases that link ideas together in a sentence or paragraph. They help to create a smooth flow of ideas and make your writing more coherent. These connect two equal parts of a sentence introduce a dependent clause and show a relationship between two ideas. Connectors connect two independent clauses and show a relationship between the ideas. Before choosing a connector, identify the relationship between the two ideas you want to connect.

Direction(1-10): In each of the following questions, two statements and five connectors are given. Only one of the connectors from those given can be used to combine the given two statements into one sentence without changing the meaning. Choose that connector as your answer.

1. I. The school has the best research infrastructure in the town.
II. The students are not at all interested in pursuing education.

A. Owing to

B. Hence

C. Because of

D. However

E. None of the above

2. I. I didn’t want to get into the depth of the matter at any cost.
II. I took the book from the shelf and started reading with great attention.

A. Instead

B. In contrast

C. On the other hand

D. However

E. None of the above

3. I. I am of the opinion that there is no problem with his technique to play the short ball.
II. I will talk to him about this the first thing after the match today.

A. Nonetheless

B. Because

C. Hence

D. By comparison

E. None of the above

4. I. The monsoon has been very late this year and it has only started raining now.
II. The farmers are demanding compensation from the government for their revenue loss.

A. Nevertheless

B. Though

C. Owing to

D. Yet

E. None of the above

5. I. The team played its heart out in the match.
II. The result had nothing to show for the efforts put into the match by them.

A. Nonetheless

B. Since

C. As

D. Because

E. None of the above

6. I. The office has got the best staff in the town for this job.
II. The higher management is not at all interested in its development.

A. By virtue of

B. By comparison

C. On the contrary

D. However

E. None of the above

7. I. Utility employees should not be made to resign from the company at any cost.
II. In the long run the company is bound to suffer.

A. Nevertheless

B. Otherwise

C. In any case

D. Instead

E. None of the above

8. I. The notification by the Reserve Bank of India to do away with stapling of currency notes by banks has not done much difference.
II. Banks are left with no other option but to issue the old notes to their customers in the absence of fresh notes from the RBI

A. Due to

B. Because of

C. As

D. Hence

E. None of the above

9. I. I am of the opinion that my father would have done it the same way had he known this fact.
II. The differences we had when he was alive.

A. Due to

B. Instead of

C. Because of

D. As

E. Since

10. I. The popularity of cricket eating into the share of revenue of other sports in India for many years now.
II. All other sports are suffering and India is not able to win medals in Olympics in all such sports.
A. Because of

B. Therefore

C. Henceforth

D. Due to

E. None of the above

11. I. The teacher has asked the students not to copy from others during the examination.
II. The students kept on copying during the final examination resulting in the expulsion of two of them from the university.

A. Yet

B. If

C. As

D. On account of

E. Owing to

12. I. I was not in a situation to step out of the house yesterday because of my severe headache.
II. I attended the sales meeting at my office on the instructions of my senior management.
A. Since

B. Nevertheless

C. On the other hand

D. By comparison

E. None of the above

13. I. I was very tired and exhausted after spending the whole day at the hospital.
II. I went to sleep without having dinner after coming back.

A. So

B. In fact

C. Especially

D. And

E. None of the above

14. I. The minister will definitely come to this locality for election campaigning within the next two days.
II. He may not come here if he is denied the ticket from this constituency by
his party.

A. Since

B. Unless

C. In addition to

D. Of course

E. Except

15. I. Like every second Indian, I am a big fan of sports and I also like to watch a lot of matches with my friends.
II. I love to watch football matches and enjoy the nail-biting finish most of the matches have.

A. Especially

B. Although

C. Whether

D. Nevertheless

E. None of the above

16. I. Thunderstorms brought the first significant rainfall in weeks to the UK
II. Belfast International Airport received 88.2mm in a matter of hours, more than the region’s monthly July average.

A. as

B. if

C. because

D. so

E. None of the above

17. I. Unlike other business leaders she has not shunned political leaders but engaged with them
II. She believes that society needs political leaders to bring about change and citizens need to engage with them.

A. in lieu of

B. because

C. as in

D. as of

E. None of these

18. I. I live only a few blocks from work
II. I walk to work and enjoy it.

A. now that

B. rather than

C. even though

D. only if

E. None of these

19. I. The floors had been waxed and the furniture got polished by afternoon.
II. The house sparkled but in an empty kind of way.

A. Once

B. As

C. When

D. Wherever

E. None of these.

20. I. The man goes to the park every Sunday
II. He loves watching the ducks in the lake.

A. Until

B. Once

C. As

D. Although

E. None of the above

Correct Answers

1 D

2 A

3 A

4 C

5 A

6 D

7 B

8 C

9 B

10 D 

11 A

12 B

13 A

14 B

15 A

16 A

17 B

18 A

19 A

20 C

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