English Language Quiz For Bank Foundation 2024-31st January

Directions (1-5): Read each of the sentences to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of this part is your answer. If there is no error in the given sentence, then mark option “No error” as your answer.

Q1. Efficient composting is possible (A)/ through an optimal combination of (B)/ microbes and temperature to (C)/producing a nutrient-dense soil conditioner. (D)/

(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q2. Many Commonwealth jurisdictions have (A)/abolished criminal libel as an offence and even the English, (B)/ who brought this provision on India’s(C)/ statute book, did so a decade ago. (D)/

(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q3. Its hardly needs to be emphasised (A)/that water is a scarce and endangered (B)/resource with both rivers(C)/ and groundwater in India running dry. (D)/

(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q4. Mankind has lived for thousands(A)/ of years without electricity, as indeed is still (B)/the case for 30 per cent of its villages(C)/, but no substitute has yet be found for water. (D)/

(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q5. The recent Election Commission (EC) data indicates that there is a spurt in the (A)/number of eligible women voters from 47 to 48.13 per cent and among the newly (B)/enrolled voters, 4.35 crore are women, while 3.80 crore are men, which means (C)/that more than half of the first time voters will be women in 2019. (D)/

(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. Error is in part D. ‘To’ will take first form of verb. Use ‘produce’ in place of ‘producing’.

S2. Ans.(e)
Sol. No Error

S3. Ans.(a)
Sol. Error is in part A. Use ‘It’ in place of ‘Its’. ‘Its’ denotes belonging to or associated with a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.

S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. Error is in part D. Use ‘been’ and not ‘be’.

S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. No error