English Language Quiz For IBPS Clerk Prelims 2023-18th August

Directions (1-5): 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.

Q1. Neither Merina nor (A)/ his husband were aware (B)/ of any laws regarding (C)/the sale of house (D)/No Error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q2. The decision to appoint an external (A)/ auditor for the company is the mandate (B)/ of the board of members (C)/superior than the board of other players. (D)/ No Error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q3. You are among one of those (A)/luckiest woman who (B)/attained name and fame not by (C)/hard work but by chance (D).
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q4. The majority of their (A)/income goes to rent (B)/and leaves them with hardly no (C)/money to buy nutritious food. (D)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Q5. She would not have (A) /done all this (B) /if she had not been (C)/instigated by his husband (D).
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) No Error

Directions (6-10): Given below the sentences each of which has been divided into four parts. Each of the questions is then followed by the five options which give the sequence of the rearranged parts. You must choose the option which gives the correct sequence of the parts. If the sentence is already arranged in the correct sequence or the correct sequence doesn’t match with any of the given sequence, mark option (e) .i.e. ‘None of the above’ as your answer.

Q6. against the dollar since (A)/ the recent gyrations of the rupee (B)/ in the Middle East are not surprising (C)/the rise in geopolitical tensions (D).
(a) BADC
(b) ADBC
(c) ABDC
(d) ACBD
(e) None of the above

Q7. receiving remittances from abroad (A)/ will be felt by those (B)/ of the rupee’s depreciation (C)/ the immediate advantage (D)
(a) BADC
(b) DCBA
(c) ABDC
(d) ACBD
(e) None of the above

Q8. I attended a meeting in Hyderabad to which young officers (A)/ back in 1979, while serving (B)/ in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh (C)/ of other districts were also invited (D).
(a) BCAD
(b) ADBC
(c) ABDC
(d) ACBD
(e) None of the above

Q9. the debate on the Indemnity Bill (A)/ in the Imperial Legislative (B)/ and ended on Friday (C)/ Council commenced on Thursday (D).
(a) BADC
(b) ADBC
(c) ABDC
(d) ACBD
(e) None of the above

Q10. it immediately after matriculation (A)/considered history to be (B)/ as a student, I always (C)/ a dry subject and shunned (D).
(a) BADC
(b) CDBA
(c) ABDC
(d) CBDA
(e) None of the above

 Solutions

 S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. Instead of ‘were’, ‘was’ will be used because when two subjects are attached with ‘neither-nor’ then verb is used according to the nearest subject. Here, ‘his wife’ is in ‘third person and singular form’ hence, ‘was’ will replace ‘were’.

S2. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘to’ will be used instead of ‘than’ because we do not use conjunction ‘than’ after superior, posterior, senior, interior, etc.

S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. Instead of ‘woman’, ‘women’ will be used because after ‘one of’, A number of, either of, neither of, we use plural noun.

S4. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘any’ will be used instead of ‘no’ as we use ‘any’ with ‘rarely’, ‘seldom’, scarcely’, ‘hardly’ etc. and not ‘no’

S5. Ans. (e)
Sol. The sentence is grammatically and contextually correct. So there would be no change in the sentences making option (e) our viable answer.

S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct sequence is BADC. The sentence after rearrangement is,
‘The recent gyrations of the rupee against the dollar since the rise in geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are not surprising’. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S7. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct sequence is DCBA. The sentence after rearrangement is, ‘The immediate advantage of the rupee’s depreciation will be felt by those receiving remittances from abroad.’
Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.

S8. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct sequence is BCAD. The sentence after rearrangement is, ‘BACK in 1979, while serving in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, I attended a meeting in Hyderabad to which young officers of other districts were also invited.’
Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S9. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct sequence is ABDC. “The sentence after rearrangement is, ‘THE debate on the Indemnity Bill in the Imperial Legislative Council commenced on Thursday and ended on Friday”. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct sequence is CBDA. The sentence after rearrangement is, ‘As a student, I always considered history to be a dry subject and shunned it immediately after matriculation’. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.