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Directions (1-10): Find out the error(s) if any, in each of the following sentences and choose the correct option.
1) Besides the Khooni Darwaza or Gate (A)/ of Blood, there are other landmarks (B)/ to remind us of those days. (C)/ Traces of the cannonading remain on Kashmere Gate’s walls.(D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) no error
2) Two small structures opposite to the GPO (A)/ here with cannon-heads mounted in them, (B)/ proclaim the site of the British Magazine(C)/Â blown up by nine Englishmen. (D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and B
d) B and D
e) No error
3) The now congested market, where once the (A)/ Red Light area was located, and which had attracted the city’s nobility (B)/ and literati including Mirza Ghalib, also retain some traces of those times — old buildings from whose balconies Delhiwallahs (C)/ saw British troops enter to recapture the city. In Chandni Chowk’s Parantha Gali, there use to be a milkseller in the 1960s and ’70s.(D)
a) Only A
b) C and D
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) no error
4) She was on a hunger (A)/ strike for 16 long years demanding (B)/ the Indian government repeal (C)/Â the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.(D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) No error
5) In the Kutcha Mir Ashiq lane of (A)/ Chawri Bazar, members of the family of Munshi (B)/ Turab Ali fled to the roof, leaving the dal (C)/Â burning about the kitchen. The story is still retold by there descendant, the octogenarian Haji Mian. (D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) Only D
e) no error
6) Led by Lt. Willoughby, they were afraid (A)/ the rebel soldiers would capture the arms store and wreak havoc on their forces. (B)/ The explosion, they say, was so loud it could be heard right up to Meerut, (C)/ 65 kilometres away, where many thought Doomsday had come. (D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) No error
7) Irom Sharmila, 47, went in a hunger (A)/ strike in 2000 protested the Malom massacre, (B)/ where 16 people were shot dead (C)/ in Manipur, allegedly by the army. (D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and B
d) B and D
e) no error
8)  Iran’s decision to reduce its commitments (A)/ under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan (B)/ of Action, which seeking to curtail its nuclear capabilities, (C)/ is more of a warning than a move to break the nuclear deal. (D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) no error
9) While President Hassan Rouhani clinched the (A)/ agreement in 2015 despite opposition (B)/ from hardliners, his promise was that it would (C)/ help lift sanctions, providing relief to Iran’s economy. (D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) No error
10) Iran have been under economic and political pressure (A)/ since President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal a year (B)/ ago. The U.S. has since amp up its anti-Iran (C)/rhetoric and re-imposed sanctions.(D)
a) Only A
b) Only C
c) A and C
d) B and D
e) no error
Answers :
Direction (1-10) :
1) Answer: e)
The sentence is grammatically and structurally correct.
2) Answer: c)
Use ‘opposite the GPO..’ instead of ‘opposite to the..’ as ‘to’ is redundant here.
Use ‘on’ instead of ‘in’ as the correct form of preposition.
3) Answer: b)Â
Talking about a single entity- the market, use ‘retains’ instead of ‘retain’.
Simple past tense, so it should be- ‘there used to be’, instead of ‘there use to be’.
4) Answer: e)
The sentence is grammatically and structurally correct.
5) Answer: d)
A kitchen is a place or an enclosure, so you can use ‘dal burning in the kitchen’, instead of ‘about’.
Use ‘their’ (pronoun) instead of there.
6) Answer: e)
The sentence is grammatically and structurally correct.
7) Answer: c)
Use ‘on’ instead of ‘in’ as the correct form of preposition.
It should be +ing form of verb- protesting, instead of ‘protested’.
8) Answer: b)Â
Use simple past form of seek- ‘sought’, instead of seeking.
9) Answer: e)
The sentence is grammatically and structurally correct.
10) Answer: c)
Use ‘has been’ for a single entity here for Iran.
Use simple past form of amp up- amped up.
