English Spotting Errors Questions – New Pattern Day-8

English Spotting Errors Questions – New Pattern Day-8:

Dear Readers, We all knew that IBPS has introduced some new pattern English Spotting Errors Questions in the Examinations, many of our followers were requesting us to provide Practice Questions based on the new pattern, for that here WE have started providing Practice English Questions Based on New pattern. Kindly follow us regularly and make use of it, if you have any suggestion kindly use the comment section below.

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1. Question 1 of 10

   1. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   Quite likely, the government will (a)/ take their own time to roll it out, (b)/ and spend even less this year (c)/ than the measly allocation of ₹2,700 crore. (d)/

   • Abc
   • Bcd
   • Cda
   • Abd
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Explanation: Correct Answer is: c

   The error is in part ‘b’, ‘their’ is a wrong pronoun, as ‘government’ is singular in form, so ‘their’ will be replaced by ‘its’.

   Incorrect
   

   Explanation: Correct Answer is: c

   The error is in part ‘b’, ‘their’ is a wrong pronoun, as ‘government’ is singular in form, so ‘their’ will be replaced by ‘its’.
2. Question 2 of 10

   2. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   So much for maternity entitlements under the (a)/  NFSA being “a promising opportunity to be improve (b)/ nutrition during pregnancy”, as (c)/ the Economic Survey 2015-16 aptly put it. (d)

   • Abc
   • Bcd
   • Cda
   • Abd
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: c

   Explanation: The error is in part b, ‘be’ should be eliminated.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: c

   Explanation: The error is in part b, ‘be’ should be eliminated.
3. Question 3 of 10

   3. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   Second, the Central government is giving short shrift (a)/ to the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), (b)/ a critical programme that was making(c)/ good progress unless it was (d)/ hit by Budget cuts in 2015-16. (e)

   • bcde
   • cdba
   • abce
   • acde
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: c

   Explanation: The error is in part d, i.e., unless, it should be ‘until’ whose meaning is ‘upto the time of something happening(before time).

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: c

   Explanation: The error is in part d, i.e., unless, it should be ‘until’ whose meaning is ‘upto the time of something happening(before time).
4. Question 4 of 10

   4. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   Those was so mind-boggling that the government’s own (a)/  Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, criticised  (b)/ the cuts in public, mentioning(c)/  inter alia that they had made wage (d)/ payments a “month-to-month suspense”. (e)

   • bcde
   • cdba
   • abce
   • acde
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: a

   Explanation: The error is in part ‘a’, the pronoun ‘those’ is wrong, it should be ‘that’.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: a

   Explanation: The error is in part ‘a’, the pronoun ‘those’ is wrong, it should be ‘that’.
5. Question 5 of 10

   5. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   The cuts were partly reversed later on, (a)/ but, meanwhile, they have done much damage (b)/ and sent a disastrous (c)/ signal down the line. (d)

   • Abc
   • Bcd
   • Cda
   • Abd
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: c

   Explanation: The sentence in in past tense, but the helping verb used in the part b, i.e., have is incorrect, it should be ‘had’ to make it a past perfect sentence.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: c

   Explanation: The sentence in in past tense, but the helping verb used in the part b, i.e., have is incorrect, it should be ‘had’ to make it a past perfect sentence.
6. Question 6 of 10

   6. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   Yet, the Union Budget that followed, for 2016-17, (a)/  did not make any provision for maternity entitlements (b)/ beyond the pilot scheme (for 53 districts only) (c)/ initiated from the previous government. (d)

   • abc
   • cda
   • bcd
   • abd
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: a

   Explanation: The use of preposition ‘from’ in the part d is incorrect, it should be ‘by’.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: a

   Explanation: The use of preposition ‘from’ in the part d is incorrect, it should be ‘by’.
7. Question 7 of 10

   7. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   This was all the more startling as the Central government had assured (a)/  the Supreme Court in writing, (b)/  on October 30, 2015, that this scheme — (c)/ Indira Gandhi MatritvaSahyog Yojana — would be (d)/ extend to all districts in 2016-17. (e)

   • bcde
   • cdba
   • abce
   • acde
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: b

   Explanation: The error in in part e, that is the verb form ‘extend’ in wrong, it should be ‘extended’.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: b

   Explanation: The error in in part e, that is the verb form ‘extend’ in wrong, it should be ‘extended’.
8. Question 8 of 10

   8. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   On December 31, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi  (a)/ proudly announced that (b)/ pregnant women nationwide would (c)/ soon will get maternity benefits of ₹6,000. (d)

   • abc
   • cda
   • bcd
   • abd
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: a

   Explanation: The use of would and will simultaneously is wrong, so ‘will get’ will be replaced by ‘be getting’.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: a

   Explanation: The use of would and will simultaneously is wrong, so ‘will get’ will be replaced by ‘be getting’.
9. Question 9 of 10

   9. Question

   Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

   He projected this as a “new scheme” (sic), without any (a)/ reference to the NFSA, perhaps hope (b)/ that the victims of demonetisation (c)/ would appreciate the gesture. (d)

   • abc
   • cda
   • bcd
   • abd
   • No error
   Correct
   

   Correct Answer is: b

   Explanation: The error is in part b, ‘hope’ should be replaced by ‘hoping’.

   Incorrect
   

   Correct Answer is: b

   Explanation: The error is in part b, ‘hope’ should be replaced by ‘hoping’.
10. Question 10 of 10

    10. Question

    Direction (1-10): Kindly find the errorless combination in the given sentences.

    With Prime Minister finally endorsing maternity entitlements, (a)/  things started moving after that, (b)/  but not much: the allocation of ₹2,700 crore(c)/  in the 2017-18 Union Budget is barely enough to cover a fourth of all births,(d)/ even with the proposed 60:40 ratio for Centre:State funding. (e)

    • bcde
    • cdba
    • abce
    • acde
    • No error
    Correct
    

    Correct Answer is: a

    Explanation: The error is in part a, that is, with the proper noun, we always use definite article ‘the’, so with ‘prime minster’, we will add ‘the’ before it.

    Incorrect
    

    Correct Answer is: a

    Explanation: The error is in part a, that is, with the proper noun, we always use definite article ‘the’, so with ‘prime minster’, we will add ‘the’ before it.

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1)Quite likely, the government will (a)/ take their own time to roll it out, (b)/ and spend even less this year (c)/ than the measly allocation of ₹2,700 crore. (d)/

1. Abc
2. Bcd
3. Cda
4. Abd
5. No error

2)So much for maternity entitlements under the (a)/  NFSA being “a promising opportunity to be improve (b)/ nutrition during pregnancy”, as (c)/ the Economic Survey 2015-16 aptly put it. (d)

1. Abc
2. Bcd
3. Cda
4. Abd
5. No error

3)Second, the Central government is giving short shrift (a)/ to the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), (b)/ a critical programme that was making(c)/ good progress unless it was (d)/ hit by Budget cuts in 2015-16. (e)

1. bcde
2. cdba
3. abce
4. acde
5. No error

4)Those was so mind-boggling that the government’s own (a)/  Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, criticised  (b)/ the cuts in public, mentioning(c)/  inter alia that they had made wage (d)/ payments a “month-to-month suspense”. (e)

1. bcde
2. cdba
3. abce
4. acde
5. No error

5)The cuts were partly reversed later on, (a)/ but, meanwhile, they have done much damage (b)/ and sent a disastrous (c)/ signal down the line. (d)

1. Abc
2. Bcd
3. Cda
4. Abd
5. No error

6)Yet, the Union Budget that followed, for 2016-17, (a)/  did not make any provision for maternity entitlements (b)/ beyond the pilot scheme (for 53 districts only) (c)/ initiated from the previous government. (d)

1. abc
2. cda
3. bcd
4. abd
5. No error

7)This was all the more startling as the Central government had assured (a)/  the Supreme Court in writing, (b)/  on October 30, 2015, that this scheme — (c)/ Indira Gandhi MatritvaSahyog Yojana — would be (d)/ extend to all districts in 2016-17. (e)

1. bcde
2. cdba
3. abce
4. acde
5. No error

8)On December 31, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi  (a)/ proudly announced that (b)/ pregnant women nationwide would (c)/ soon will get maternity benefits of ₹6,000. (d)

1. abc
2. cda
3. bcd
4. abd
5. No error

9)He projected this as a “new scheme” (sic), without any (a)/ reference to the NFSA, perhaps hope (b)/ that the victims of demonetisation (c)/ would appreciate the gesture. (d)

1. abc
2. cda
3. bcd
4. abd
5. No error

10)With Prime Minister finally endorsing maternity entitlements, (a)/  things started moving after that, (b)/  but not much: the allocation of ₹2,700 crore(c)/  in the 2017-18 Union Budget is barely enough to cover a fourth of all births,(d)/ even with the proposed 60:40 ratio for Centre:State funding. (e)

1. bcde
2. cdba
3. abce
4. acde
5. No error