General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'
But for your help, (a)/ no boys would have (b)/ succeeded in an (c)/ All India competition like this. (d)/ No error (e)
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5d710d4c2442194806639b28- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Cfalse
- 4Dfalse
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Answer : 5. "E"
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Q:In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
There was a ________ of traffic as the road was impassable.
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5ff6bf677925496d2ab7139f- 1relocationfalse
- 2allocationfalse
- 3diversiontrue
- 4reversionfalse
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Answer : 3. "diversion"
Q: Directions: In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
Neither the doctor (a)/ nor his assistants (b)/ were asleep when (c)/ the phone rang up. (d)/ No error (e)
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5d76116234e9db73cc62fd73Neither the doctor (a)/ nor his assistants (b)/ were asleep when (c)/ the phone rang up. (d)/ No error (e)
- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Cfalse
- 4Dfalse
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Answer : 5. "E"
Q:Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence.
One who hides away on a ship to obtain a free passage.
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5f2bf4a6b57ade01cafbbc24- 1Stowawaytrue
- 2Shipwrightfalse
- 3Compositorfalse
- 4Stokerfalse
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Answer : 1. "Stowaway "
Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement.
If you park your car here, the traffic police has fined you.
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5d7f2e8250132761b5efa81aIf you park your car here, the traffic police has fined you.
- 1fine youfalse
- 2will fine youtrue
- 3fined youfalse
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Answer : 2. "will fine you"
Q:Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .
If you set your mind to a goal, you eventually achieve it.
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5f310f71c006da57832a9663- 1you will eventually achieve ittrue
- 2you would eventually have achieved itfalse
- 3you would eventually achieve itfalse
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Answer : 1. "you will eventually achieve it"
Q: The company have (A)/ thousands of customers (B) happy with its service. (C)/ No error (D).
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5f310bae8fc12265db036069- 1Cfalse
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Answer : 3. "A"
Q:What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.
The latest symbol of modernity for the rural people is –
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5d7f7f05b4835d15d82018b6Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.
- 1The bicyclefalse
- 2The wristwatchfalse
- 3The transistorfalse
- 4The synthetic clothtrue
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