General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
The thing about anger is that it can either been a helpful emotion or a discouraging one.
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64243c6032185cce370daf7b- 1a helpful emotion or a discouraging onefalse
- 2The thing about angerfalse
- 3No errorfalse
- 4is that it can either beentrue
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Answer : 4. "is that it can either been"
Q:Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Ants, like most insects, have (1) ______ are known as compound eyes. This means their eyes have multiple lenses, (2) ______ in general, most species of ant do not have particularly great eyes for seeing (3) ______ far. Ants can detect movement and see the areas around them, but (4) ______ more on senses and information they get from their legs and antennae (5) ______ from their eyes.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.
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643528f91ce944a93e99d7bcAnts, like most insects, have (1) ______ are known as compound eyes. This means their eyes have multiple lenses, (2) ______ in general, most species of ant do not have particularly great eyes for seeing (3) ______ far. Ants can detect movement and see the areas around them, but (4) ______ more on senses and information they get from their legs and antennae (5) ______ from their eyes.
- 1whetherfalse
- 2sofalse
- 3buttrue
- 4Ratherfalse
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Answer : 3. "but "
Q: Select the most appropriate word which means the same as the group of words given.
Stop something from burning
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643fcb185e6b046f1b0ac9c5Stop something from burning
- 1Preventfalse
- 2Extinguishtrue
- 3Torchfalse
- 4Scorchfalse
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Answer : 2. "Extinguish "
Q:In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
A no-examination policy would kill the competitive spirit among the students. It is important to encourage healthy competition in today’s times where all admissions and job recruitments are based on elimination. Also, in the total absence of examinations, (1)______ who truly deserve may not get fair (2)______, while those who need to (3)______ may not get the right (4)______. Moreover, examinations help to assess the (5)______ of teaching.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.
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64d0dc12da3cc05b1e5c5bd8- 1consequencesfalse
- 2expensefalse
- 3quantityfalse
- 4effectivenesstrue
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Answer : 4. "effectiveness"
Q:Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.
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646c802a45f1450a80e3e1c1If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.
- 1bargainsfalse
- 2listensfalse
- 3probestrue
- 4imbibesfalse
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Answer : 3. "probes"
Q: Parts of the following sentence have been underlined and given as options. Select the option that contains an error.
Has Gita any. previous knowledge of work with junior colleagues?
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64787a914e2d039e7bd311abHas Gita any. previous knowledge of work with junior colleagues?
- 1withfalse
- 2Hasfalse
- 3anyfalse
- 4worktrue
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Answer : 4. "work"
Q: Select the sentences that contains no spelling errors.
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64787bbfd0c6d8fd08536b75- 1Our government has launched a relatively extensive set of reforms for aborgines in the country.false
- 2Our government has launched a relatively extensive set of reforms for aborigines in the country.true
- 3Our government has launched a relatively extensive set of reforms for aboregynes in the country.false
- 4Our government has launched a relatively extensive set of reforms for aborigynes in the country.false
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Answer : 2. "Our government has launched a relatively extensive set of reforms for aborigines in the country."
Q: Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
Monika has learn French for a long time.
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64c3a96666a41f484c1db532- 1has learningfalse
- 2has been learntfalse
- 3has been learningtrue
- 4No substitution requiredfalse
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Answer : 3. "has been learning"
Explanation :
The correct sentence should be:
Monika has been learning French for a long time.
Explanation: The verb form "learn" should be changed to "learning," and the auxiliary verb "has been" should be used to indicate the ongoing action of learning that has been happening for a period of time.

