IBPS PO Quiz For English Language | 19 - 08 - 17

Read each of the five parts of sentences to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, mark your answer as (5).

1. Defence Minister come under Opposition attack in the Rajya Sabha (1)/ for his statements on the surgical strike, (2)/ India's nuclear doctrine and other issues (3)/ and sought his explanation on the issue. (4)/ No error (5)

2. Turkey condemned a new Israeli law legalising dozen (1)/ of Jewish settlements built on private Palestinian land in (2)/ the occupied West Bank, as a senior government minister (3)/ was visiting Tel Aviv in the first such trip in seven years. (4)/ No error (5)

3. A police sub-inspector was arrested (1)/ by vigilance sleuths (2)/ for allegedly accepting a (3)/ bribe in Bihar's Arwal district. (4)/ No error (5)

4. Two new swine flu deaths were reported in (1)/ the government hospital, bringing the (2)/ flu-related toll to six so far, (3)/ even as 15 persons are taking treatment in a hospital. (4)/ No error (5)

5. China will test the performance (1)/ of the world's second large (2)/ solar-powered drone in near-space (3)/ flight this year. (4)/ No error (5)

6. TMC MPs staged protest on Parliament premises, pitching for (1)/ state funding of polls to combat corruption (2)/ and also ask national political parties to come (3)/ clean on their funding sources. (4)/ No error (5)

7. India needs to use sea more for connecting with (1)/ neighbouring countries but this networking should (2)/ happen within a "framework, legal certainty and (3)/ understanding" about how nations should behave (4)/ No error (5)

8. An Indian national involved in (1)/ cross-border drug smuggling (2)/ were arrested in Nepal (3)/ with five kilograms of hashish. (4)/ No error (5)

9. More than 600 Delhi Police men assisted (1)/ by sniffer dogs scanned the inhabited (2)/ and forest areas of the JNU campus to (3)/ search for clues to trace MSc student Najeeb Ahmed. (4)/ No error (5)

10. The Election Commission has decided to launch a new app (1)/ in Haryana and other regions that will help electoral officers (2)/ in communicating among themselves and (3)/ boost monitoring of voters'' data across election process. (4)/ No error (5)

1. Answer- (1) Use ‘came’ instead of ‘come’
2. Answer- (1) Use ‘dozens’ instead of ‘dozen’
3. Answer- (5) No error
4. Answer- (4) Use ‘the’ instead of ‘a’
5. Answer- (2) Use ‘largest’ instead of ‘large’
6. Answer- (3) Use ‘asked’ instead of ‘ask’
7. Answer- (5) No error
8. Answer- (3) Use ‘was’ instead of ‘were’
9. ANSWER- (3) use ‘forested’ instead of ‘forest’
10. ANSWER- (4) use ‘during’ instead of ‘across’