English Language For CWE-Clerks-V- Preliminary Examination
Q.1-5. Read each part of the sentence 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).
Q.1. Film viewers claim that (1)/ the number of scenes depicting alcohol consumption (2)/ have increased dramatically over (3)/ the last decade. (4)/ No error (5)
Q.2. Forty percent of the people alive today have (1)/ never made a phone call, but (2)/thirty percent still have no electricity connections (3)/ to their homes. (4)/ No error (5)
Q.3. When he was shipwrecked (1)/ on a desert island, coconuts and some other (2)/ fruits formed (3)/ the basis of the sailor’s diet. (4)/ No error (5)
Q.4. It is welcome that India’s ranking in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index (1)/ has improved several notches to 130th (from 142nd last year), (2)/ but much remains to be done (3)/ to fast-track regulatory approvals and clearances. (4)/ No error (5)
Q.5. As India rapidly globalise, (1)/ it provides an opportunity to orchestrate domestic tax policies (2)/ to keep pace with global business, (3) and also to support enterprise. (4)/ No error (5)
Q.6-10. Which of the Phrases(1), (2) (3) and (4) given below each sentence should replace the phrases printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as it is given and no correction is required, mark (5) as the answer.
6. The rain helping above recharged the surface water resources and also provided water to agricultural land.
1. Helped to recharge
2. Had helped over recharge
3. Helps recharges to
4. Help recharge in
5. No correction required
7. There is some believe among people that feeding pigeons is akin to doing good work, so pigeons never go short of food.
1. A believe amongst people
2. Some belief amongst
3. Some believe among people
4. A belief among people
5. No correction required
8. Tigers are bad in needed of guards to protect them from poaching and other threats.
1. Badly need in
2. Badly in need of
3. Bad needs on
4. Badly on needs off
5. No correction required
9. Many youngsters taken up written at a task and write for competing and not for expressing.
1. Taken up writes for
2. Took up writing where
3. Take up writing as
4. Taken up write on
5. No correction required
10. In case the sirens or horns produce sound in excess of the prescribed limit, these should be removed under the vehicles concern.
1.From the vehicles concerned
2. Over the concerning vehicles
3.Behind the vehicles concerns
4.Into the vehicles concerns
Answers
Q.1. (3) has should replace have
Q.2. (2) and should replace but
Q.3. (5) no error
Q.4. (5) no error
Q.5. (1) globalises should replace globalise
Q.6. (1) ‘Helped’ should be used as the sentence is about the past activity.
Q.7. (4) ‘Belief’ is to be used – a noun is required.
Q.8. (2) ‘Badly’ should come before ‘in need’ – which serves as an adverb.
Q.9. (3) ‘Take up’ means ‘choose’.
Q.10. (1) ‘Concerned’ functions as an adjective, in the sentence.
