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. If there is no error, mark your answer as (5).
1. The benchmark BSE Sensex extended (1)/ gains for the third straight day by surging about 125 points, (2)/ and the NSE Nifty again reclaimed the 8,800-level in early trade despite (3)/ of disappointing macroeconomic data. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (4) remove ‘of’
2. The Minister of State for External Affairs (1)/ say that terrorism (2)/ was the stumbling block (3)/ between normalising ties with Pakistan. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (2) Use ‘said’ instead of say’
3. The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (1)/ refuted charges that his state (2)/ was worse in law and order front (3)/ compared to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (3) Use ‘on’ instead of ‘in’
4. It was a relatively warm day in the (1)/ national capital with (2)/ the maximum temperature settle at (3)/ 24.7 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season's average. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (3) Use ‘settling’ instead of ‘settle’
5. A woman and her son were found (1)/ dead in a pool of blood inside (2)/ a flat, with the police suspecting that the (3)/ later shot his mother and killed himself. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (4) Use ‘latter’ instead of ‘later’
6. The Centre will take a call on raising the (1)/ income ceiling for availing reservation (2)/ benefits under the Other Backward Class (OBC) category only (3)/ after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (5) No error
7. Government informed the Supreme Court (1)/ that a proposed amendment in Lokpal (2)/ Bill is pending before Parliament (3)/ and is likelier to be taken up in March. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (4) Use ‘likely’ instead of ‘likelier’
8. NASA scientists have shortlisted (1)/ three potential landing (2)/ sites for the upcoming Mars (3)/ rover mission that is set to launch in 2020. (4)/ No error (5)
ANSWER- (5) No error
9. Indian outsourcing companies are beset with rising demands (1)/ from investors for a buyback of shares even as (2)/ they grapple with slowing growing and the spectre of rising (3)/ protectionism in the United States- their largest market. (4)/ No error (5)
Answer- (3) Use ‘growth’ instead of ‘growing’
10. Pak's military continues to support terrorist (1)/ groups that attack (2)/ India to keep it "off balance" and draw (3)/ international mediation into dispute over Kashmir. (4)/ No error (5)
Answer- (3) Use ‘draws’ instead of ‘draw’
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