English Quiz – set 107

1. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Nuclear waste will still being
b) radioactive even after twenty thousand years,
c) so it must be disposed
d) of very carefully.
e) No error

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Answer a) Nuclear waste will still being. Here, Nuclear waste will still remain/be…should be used.

2. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) My friend lived at the top
b) of an old house
c) which attic had been
d) converted into a flat.
e) No error

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Answer c) which attic had been. Here, whose attic had been…should be used. Whose id used to say which person or thing you mean.

3. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) A public safety advertising
b) campaign in Russia
c) hope to draw attention
d) of pedestrians crossing the road.
e) No error

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Answer c) hope to draw attention. Here, subject i.e. A public safety advertising campaign is singular. Hence, hopes to draw attention…should be used here.

4. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) A cash prize was
b) award to the most
c) successful salesman of the year
d) by the President of the company.
e) No error

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Answer b) award to the most. look at the structure of the sentence in passive voice of past simple. Hence, awarded to the most…should be used.

5. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) The Renaissance was
b) a time to ‘re-awakening’
c) in both the arts
d) and the sciences.
e) No error

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Answer b) a time to ‘re-awakening’. Here, a time of reawakening…should be used.

6. Many leading members of the opposition party __________ to justify the party’s decision.
a) having tries
b) has tried
c) have been trying
d) tries
e) is trying

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Answer c) have been trying

7. The state-of-the-art school is ___________ with a medical clinic and fitness centre
a) establish
b) illustrative
c) having
d) equipped
e) compromising

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Answer d) equipped

8. The Bhagavad Gita is a part of the Mahabharata, but it stands __________ and is _____________ in itself.
a) dependent, incomplete
b) together, justified
c) separate, dignified
d) apart, complete
e) united, connected

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Answer d) apart, complete

9. The artist’s work of art is worthy __________ praise.
a) for
b) of
c) to
d) about
e) to be

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Answer b) of

10. The charity _________ most of its money through private donations.
a) receives
b) borrows
c) uses
d) proposes
e) invests

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Answer a) receives