English Quiz for SBI PO | IBPS – Set 139

In Eng, Quiz
May 31, 2016

1) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) The only persons in the theatre
b) on that stormy night
c) were the staff of the theatre
d) and me

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Answer d) and me. When a noun (or pronoun) is used as the Subject of a verb, it is said to be in the Nominative Case and when it is used as the Object of a verb, it is said to be in the Objective (or Accusative) case. In the sentence given, the staff and the person speaking form the subject of the verb ‘were’ and hence the Nominative Case of the First Person-Singular i.e. ‘I’ should be used instead of the Accusative Case i.e. ‘me’.

2) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Sunita is more talkative than
b) anybody in the class because
c) he is not afraid of the teacher
d) who is his own brother

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Answer b) anybody in the class because. When a comparison is instituted by means of a Comparative followed by ‘than’, the thing compared must be always excluded from the class of things with which it is compared, by using ‘other’ or some such words

3) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) There is only the banana
b) and one apple in the refrigerator
c) so let us go to the market
d) and buy some more fruits

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Answer a) There is only the banana. The reference here is to one banana and not a particular one.

4) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Like his brother who did not wear his helmet
b) and was injured in the accident
c) Rajan was always careful
d) and wore his helmet without fail

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Answer a) Like his brother who did not wear his helmet. e adverb unlike is to be used here as logical reasoning suggests

5) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) We were not worried about being late
b) since we knew that our other friends
c) would have been caught in a worse traffic jam
d) than us

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Answer d) than us. The past perfect tense ‘had been’ is used here to denote an action completed before a certain moment in the past

6) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) The part of Madras that interested us the most
b) were the beach and the museum
c) which we recommend to all friends
d) who plan to visit that city

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Answer a) The part of Madras that interested us the most. A verb must agree with its subject in number and person. The plural ‘parts’ fits in with the verb ‘were’

7) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Although Greek and Latin were
b) of extreme important during their day
c) they had become dead languages
d) by the beginning of the fifteenth century

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Answer b) of extreme important during their day. ‘Importance’ is a noun; ‘important’ is an adjective

8) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Amphibians are creatures which
b) live equally effortlessly
c) in water and land are found
d) in all the continents of the world

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Answer c) in water and land are found. The cumulative conjunction ‘and’ is needed here to add one statement to another

9) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Near the pond was standing
b) a dog, a donkey and a cow
c) but when I threw a stone at them
d) it was only the dog that ran away

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Answer a) Near the pond was standing. were standing

10) Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Psychiatrists claim that the dream process
b) can offer insights into
c) how the brain has worked, though
d) it cannot be taken as the final evidence

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Answer c) how the brain has worked, though. how the brain works. The simple present tense is needed as part (b) indicates