Direction (Qs.1-5): The following questions consist of a sentence with a highlighted phrase which may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the most suitable option that will replace the incorrect highlighted phrase to form a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence. If the given highlighted phrase is correct, choose option (5), i.e., “No correction required”, as your answer.
Question No : 1
Combine effects of growing populations, rising incomes and expanding cities will see the demand rising exponentially.
(1) Combining an effect
(2) Combined effects of
(3) Combine the effect of
(4) Combination of the effect
(5) No correction required
Question No : 2
Heavily invest in technology has resulted in more than half the transactions taking place online, reducing banks’ dependence on costly branches.
(1) Heavy investment in
(2) A heavy investment
(3) If we invest heavily
(4) To invest heavily in
(5) No correction required
Question No : 3
Experts reckon that in the next four years steelmaking capacity has increased to 50 percent in the Middle East, 20 percent in Africa and 10 percent in America.
(1) increasing upto
(2) will have increased by
(3) has been increased
(4) has an increase off
(5) No correction required
Question No : 4
The report stressed the need to broaden access to health, education and has promoting financial inclusion to bring down inequality levels.
(1) as well as promote
(2) which is a promotion of
(3) promotion of
(4) has been promoting
(5) No correction required
Question No : 5
Climate scientists say that meteorological factors are played an important role in the high pollution levels detected in the city.
(1) could have played
(2) will like playing
(3) were played
(4) playing
(5) No correction required