PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SPOTTING ERRORS

PREPARATORY SET-50 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): Read the sentence to find out whether there is an error in it. The error, if any, will in one part of the sentence. The number corresponding to that part will be your answer. If the given sentence is correct as it is, mark the answer as option (5) i.e., ‘No error’. (ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

 

Question No : 1

Mouhanad Salha would like nothing (A)/ better than to work but since arriving in the (B)/ Netherlands on late 2014, he (C)/ has managed to do so for just one week. (D)/ No error (E)

(1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) D

(5) E

Question No : 2

Before the code came in, Promoters (A)/ were able to stay on as managers in the (B)/ stricken firms, which some unscrupulous moguls (C)/ used as an opportunity to drain them at cash. (D)/ No error (E)

(1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) D

(5) E

Question No : 3

During his spectacular rise from London bean counter (A)/ to the globe-trotting boss of WPP, the advertising powerhouse he (B)/ created out of a backstreet wire-basket and (C)/ trolley company, Sir Martin Sorrell was rarely sentimental. (D)/ No error (E)

(1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) D

(5) E

Question No : 4

The Bralima brewery in Kinshasa, the capital (A)/ of the Democratic Republic of Congo (B)/ (DRC), is an island of modernity around a city (C)/ where chaos is the norm. (D)/ No error (E)

(1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) D

(5) E

Question No : 5

When flag carriers such as (A)/ British Airways (BA) ruled the skies,(B)/ only the rich could afford to (C)/ fly by the Atlantic. (D)/ No error (E)

(1) A

(2) B

(3) C

(4) D

(5) E