PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SPOTTING ERRORS

PREPARATORY SET-80 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): A sentence divided into four parts (A), (B), (C) and (D) is given. The errors are in two parts of the sentence. Determine the parts which require correction and mark it as your answer. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark the answer as “No error”.

 

Question No : 1

Owing to more or less herbivorous habits, (A)/ the intestine is exceedingly elongate and much convoluted, (B)/ being several times large (C)/and of a greater calibre than after the metamorphosis. (D)

(1) (A)-(B)

(2) (C)-(D)

(3) (B)-(C)

(4) (A)-(C)

(5) No error

Question No : 2

Burr was unscrupulous, insincere (A)/ and notoriously moral, (B)/ but he was pleasing in his manners, generous to a fault, (C)/ and was intensely devote to his wife and daughter. (D)

(1) (A)-(C)

(2) (B)-(D)

(3) (B)-(C)

(4) (C)-(D)

(5) No error

Question No : 3

The success of a restaurant (A)/ rested more (B)/ on out-of-date memories (C)/ then the current excellence of its bill of fare. (D)

(1) (A)-(D)

(2) (B)-(C)

(3) (C)-(D)

(4) (B)-(D)

(5) No error

Question No : 4

Her dazzling achievements as a general (A)/ have obscured his much sober qualities as a ruler, (B)/ and even the sound strategy, with which he aimed (C)/ to be master of the narrow seas. (D)

(1) (A)-(B)

(2) (C)-(D)

(3) (B)-(C)

(4) (A)-(C)

(5) No error

Question No : 5

You would continue (A)/ to receive dividends for the stock (B)/ in you’re names so there will be (C)/ sufficient funds for you all to move on. (D)

(1) (A)-(C)

(2) (B)-(D)

(3) (B)-(C)

(4) (C)-(D)

(5) No error