PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SPOTTING ERRORS

PREPARATORY SET-23 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-9): Find out the error, if any. If there is no error, the answer is (5), i.e. No error. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

 

Question No : 1

The Congress party stood for (1)/ implementation of the (2)/ Nuclear Liability Bill and was ready (3)/ to stake their political existence. (4)/ No error (5)

(1) The Congress party stood for

(2) implementation of the

(3) Nuclear Liability Bill and was ready

(4) to stake their political existence

(5) No error

Question No : 2

He is the most (1)/ intelligent and also (2)/ the very talented (3)/ student of the college. (4)/ No error (5)

(1) He is the most

(2) intelligent and also

(3) the very talented

(4) student of the college

(5) No error

Question No : 3

The soul of a constitution lies (1)/ in its vision of the kind of (2)/ society that the country will seek (3)/ to build trough its institution.(4)/ No error (5)

(1) The soul of a constitution lies

(2) in its vision of the kind of

(3) society that the country will seek

(4) to build trough its institution

(5) No error

Question No : 4

No sooner the (1)/ teacher enter the (2)/ class than the (3)/ students stood up.(4)/No error(5)

(1) No sooner the

(2) teacher enter the

(3) class than the

(4) students stood up

(5) No error

Question No : 5

Despite of their best efforts (1)/ they failed to retain (2)/ the contract due to (3)/ unwanted political interference. (4)/ No error (5)

(1) Despite of their best efforts

(2) they failed to retain

(3) the contract due to

(4) unwanted political interference

(5) No error

Question No : 6

(1) The Daltonian would say that each/ (2) of these weights represents certain group of atoms,/ (3) and that these groups can replace, or/ (4) combine with, each other, to form new molecules./ (5) No error

(1) The Daltonian would say that each

(2) of these weights represents certain group of atoms

(3) and that these groups can replace

(4) combine with, each other, to form new molecules

(5) No error

Question No : 7

(1) Countess Mary wanted to/ (2) tell her attendant that man did not/ (3) live by bread alone and that he/ (4) had attached too many importance to these matters./ (5) No error

(1) Countess Mary wanted to

(2) tell her attendant that man did not

(3) live by bread alone and that he

(4) had attached too many importance to these matters

(5) No error

Question No : 8

(1) In societies where a large percentage of/ (2) income is necessary just to buy food, having/ (3) volatile food prices will mean hunger more sooner/ (4) or later, no matter how good the factory jobs are./ (5) No error

(1) In societies where a large percentage of

(2) income is necessary just to buy food, having

(3) volatile food prices will mean hunger more sooner

(4) or later, no matter how good the factory jobs are

(5) No error

Question No : 9

(1) He found the light of the sun/ (2) to be 300 times more intense than/ (3) that of the moon, and thus made some of/ (4) an earliest measurements in photometry./ (5) No error

(1) He found the light of the sun

(2) to be 300 times more intense than

(3) that of the moon, and thus made some of

(4) an earliest measurements in photometry

(5) No error