English: Error Spotting for Upcoming Exam – Set 101 (IBPS PO 2017 Pattern)

In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. There is error in one of the parts. Mark the option which contains parts (A, B, C, D, E) which do not contain error. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer

1. A) The government recognised street vending
   B) as not only a source of self-employment
   C) for the poor in cities and towns,but also as a
   D) means to provide “affordable” as well as “convenient”
   E) services for a majority of the urban population.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option A
   Explanation: for = to
   
2. A) The law provides for the constitution of a town
   B) vending committee in each local authority to ensure
   C) implementation of the provisions of the Act.
   D) The committee makes decisions on various aspects,
   E) including determination of natural market.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option E

3. A) Forty percent of the
   B) committee members are
   C) from street vendors to be
   D) selected through election,
   E) of which one-third shall be women.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option 4
   Explanation: from “among”
   
4. A) While India aspires to
   B) jointmanship in the
   C) three services, statements
   D) over the last few weeks point
   E) disturbingly to renewed inter-service rivalry.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option 3
   Explanation: in = among
   
5. A) To avoid arbitrariness of authorities,
   B) the law had provided for a survey of all
   C) existing street vendors, and a subsequent
   D) survey at least once in every five years, and
   E)  issue of certificates of vending to all the street vendors.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CEAB
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option 3
   Explanation: omit “in”
   
6. A) His comments are significant against
   B) the backdrop of the government’s sanctioning
   C) six AH-64 Apache helicopters for
   D) the Army, something the
   E) service has been seeking for a while.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option 3
   Explanation: government’s = government
   
7. A) In turn, speaking at a seminar by the Centre
   B) for Land Warfare Studies early last month,
   C) Army Chief General Bipin Rawat gave a peek
   D) into his idea of tri-service integration when
   E) he said that the “supremacy and primacy of the Army”.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option E

8. A) The question is, will these developments
   B) unleash another round of inter-service turf
   C) war and further delay several important
   D) decisions on tri-service integration such as
   E) the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Forces?
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option 5

9. A) Despite the NDA government
   B) according high priority to the issue
   C) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
   D) himself sitting through presentations,
   E) progress has minimal.
   1) ABCD
   2) BCDE
   3) CDEA
   4) DEAB
   5) All are Correct
   
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      Option 1
   Explanation: has been
   
10. A) What the country need is a full-fledged
    B) five star officer. The four star officer
    C) would serve no real purpose except
    D) adding to the already existing protocol
    E) nightmare and complicating the situation further.
    1) ABCD
    2) BCDE
    3) CDEA
    4) DEAB
    5) All are Correct
    
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       Option 2
    Explanation: need = needs