English: Error Spotting for Upcoming Exam – Set 105

In each of the following sentences, find if any part of the sentence (1), (2), (3) or (4) contains error. If there is no error mark “No Error” as you answer.

1. (1)The Centre’s concerted crackdown on shell /(2) companies has taken another controversial turn in the ministry of corporate /(3) affairs recently commencing the process of disqualifying and /(4) ‘naming and shaming’ the directors associated with such firms.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: in = with
   
2. (1)The Government’s persistent efforts to put in/(2)  place strong deterrents against the scourge of money-laundering /(3)  using the shell company route are welcomed, but jumping the gun on penal action without /(4) making a cast-iron case against suspected firms, can prove counter-productive.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option C
   Explanation: welcomed= welcome
   
3. (1)Post-demonetisation, in its keenness to showcase/(2)  the success of its anti-black money offensive, /(3) the Government has ratcheted its drive against shell companies/(4)  that liberally dot India’s corporate landscape.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option C
   Explanation: ratcheted “up”
   
4. (1)A few listed ‘shell’/(2)  companies has even/(3)  been able to prove viable /(4) operations at SAT hearings.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: has = have
   
5. (1)There has been a very recent attempt to consolidate /(2) fragmented laws and expedite the process through /(3) the newly enacted Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code,/(4)  which took effect from April 1.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option E 

6. (1)The growing water demands in Tibet /(2)  and the option available in principle to /(3)  China of building water storage and transfer projects /(4) on the Yarlung have given birth to such fears in India.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option A
   Explanation: demands = demand
   
7. (1)The normalised melt index of the Brahmaputra is merely in the /(2)  range of 0.15-0.2, signifying that snow and glacier melt, /(3) the main source of run-off in the Tibetan region, /(4)  contributes negligibly to the total flow.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: glacier = glacial
   
8. (1)The concern has aggravated with the /(2) news of Chinese plans to build a 1,000-km-long tunnel /(3) to divert water from the Brahmaputra River /(4)  in Tibet to the parched Xinjiang region.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option E 

9. (1)Data published by Chinese scholar Jiang and team (2) showed that the total annual outflow of the Yarlung River from China /(3)  is estimated to be about 31 BCM while the annual flow of Brahmaputra at Bahadurabad, /(4) the gauging station near the end of the sub-basin in Bangladesh, is about 606 BCM.
   A) (1)
   B) (2)
   C) (3)
   D) (4)
   E) NE
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: showed = show
   
10. (1)The flow volume and discharge in the Yarlung River /(2)  is not sufficient to generate and transport carry the very large /(3)  sediment load as in prevalent /(4) in the downstream Brahmaputra.
    A) (1)
    B) (2)
    C) (3)
    D) (4)
    E) NE
    
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       Option E 

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