English: Error Spotting for Upcoming Exams – Set 135

Directions: In each of the following questions there are sentences. There is error in two parts. Mark the option which contains error parts as your answer. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer.

1. (A) When elections come to a city, as they will to Bengaluru in a couple of months, they bring /(B) with them a sharp reminder of the difference between the politics of the periphery /(C) of the city and that of the city centre. The period between /(D) elections is dominated by the politics of policymaking.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C &D
   Both A & D
   No Error
   Option E
   

    

2. (A) As the rallies unfold around the periphery of the city they also provide insights into how /(B) far political parties have developed their art of theatrical performance. /(C) The rallies are often used to present the leader as someone ordinary people cannot treat as ‘one of them’. And Indian /(D) politicals have developed fairly successful methods of achieving this objective.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C & D
   Both A & D
   No Error
   Option D
   D. politicals = politicians A. omit “the” before rallies

    

3. (A) There is also a great emphasis on the entry of the leader on the stage. Mr Modi used a helicopter for /(B) his entry into the recent BJP rally in Bengaluru. Mr HD Kumaraswamy used the theatrical method/(C) of entering from behind the audience and then weaving /(D) his way to the stage atop of a bus.
   Both A & B
   Both B & D
   Both C & D
   Both A & D
   No Error
   Option B
   b. method = option d. omit “of” before “a bus”

    

4. (A) The transition from the distancing of the leader in mass politics to a more accessible /(B) leader between elections is not always easy. Indeed, many mass leaders failed in this transformation, /(C) making them unsuitable /(D) for the requirement of governance.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C & D
   Both B & D
   No Error
   Option D
   b. failed = fail d. requirement = requirements

    

5. (A) The controversy around Sunny Leone in Bengaluru has added another /(B) dimension to the debate on fringe groups in our cities. Prompted presumably by her cinematic history, /(C) some activists had protested against Leone’s plans to perform at a New Year’s Eve celebration. The Government and the police were ambivalent enough about granting the required /(D) permissions to encourage the actor to cancel the programme.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C & D
   Both D & A
   No Error
   Option E
   

    

6. (A) Once we take the numbers present at the protests out of the equation what distinguishes a /(B) fringe group from a civil society protest would usually be that civil society movements has /(C) a more rationally and morally justified case to make. This is a view that may /(D) have been dominant in the past, but is beginning to fray at the edges.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C & D
   Both D & B
   No Error
   Option B
   b. has = have c. rationally = rational

    

7. (A) The task of ensuring the conflict does not spill on in the streets would then fall on /(B) other institutions. Other major cities in the world have fallen back on their /(C) elected institutions to arrive at a broad consensus. This option is unfortunately very constrained in the Indian cities. Civil /(D) society typically has little more than contempt for elected representatives.
   Both A & C
   Both B & D
   Both C & A
   Both A & D
   No Error
   Option A
   a. spill on to the streets c. omit “the” before Indian

    

8. (A) At a different level, Jeetender Sharma brings his vast two-wheeler industry knowledge to his /(B) start-up Okinawa Scooters. He was with Honda Motors for 15 years and was part /(C) of the company’s launch team. Before that, he’d also worked at a one-time two-wheeler giant LML. Okinawa /(D) has two electric models, the Ridge and the Praise, and already has 7,500 vehicles on the road.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C & D
   Both D & A
   No Error
   Option E
   

    

9. (A) Getting over the range hump is still EVs’ greatest barrier. Sharma says Okinawa’s Ridge scooter, /(B) which uses lead acid batteries, has a range of 80km-90km and /(C) the company’s new lithium ion Praise can /(D) travel 170km-200km with a single charge.
   Both A & B
   Both B & C
   Both C & D
   Both D & A
   No Error
   Option C
   d. with = on c. new = newer

    

10. (A) The Narendra Modi government’s artless political responses to the disquieting /(B) disclosures on the ₹11,400-crore fraud on the Punjab National Bank, /(C) perpetrated by celebrity diamantaire Nirav Modi and his jeweller-uncle Mehul Choksi, are revealing in the extreme. Barely before the full contours of the scandal and the modus operandi which had been /(D) made public, the BJP lined up its big guns to take potshots at the erstwhile UPA regime, particularly the Congress.
    Both A & B
    Both B & C
    Both C & D
    Both D & A
    No Error
    Option B
    b. on = about c. omit “which ” before had been