Revision Overall (Mod)
Description: Revision Overall (Mod) | |
Number of Questions: 15 | |
Created by: Avani Handa | |
Tags: Revision Overall (Mod) Error Identification Best Expression |
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) In this modern age there is a growing trend of viewing a country as a whole,
(B) with its people, topography, and general conditions in natural relation with each other.
(C) The process by which the nature control the imbalance created by human beings is peculiar.
(D) It is not easy to be sure today how accurate an observer he was.
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) Workmen were allowed into prison to repair some damaged cells. (B) Only those schemes can succeed which promise to deliver the goods. (C) Art must be the faithful expression of a society, (D) since it is an undeniable witnesses of its spirit and manners for future generations.
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) Nuclear weapons are like the bull's horns -- we cannot just cut the horns (B) and then believe it is all right to let the bull go on living. (C) The reason the developed nations achieved modernization is that they are able to rob the developing nations of all manner of materials, (D) and discard the leftover garbage in every place imaginable.
Direction: The following question has four sentences. Some of the sentences may have error in grammatical or syntactical usage. Find the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically.
A. We now come to the poets who have been called metaphysical and who must get ampler treatment. B. The cause he had at heart and for which he risked fortune and life was not furthered by this action. C. There are few who can sit at ease in your house and that you are truly glad to have with you. D. We were overpowered by the sun's heat, which was shining directly overhead.
Directions: The following sentences or parts thereof may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the sentence(s)/part(s) thereof having the error.
(A) In the present age we see parallels in the manufacture of such needless, (B) and often harmful things like trinkets and gewgaws, (C) cars and cameras, televisions, jets, and computers, (D) which only waste resources and spew forth pollution.
Direction: The following question has four sentences. Some of the sentences may have error in grammatical or syntactical usage. Find the sentence(s) that make(s) coherent sense
A. The king with the Lords and Commons constitute the British Government. B. I hope to show you that neither ducking nor disgust have spoiled my appetite. C. If she or you have resolved to be miserable I cannot help it. D. It sounds strange to say Gandhi, Nehru, J.P. or Rajaji were not shrewd politicians.
Direction: The following question has four sentences. Some of the sentences may have error in grammatical or syntactical usage. Find the sentence(s) that make(s) coherent sense
A. Rising inventories, when unaccompanied correspondingly by increases in rates, can lead to production cutback. B. If I were he, I would lay that manuscript on the sofa and keep it away from the kitchen table. C. The contest judges were told to give the prize to whoever drew the best picture. D. The phenomena of public education is another example of the working of democracy.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The Health Minister of the state acknowledged that despite some stellar initiatives by social activists and altruistic doctors, an extraordinary high percentage of their rural people do not have access to quality health care
Direction: The following question has four sentences. Some of the sentences may have error in grammatical or syntactical usage. Find the sentence(s) that make(s) coherent sense
A. The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural” to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives or nothing that has been synthesized. B. Every independent candidate except Rajan and her was defeated in the election. C. Computers are becoming faster, more powerful and more reliable, and so too are modems, they are the devices to allow, two or more computers to share information over regular telephone lines. D. The coal strike reduced the country's energy reserves, which caused unemployment among the workers.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
For every new power and possibility that technology brings, technological progress takes away other components of humanity and so, the new edge of technology may need the new age of the enduring legacies of spiritual practice.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
A retired Indian army veteran, who believed he'd been saved by God for a special reason, Anna Hazare led the movement for political and bureaucratic accountability, the movement that ultimately forced the Indian government to table the 'lokpal bill' in the parliament.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The man who thinks has impressions and emotions, not of love or hate, but of the effort of his thought itself, with the pain and the joy, the love and the hate joined to it.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
Rather than seeking to reprimand their child for a lie, parents are better off focusing on what they can do to prevent its happening again.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
While nature takes millions of years to effect even a minor change, human being is trying to evolve these evolutionary changes in decades, but one should be ready for the ill effects of the haste.
Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.
The great conflict generated by the debate in urban middle-class homes over love versus arranged marriages is precisely about whether people belong to themselves or to wider communities.