Directions: In the questions given below, a sentence has been broken into four fragments. You are required to identify the part that contains an error and mark it as your answer. In case, all fragments are incorrect, please select ‘No error’ as your answer.
Question 1.
Find the error in one of the following fragments/parts.
A.India has always been torn between an urge to sit at
B.the high table of global negotiations and being
C.seen by the rest of the world as a deal breaker
D.on issues such as global trade and climate change.
E. No error
Question 2.
Find the error in one of the following fragments/parts.
A.Despite the unethical business
B.practices adopted by publishers of
C.such journals, the number of researchers which
D.publish in them has been increasing at an alarming rate.
E. No error
Question 3.
Find the error in one of the following fragments/parts.
A.The principle task of the Finance Commission is
B.to assess the revenue and cost disabilities of the
C.States and make recommendations to offset
D.these disabilities through tax devolution and grants.
E. No error
Question 4.
Find the error in one of the following fragments/parts.
A.Since the essence of nonalignment
B.was freedom of thought and action,
C.India insisted that it was valid
D.weather there was one bloc or no bloc.
E. No error
Question 5.
Find the error in one of the following fragments/parts.
A.The United States has identified both China
B.and Russia as advisories, whose leaders,
C. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, are strong and
D.determined to stand up to a faltering Donald Trump.
E. No error
Explanations
Question 1-
Correct Option: E
All the fragments are correct.
Hence, option E is correct.
Question 2-
Correct Option: C
Fragment C is incorrect. It uses incorrect pronoun which instead of who. Who is used for living beings while which is used for inanimate objects.
Correct sentence: Despite the unethical business practices adopted by publishers of such journals, the number of researchers who publish in them has been increasing at an alarming rate.
Hence, option C is correct.
Question 3-
Correct Option: A
Fragment A has an error due to use of the word principle which means a fundamental truth or proposition. The correct word would be principal which means first in order of importance/ main.
Correct sentence: The principal task of the Finance Commission is to assess the revenue and cost disabilities of the States and make recommendations to offset these disabilities through tax devolution and grants.
Hence, option A is correct.
Question 4-
Correct Option: D
Fragment D is erroneous due to use of the word weather which is used to refer to the climate instead of the conjunction whether.
Correct sentence: Since the essence of nonalignment was freedom of thought and action, India insisted that it was valid whether there was one bloc or no bloc.
Hence, option D is correct.
Question 5-
Correct Option: B
Fragment B is erroneous due to use of the word advisories. As per the statement, there is a lot of tension between USA on the one hand and Russia and China on the other. Hence, advisory, meaning ‘having the power to make recommendations but not enforcing them” is not a good fit here.
Instead, the correct word is adversaries meaning enemies.
Correct sentence: The United States has identified both China and Russia as adversaries, whose leaders, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, are strong and determined to stand up to a faltering Donald Trump.
Hence, option B is correct.
