Error Detection for SBI Clerk

Directions (Q. 1-10): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is 5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

1. 1) The country’s the biggest forged wheel factory / 2) will be set up in Rae Bareli, / 3) the parliamentary constituency of / 4) Congress president in UP. / 5) No error
2. 1) All completed documents should be submitted / 2) along with an earnest money deposit / 3) by way of demand draft / 4) favourable to Principal Controller, Mumbai. / 5) No error
3. 1) It is believed that one’s past karma / 2) is responsible for the situation / 3) in the present-birth, and / 4) the way he lives here. / 5) No error
4. 1) Family members of a patient roughed up / 2) employees at Max Hospital / 3) accusing them for medical negligence / 4) after he died after surgery. / 5) No error
5. 1) On her voyage into space, / 2) Williams said she would carried with her / 3) a copy of the Upanishad and the Bhagvad Gita / 4) to reflect and read. / 5) No error
6. 1) Sitted in his Andheri Office, / 2) Raj Kumar Gupta sometimes wonders / 3) if he should / 4) take up animal husbandry. / 5) No error
7. 1) Ruling out any possibility of manufacturing Jaguar and Land Rover in India / 2) in the near future Ratan Tata has said / 3) that some silly taxes make even their assembly / 4) here costlier than the imports. / 5) No error
8. 1) Micro-blogging website Twitter has announced / 2) that it would provide users / 3) the opportunity to download all of its tweets / 4) they have ever posted. / 5) No error
9. 1) The Bank of Japan delivered its / 2) third dosage of monetary stimulus / 3) in four months in a prelude to / 4) more aggressive action next year. / 5) No error
10. 1) Children should be made aware about the importance / 2) of cleanliness and they should be / 3) taught to maintain hygienic conditions / 4) in and around them. / 5) No error

Answers:

1. 1; Replace ‘the biggest’ with ‘biggest’
2. 4; Replace ‘favourable to’ with ‘in favour of’
3. 4; Replace ‘he’ with ‘one’
4. 3; Replace ‘for’ with ‘of’
5. 2; Replace ‘carried’ with ‘carry’
6. 1; Replace ‘sitted’ with ‘seated’ or ‘sitting’
7. 5
8. 3; Replace ‘its’ with ‘their’
9. 2; Replace ‘dosage’ with ‘dose’
10. 3; Add ‘how’ before ‘to’