Error Detection for SBI Clerk 2018: 11 April
Directions (Q. 1-10): Some parts of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the oval corresponding to the appropriate letter (A), (B), (C). If a sentence is free from error, blacken the oval corresponding to (D) in the Answer Sheet.
1. No sooner A)/ had we set out B)/ when a thunderstorm occurred. C)/ No error D)
2. Some of you A)/ speak French B)/ Isn’t it? C)/ No error D)
3. The girl whom you were speaking to A)/ while I was on the phone B)/ is my cousin. C)/ No
error D)
error D)
4. Coins were A)/ made of an alloy B)/ half a gold and half a copper. C)/ No error D)
5. The price of everything A)/ is raising B)/ fast. C)/ No error D)
6. The principal asked A)/ Mani and I B)/ where our teacher was. C)/ No error D)
7. Speculation is still rife A)/ as to B)/ whom will captain the Indian team. C)/ No error D)
8. We congratulated A)/ Miss Pushpa / for her success. C)/ No error D)
9. Newspaper A)/ carried a report B)/ of the plane crash. C)/ No error D)
10. He had scarcely set foot A)/ on the road than B)/ he was knocked down by a car. C)/ No error D)
Answers:
1. C; Replace ‘when’ with ‘than’.
2. C; Replace ‘Isn’t it?’ with ‘Don’t you?’.
3. A; Delete ‘to’.
4. C; Replace ‘half a gold and half a copper’ with ‘half gold and half copper’.
5. B; Replace ‘raising’ with ‘rising’.
6. D; No error
7. C; Replace ‘whom’ with ‘who’.
8. C; Replace ‘for’ with ‘on’.
9. C; Replace ‘of’ with ‘on’.
10. B; Replace ‘than’ with ‘when’.