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English Practice Set - 2

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DIRECTION :- Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error' i.e. Option (D).

Note:- Solutions are given at the bottom.

1)(A)  When Anand reached his village/ (B)  he found that / (C)  the news about him preceded him./ (D)  No error.

2)(A) He is the most / (B) intelligent and also / (C) the very talented student of the college. / (D) No error

 

3)(A)  Last year two Italian prisoners of war/ (B)  escapes from a prison camp/ (C)  in Kenya during the war./ (D)  No error

4)(A) Having done my homework/ (B) my mother allowed me/ (C) to go out and play./(D) No error.

5)(A) The court held/ (B) the local MLA responsible/ (C) for the loss or damage to any public property./ (D) No error.

 

6)(A) The labourers/ (B) relax/ (C) between 4.00 p.m. to 5. 00 p.m./ (D) No error.

7)(A) There is no rule/ (B) regarding the length of a precis/ (C) with relation to/ (D) that of the original passage.

 

8)(A) Our dog may look/ (B) fierce but/ (C) that wouldn’t hurt a fly./ (D) No error.

 

9)(A) He has come out/ (B) with an unique proposal/ (C) for his friends (D) No error.

 

10)

(A) Everyone considered him as/ (B) a brave man/(C) but he fled from the battlefield./ (D) No error.

DIRECTION :- Select the correct option of the idiom/phrase.

11)Throw cold water

A)To remove obstructions

B)Avoid becoming too friendly

C)To be involved in several activities

D)To criticise or stop someone from doing something that he is enthusiastic about

Directions:- Select the word similar in meaning to the given word.

12)SPURIOUS

 A)False

B)Harmful

C)Poisonous

D)Foreign

Directions:- select the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

13)GRADUALLY

A)Rapidly

B)Angrily

C)Quietly

D)Casually

14)Find the wrongly spelt word.

(A) grotesque 

(B) burlesque 

(C) picturesque 

(D) pectorial

15 )One who gives financial help to a school/hospital

A)Mantle

B)Contagious

C)Contiguous

D)Benefactor

Solutions:- 

1)(c) Use ‘had preceded'.

2)(c) Change ‘very’ into Use  most’ in place of 'Very' . If two adjectives are joined by a conjunction, both the adjectives should be in the same degree.

3)(b) Sentence is in Past Tense. Use "escaped" in place of "escape"

4)(a) Use ‘I’ before ‘having’ 

5)(c) Use 'of ' with 'Loss' .

6)(c)Use ' and ' in place of 'to'. ‘Between’ is followed by ‘and’ and not ‘to’U

7)(c) ‘in relation to’ must be used.

8)(c)"it"  must be used   for ‘dog’.

9)(b) Unique does not start with vowel sound. Use article  ‘a’ in place of ‘an'

10) (a) ‘as’ is not used after "Consider" . Remove "as".

11) (D)Throw cold water ( उम्मीद पर पानी फेर देना )

12) (A)Spurious means false or fake.

13)A) Gradually means slowly.

14)D)  The correct spelling is pictorial.

15)D)Benefactor ( धर्मापकारी )