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Noun Test - 4

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1) (A) I read the letter/ (B) and made him aware/ (C) of its content./ (D) No error.

Ans- (c) Change ‘content’ into ‘contents’. It means ‘that are contained in a piece of writing or speech’.

2)(A) I shall not go to party tonight/ (B) since I have many works to complete/ (C) before I give presentation tomorrow./ (D) No error.

Ans- (b) ‘Work’ is an uncountable noun. ‘Many pieces of work’ is the correct usage.

3)(A) Even after the enactment of several Acts and Provisions /(B) we can see five years old boys/ (C) working in hazardous factories./ (D) No error.

Ans- (b) Use ‘five year old boys’. Here ‘year’ will be in singular form as it qualifies noun ‘boys’ and acts as an adjective.

4)(A) She wears spectacle/ (B) and so she was unable to see the gansgter/ (C) that attacked her last night./ (D) No error.

Ans- (a) Change ‘spectacle’ into ‘spectacles’.

5)(A) All the furnitures have been/ (B) sold for a song/ (C) as we were in a hurry to leave the town./ (D) No error.

Ans- (a) Change ‘furnitures’ into ‘furniture’. ‘Furniture’ being an uncountable noun will take singular verb.

6)(A) The angry mob/ (B) attacked the police officers/ (C) when they came to raze the illegal construction./ (D) No error.

Ans- (a) ‘Angry mob’ is superfluous. ‘Mob’ means ‘angry group of people’.

7)(A) They left/ (B) their luggages/ (C) at home by mistake and went to the railway station./ (D) No error.

Ans- (b) Change ‘luggages’ into ‘luggage’.

8)(A) The car could not/ (B) ascend the steep hill/ (C) because it was in the wrong gears./ (D) No error.

Ans- (c) Use ‘wrong gear’. Only one gear is functional in a car at a time.

9)(A) The ticket window/ (B) remained closed / (C)throughout the day./ (D) No error.

Ans- (a) Change ‘window’ into ‘counter’.

10)(A) Satyajit Ray, who conceived, co-authored / (B) and directed a number of good films, was/ (C) one of India’s most talented film maker./ (D) No error.

 

(c) The noun after ‘one of’ is plural in form. Hence ‘one of the film makers’ is correct.