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Conjunction Mock Test - 1
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1)(A) You are quite cynical/ (B) when you say that the reason why we have/ (C) such a large turnout is because we are serving refreshments./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) ‘Because’ cannot come with ‘the reason why’ because then the sentence becomes Superfluous.
2)(A) That store/ (B) hadn’t hardly/ (C) any of those goods./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘Hardly’ is negative in meaning. ‘Not’ cannot come with ‘hardly’. ‘Had’ will come in place of ‘hadn’t'.
3)(A) I needed that money/ (B) so desperately, it was/ (C) like manna from heaven when it arrived./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘So’ must be followed by ‘that’. ‘That’ will come after ‘so desperately’.
4)(A) The period/ (B) between 1980 to 1990/ (C) was very significant in my life./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘Between’ is followed by ‘and’ not to.
5)(A) No sooner had the hockey match started/ (B) when it began/ (C) to rain./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘No sooners’ is followed by ‘than’ and not when.
6)(A) She is very/ (B) beautiful/ (C) but intelligent./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Change ‘but’ into ‘and’
7)(A) Your success in the IAS examinations depends not only on/ (B) what papers you have selected/ (C) but on how you have written them/ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) ‘But also’ follows ‘not only’. Add ‘also’ after ‘but’.
8)(A) No sooner had/ (B) he arrived then/ (C) he was asked to leave again./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘No sooner’ is followed by ‘than’ and not ‘then’.
9)(A) I haven’t been/ (B) to New York before and/ (C) neither my sister./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) ‘Neither’ is followed by ‘helping verb’ and then the subject. ‘Neither has my sister’ is the correct sentence form.
10)(A) Scarcely had/ (B) I arrived than/ (C) the train left./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘Scarcely’ is followed by ‘when’ and not ‘than’.
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