General English Practice Question and Answer
8 Q: Given below are six sentences, out of which sentences A and F are in the correct position. Sentences B, C, D and E are in a jumbled order. Select the option that gives the correct order.
A. Folk tales offer lots of advice.
B. Most of them deliver the message clearly.
C. The reason was that he was not properly dressed.
D. There is a story of Birbal not being allowed to attend the king’s free lunch.
E. This happened despite his high intellectual abilities.
F. The advice thus conveyed is ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’
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611e1ec03419655efd0374abA. Folk tales offer lots of advice.
B. Most of them deliver the message clearly.
C. The reason was that he was not properly dressed.
D. There is a story of Birbal not being allowed to attend the king’s free lunch.
E. This happened despite his high intellectual abilities.
F. The advice thus conveyed is ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’
- 1ADEBCFfalse
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Answer : 4. "ABDCEF"
Q:Direction: In the question a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expressed the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice and mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.
Ram was singing a beautiful song for his mother.
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5ddcf213103cc50a8fa6a814- 1A beautiful song was being sung by Ram for his mother.true
- 2A beautiful song was sang by Ram for his mother.false
- 3A beautiful song was sung by Ram for his mother.false
- 4A beautiful song was sung for his mother by Ramfalse
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Answer : 1. "A beautiful song was being sung by Ram for his mother. "
Q:In these questions read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. If there is no error, the answer is (D).
Your success in the IAS examinations depends not only on (A)/ what papers you have selected (B)/but on how you have written them. (C)/ No error(D).
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5daed5967f47a948b610936c- 1Afalse
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Answer : 3. "C"
Q:Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .
He found a wooden broken chair in the room.
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5dcced9cf348e931548f55b8- 1wooden and broken chairfalse
- 2broken wooden chairtrue
- 3broken and wooden chairfalse
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Answer : 2. "broken wooden chair"
Q: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical 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 (e), No error.
Although Shanku was born (a)/ in a rich merchant’s families (b)/ he was very humble and (c) /was a philanthropist by nature (d) / No error (e).
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5d493de985c77648500b388bAlthough Shanku was born (a)/ in a rich merchant’s families (b)/ he was very humble and (c) /was a philanthropist by nature (d) / No error (e).
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Answer : 3. "(c)"
Q: A well balanced diet (A)/ is essential for (B)/ good health/ (C) / No error (D)
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5f3109e7c923a92061dd1696- 1Cfalse
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Answer : 2. "D"
Q:The 1st and the last sentences of the passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct. The find the correct answer and indicate it in the answer sheet.
1. Everyone has a mental picture of volcanoes.
P. This is the crater and it is the mouth of the volcano.
Q. In appearance it looks like a cone-shaped mountain.
R. The lava forces its way up this and overflows to form the sides of the volcano.
S. The top of the cone is rather flat and hollow.
6. Thus the volcano mountain is formed from the lava.
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5f33941ea19eae5979027fa0P. This is the crater and it is the mouth of the volcano.
Q. In appearance it looks like a cone-shaped mountain.
R. The lava forces its way up this and overflows to form the sides of the volcano.
S. The top of the cone is rather flat and hollow.
6. Thus the volcano mountain is formed from the lava.
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Answer : 1. "QSPR "
Q:In these questions read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. If there is no error, the answer is (D).
She is confident (A) / to win gold medal (B) / this time (C). / No error (D).
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