ERROR SPOTTING BASED ON IBPS PO 2017(NEW) SET 2

In each of the following questions there are sentences that form a paragraph. There is error in one of the parts. Mark the option which contains parts (i, ii, iii, iv, v) which do not contain error. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer.

1.A) The government recognised street vending as
B) not only a source of self-employment for the poor
C) in cities and towns, but also a means to provide
D) “affordable”  as well as “convenient” services
E) to a majority of the urban population.
1) ABCD
2) BCDE
3) ABDE
4) BDAC
5) NE




2.A) The Academy perhaps tried too hard given the criticism,
B) and the awardee’s snub, that came its way last year when the prize
C) went to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan; it had clearly been
D)  trying to push the envelope in capturing newer forms of narrative-telling,
E)after bringing to the notice of a wider readership the brilliant Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich
1) ABCD
2) BCDE
3) ABED
4) BCED
5) NE




3.A) Ishiguro’s credentials are impeccable. Strong,
B) albeit strange and unreliable characters; spare prose,
C) used for devastating effect; genres varying from science
D) fiction to fantasy, with no book
E) of his reading like the last.
1) ACED
2) BCDE
3) ABDE
4) BDCA
5) NE

  


4.A) The decline in its institutional pride and standards
B) had begun in the 1960s. Barring brief episodes
C) of precarious recovery, descent into the shared
D)  hollows of higher education in the Hindi
E) belt has been consistent.
1) ABCD
2) BCDE
3) ABCE
4) BCEA
5) NE




5.A) The young women who paid the price of mass
B) protest by getting brutally assaulted and injured
C) have already become symbols of a deeper stirring
D)  than the officials of BHU have the
E) wherewithal and imagination to gauge.
1) BDEC
2) ABDC
3) BCAE
4) ABCE
5) NE


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