Saturday, December 26, 2015

The Twisted Ones: English


1.It is not simply that one was/ a party of the far-left and the other is/ a party of the far-right; rather, it is that the FN/ relies exclusively on elections for its legitimac/No error.
Soln. (1) Replace was with were


2.It also reflects the fact that European electorate/have become more concerned about the inability /of their national governments to implement /economic reform in a globalised economy./No error.
Soln. (1) Replace Electorate with Electorates


3.One can only hope that the/ threat of the far-right have/ the positive side effect of focussing the/minds of politicians, especially on the left/No error.
Soln. (2) Replace has with have


4.The tournament organisers of the ISL /were not available for a comment /on the development, while another source rubbished the report/No error.
Soln. (1) Replace Were with was


5.Through the transformations that Pinker documents, /we appear to have underwent what the/ novelist Michel Houellebecq calls a/ metaphysical mutation in our relations with each other/No error.
Soln. (2) Replace Underwent With Undergone


6.One of those is Ravinder Singh"s,/ a fitness professional who began a neighbourhood/ running group in Gurgaon, a glass-towered/ business district on the edge of Delhi /No error.
Soln. (1) Replace Singh's with Singh


7.I have being walking /down that road for many /years now and I still discover/ boreens I'd never thought existed/No error.
Soln. (1) Replace being with been


8.Cities I have lived in/ I can feel the change,/But I wouldn’t know the/ difference between Indore and Baroda/No error.
Soln. (5) No Error


9.Pathak said this price band/ is one of the least competitive /and where Indian consumers typically looking/ for the brand factor in purchase/No error.
Soln. (4) Replace looking with look.


10.The Indian squad for the tour/ of Australia to play One-Day Internationals and /Twenty20 Internationals against the host country/ in January 2016 is to be picked in Delhi on Saturday/No error.
Soln. (5)No error


11.No body else/but these comely young women have/ played a prank on you;but it is pitiable that you don't/ understand it/No error.
Soln. (5) No error


12.Baleno is a real global/ model, to satisfy our customers/ not only in India / across but also  global markets/No error.
Soln.(4)Put but also before across


13.An indian driver or carpenter has to work/about two haours to buy kilograms of rice while his counterparts in autraia/ , the neatherlands and switzerland need to/ work only fifteen minutes for it/no error.
Soln. (2)  Put a before kilograms


14.To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of/ whalemen's look-outs perched as high in the air; /but from a few of those lungs could that accustomed old cry have derived /such a marvellous cadence as from Tashtego the Indian's/No error.
Soln. (3) Replace few with a few


15.After spending  few days in Evangeline's country,/ about which Longfellow's beautiful poem has woven a /spell of enchantment, Miss Sullivan and I/ went to Halifax, where we remained the greater part of the summer/No error.
Soln. (1) Put a few in place of few

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