Directions (1-10): In this section a number of sentences are given. Each sentence has four parts. Read each sentence and find out whether there is any error. If you find an error in any one of the parts, indicate your response. 

Q1. Everybody among the guests were enjoying drinking When the theft took place. 
(a) Everybody among the guests
(b) were enjoying drinking.
(c) When the theft took place.
(d) No error
Q2.English is one of those subjects that are generally found difficult by Indian students. 
(a) English is one of those subjects
(b) that are generally found difficult
(c) by Indian students.
(d) No error

Q3. Of the two wild beasts, this one seems the most ferocious. 
(a) Of the two wild beasts,
(b) this one seems
(c) the most ferocious.
(d) No error

Q4. Mehta is one of the richest men that has ever lived in this part of the country. 
(a) Mehta is one of the richest men
(b) that has ever lived
(c) in this part of the country.
(d) No error

Q5. When on duty, she is always wearing a white saree with a blue border. 
(a) When on duty,
(b) she is always wearing
(c) a white saree with a blue border.
(d) No error

Q6. It has been raining hard since yesterday morning. Hasn’t it?
(a) It has been raining hard
(b) since yesterday morning.
(c) Hasn’t it?
(d) No error

Q7. The lawyer was told that the judge would like to talk with the convicted criminal.
(a) The lawyer was told that
(b) the judge would like to talk with
(c) the convicted criminal.
(d) No error

Q8. The people gathered together to think out the problem which was too serious to be neglected.
(a) The people gathered together
(b) to think out the problem
(c) which was too serious to be neglected.
(d) No error

Q9. He spoke for such long time that people began to fall asleep in the seminar hall itself.
(a) He spoke for such long time that
(b) people began to fall asleep
(c) in the seminar hall itself.
(d)No error

Q10. Nobody can be termed a complete man having no knowledge of what science has to teach.
(a) Nobody can be termed a complete man
(b) having no knowledge of
(c) what science has to teach.
(d) No error

Directions (11-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences.
Q11. Scatter things among others.
(a) interpolate
(b) intersperse
(c) intercede
(d) intervene

Q12. Not clearly expressed or understood.
(a) obsolete
(b) inscrutable
(c) obtuse
(d) invincible

Q13. That cannot be broken into by force.
(a) impregnable
(b) opaque
(c) transparent
(d) obliterate

Q14. A point at which things join together.
(a) confederacy
(b) union
(c) confluence
(d) coherence

Q15. One preying on or exploiting others.
(a) predator
(b) cannibal
(c) primitive
(d) savage

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Everybody is singular and takes singular verb. Hence use ‘was’ in place of ‘were’. 

S2. Ans.(d) 
Sol. The given sentence is grammatically correct.

S3. Ans.(c) 
Sol. We use comparative degree for two objects or persons but superlative for more than two. In this sentence use comparative degree. Write as ‘more ferocious’. 

S4. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Use plural verb ‘have’ in place of ‘has’. Verb will be used according to plural ‘men’. 

S5. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write ‘she always wears’. 

S6. Ans.(d) 
Sol. The given sentence is grammatically correct.

S7. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write ‘the judge would like to talk to’ 

S8. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Write ‘To think about the problem’

S9. Ans.(a) 
Sol. Write ‘For such a long time ‘

S10. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Write ‘having any knowledge of’  

S11. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  intersperse- scatter among or between other things; place here and there.

S12. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  inscrutable- impossible to understand or interpret.

S13. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  impregnable- (of a fortified position) unable to be captured or broken into.

S14. Ans.(c) 
Sol.  confluence-the junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width.

S15. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  predator-an animal that naturally preys on others.