SBI PO exam is one of the unpredictable exams. It always has surprise packages for the exams. So, here we are brought some new types of English usage questions for SBI PO to tackle the unwanted surprises during the exams.
Directions: Answers the questions based on the following information.
In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is bold. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the bold part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
1. It was us who had left before he arrived.
a) we who had left before time he had arrived. b) us who had went before the arrived. c) us who had went before had arrived. d) we who had left before he arrived.
2. The MP rose up to say that in her opinion, she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on unanimously.
a) rose to say that she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed b) rose up to say that, the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed on c) rose to say that, in her opinion, she thought that the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed d) rose to say that, in her opinion, the Women’s Reservation Bill be passed on.
3. Mr. Kumar, the President of the union and who is also a member of the community group, will be in charge of the negotiations.
a) since he is a member of the community group b) also being a member of the community group c) a member of the community group d) in addition, who is a member of the community group.
4. Since the advent of cable television, at the beginning of this decade, the entertainment industry took a giant stride forward in our country.
a) this decade saw the entertainment industry taking b) this decade, the entertainment industry has taken c) this decade, the entertainment industry had taken d) this decade, the entertainment industry took
5. His mother made great sacrifices to educate him, moving house on three occasions, and severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.
a) severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lesion to make him understand the need to persevere. b) severed the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lesion to make him understand the need to persevere. c) the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lesion to make him understand the need to persevering. d) severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lesion to make them understand the need to persevere.
6. If you are in three-month software design project and in two, you’ve put together a program that solves part of the problem, show it to your boss without delay.
a) you’ve put together a program that solves part of the problem in two weeks. b) in two weeks you’ve put together a program that solves part of the problem. c) you’ve put together a program that has solved part of the problem in two weeks. d) in two weeks you put together a program that solved only part of the problem
7. Many of these environmentalists proclaim to save nothing less than the planet itself.
a) to save nothing lesser than b) that they are saving nothing lesser than c) to save nothing less than d) that they save nothing less than
8. Bacon believes that the medical profession should be permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a few days and at the cost of great pain.
a) be delayed for a few days b) be delayed for a few days and c) be otherwise only delayed or a few days and d) otherwise only delay for a few days and
Explanations:
1) Use of objective case pronoun ‘us’ is incorrect, instead ‘we’ subjective case pronoun is better choice. And when to things happen in past one after another, first thing is written in past perfect tense and latter occurring thing would be written in simple past tense. So, (d) is the correct option.
2) “â¦. In her opinion, she thought” and “passed on” are redundancy errors, incorrect usage. “rose up” is also same kind. So, answer is (a).
3) Parallel construction in the sentence is needed. So, option (c) is correct one.
4) Usage of “took” shows act in past, “has taken” is correct option for present. So, Option (b) is correct.
5) Both (b) and (d) begins the sentence correctly with parallel construction but in (d) use of them is incorrect because it is used only for Mencius. Correct one is (b).
6) Only option (b) is fine as achievement is being done in two weeks, which is important.
7) “They save” is present simple tense going correctly with proclaim. Use of “they are saving” gives present continuous, which is incorrect. Option (d) is correct.
8) “End would be otherwise delayed” is correct option available. There could be otherwise frame sentence but choice I to make from options. So, correct one is (c).
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