English Quiz

Directions (Q. 1 to 5): 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, mark (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)

Question.1. It has been spared much of the violence that the Pakistani Taliban, 1)/ a loose affiliation of terror groups, has inflicted elsewhere. 2)/ Harder hit have been ethnic-Pushtun areas in Pakistan’s north-west, 3)/ including in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan. 4)/ No error 5)

Question.2. Yazidi and tribal fighters recently captured 1)/ an area in the Sinjar region, 2)/ on the border with Syria, while Syrian Kurds have 3)/ pushed down to take the town from Shaddadeh. 4)/ No error 5)

Question.3. The depth of the economic, cultural, 1)/ scientific and intellectual relationship between 2)/ the two countries can be of 3)/ unprecedented benefit to both. 4)/ No error 5)

Question.4. We will come to be unwittingly identified with American rhetoric 1)/ and designs for Asia. 2)/ And the overblown rhetoric emanating from Washington about positioning India 3)/ in its pushback of China will reduce our options. 4)/ No error 5)

Question.5. There was an English-Urdu divide over the event. 1)/ Urdu fulminated against the hanging in the opinion 2)/ of the columnists known to be 3)/ aligned with religious parties. 4)/ No error 5)

Directions (Q. 6 to 10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley. It __(6)__ to me that I stood, by the iron gate leading to the drive, but there was a padlock and chain upon the gate. Then, like all dreamers. I suddenly attained supernatural powers and passed through the gate like a spirit. As I __(7)__along the twisting and turning drive, I could see that a change had come about. This was not the neat and orderly drive mat we had __(8)__ . It was only when I bent my head to avoid the low swinging branch of a tree that I realized what had __(9)__ . Nature had come into its own again. The woods on either side of the drive had encroached upon the open space in between. The branches of the trees intermingled above my head like the archway of a church. The drive was choked with grass and moss. I came upon the house all of a __(10)__ . As I stood before it, I felt the strange prick of tears behind my eyes.

Question.6. 
1) seemed
2) seem
3) dreamt
4) occur
5) felt

Question.7. 
1) slept
2) wake
3) felt
4) advanced
5) walk

Question.8. 
1) knowing
2) knewed
3) known
4) knew
5) know

Question.9. 
1) transpire
2) killed
3) happen
4) happened
5) occur

Question.10. 
1) fastly
2) time
3) sudden
4) fast
5) quickly

Answers: (With Explanation) 

Ans.1. 5; The sentence is correct in its given form.
Ans.2. 4; Replace “from” with “of”, an error of preposition.
Ans.3. 5; The sentence is correct in its given form.
Ans.4. 5; The sentence is correct in its given form.
Ans.5. 5; The sentence is correct in its given form.
Ans.6. ‘Seemed’ is the correct word.
Ans.7. ‘As I advanced’ makes sense.
Ans.8. ‘Known’ is the right word because the participle has to be used there.
Ans.9. Happened’ is the right word because it is in the participle form.
Ans.10. ‘All of a sudden’ means ‘suddenly’.