NTSE - Language Comprehensive Test - General English - Error Detection

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Question - 1

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A Societies which until few decade ago
  • B were able to live in almost total ignorance
  • C of each other are today in
  • D increasingly close and regular contact
  • E No error

Question - 2

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A Over the centuries
  • B the courses of history have
  • C led to steady expansion
  • D in the use of some languages.
  • E No error

Question - 3

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A The lack of reading and
  • B writing skills drastically limits
  • C the expansion of a person's
  • D overall capacities and abilities.
  • E No error

Question - 4

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A Because of man has a role
  • B in each of his social institutions,
  • C it is important that a common bond
  • D exists between him and his society.
  • E No error

Question - 5

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A Radio is perhaps today
  • B the least transnationalised comrnunicarion medium,
  • C in both terms of
  • D ownership and programme flows.
  • E No error

Question - 6

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A The growth rates of
  • B Christian population has been
  • C declining over
  • D the last four decades
  • E No error

Question - 7

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A As Delhi's experiment with
  • B power privatisation shows
  • C private monopolies can be
  • D as bad as worse then public monopolies
  • E No error

Question - 8

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A Bangalore today has many
  • B more English medium schools
  • C from it has
  • D Kannada medium ones.
  • E No error

Question - 9

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A The younger generation of upper castes
  • B can't be held responsible
  • C for the discrimination practised
  • D by people of previous generations
  • E No error

Question - 10

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any 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, the answer is (e). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

  • A It is disappointing not only
  • B to the players and spectators, but
  • C to the orqanisers and advertisers as well
  • D as who stand to lose financially
  • E No eroor