(Paper) CDS: English Spotting Errors Solved Exam Paper (I) : 2006

Combined Defence Services

CDS General English Solved Paper (I) : 2006
(SPOTTING ERRORS)

Directions (For the 15 items which follows):

(i) In this section a number of sentences are given. The sentences are underlined in three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out  whether there is an error in any underlined part. No sentence has more than one error. When you find an error in anyone of the underlined parts (a), (b) or (c), indicate your response on the separate Answer Sheet at the appropriate space. You may feel that there is no error in a sentence. In that case letter (d) will signify a ‘No error ’ response.

(ii) You are to indicate only one response for each  item in your Answer Sheet. (If you indicate more than one response, your answer will be considered wrong.) Errors may be in grammar, word usage or idioms. There may be a word missing or there may be a word which should be removed.

(iii) You are not required to correct the error. You are required only to indicate your response on the Answer Sheet.Examples ‘P’ and ‘Q’ have been solved for you.

P. The young child singed a very sweet song.
           (a)         (b)         (c)
No error.
    (d)

Q. We worked very hard throughout the season.
             (a)            (b)                 (c)
No error.
    (d)

Explanation: In item P, the word ‘singed’ is wrong. The letter under this part is (b); so (b) is the correct answer. Similarly for item Q, (d) is the correct answer, as the sentence does not contain any error.

1. Rupa was driven from post to pillar
                            (a)
and each person she spoke to
                    (b)
was more unhelpful than the last. No error.
            (c)                         (d)

2. Critics of government policy
                    (a)
argue that the new measures introduced
                (b)
to fight crime are simply papering on the
cracks.

   (c)
No error.
    (d)

3. I could not
            (a)
remember story to tell the children
                (b)
so I made up as I went along. No error.
                (c)                 (d)

4. You must make up the time you wasted this
                        (a)                 (b)
afternoon by working late over tonight.
                        (c)
No error.
    (d)

5. I am going to bed and you would be well
                    (a)                 (b)
advised to do likely. No error.
            (c)             (d)

6. On the land turtle is ungainly
                (a)             (b)
but in the water it is very agile. No error.
                (c)                 (d)

7. Your argument was clear to us from the start
                    (a)                     (b)
there’s no need to labour the point.
                    (c)
No error.
   (d)

8. The fact that I do not like
                    (a)
your fiance is neither here nor there
                    (b)
what matters is what you feel. No error.
           (c)                     (d)

9. Two newspapers did
                    (a)
an very effective hatchet job
                (b)
on the Prime Minister’s achievements.
                            (c)
No error.
    (d)

10. The Minister has put
                (a)
a different gloss on recent
                    (b)
developments in Middle East. No error.
             (c)                     (d)

11. She certainly has gone up
                (a)
in my estimation since she
                (b)
told the Manager what she thought of him.
                            (c)
No error.
     (d)

12. The plans have been under
                    (a)
discussion for a year now,
                (b)
but no decision has reached.
                    (c)
No error.
    (d)

13. Unless their paths diverged
                        (a)
Lennon and McCartney wrote
                    (b)
many hits together.
            (c)
No error.
    (d)

14. Amit needs marry a down - to - earth person
            (a)                         (b)
who will organise his life for him.
                    (c)
No error.
      (d)

15. As soon as the clock strike five
            (a)                     (b)
they down tools and off they go.
                    (c)
No error.
    (d)

ANSWERS: 1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (b) 10. (c) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b)

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