English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide · English · Spotting Errors
Direction: In each of the questions, there are 4 sentences or parts...
Direction: In each of the questions, there are 4 sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence/s or part/s that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage and choose the answer accordingly.
I. Along with recapitalisation of public sector banks,
II. the Central Government announced a huge roads project, which will help scale up&
III. public spending of infrastructure and&
IV. boosts job creation and growth.
Options
- AI and II
- BII and III
- CIII and IV
- DOnly IV
Correct answer
A. I and II
Step-by-step solution
Fragment III:& public spending of infrastructure and
‘On’ will be a better preposition here in place of ‘of’ after the word ‘spending’.
Correct fragment:& public spending& on& infrastructure and
Fragment IV:& boosts job creation and growth.
As we can see that the tense used here is the future tense (refer to fragment II), the verb ‘boosts’ has to be in the preset form to agree with the tense.
Correct fragment: boost& job creation and growth.
The other two fragments are correct and thus have no error in them.
Option A is the correct answer.
‘On’ will be a better preposition here in place of ‘of’ after the word ‘spending’.
Correct fragment:& public spending& on& infrastructure and
Fragment IV:& boosts job creation and growth.
As we can see that the tense used here is the future tense (refer to fragment II), the verb ‘boosts’ has to be in the preset form to agree with the tense.
Correct fragment: boost& job creation and growth.
The other two fragments are correct and thus have no error in them.
Option A is the correct answer.