Error correction
This Verbal ability section will refer to MCQ on Sentence correction or sentence completion. This is a useful Grammar exercise for High School and Senior secondary. Questions are also asked various competitive exams, TOFEL , IELTS, GRE college entrance and various Job interviews. Bank PO, clerical and SSC & various state jobs exam also ask questions related to Error correction in sentence or sentence completion under verbal ability section.
Directions: Pick the correct answer from the choices given below and fill in the blanks so as to form a meaningful sentence.
- When I listened to his cogent arguments, all my _______ were _______ and I was forced to agree with his point of view.
- senses,stimulated
- doubts,confirmed
- friends,present
- doubts,dispelled
- She was ______ because her plans had gone ______.
- pleased,awry
- imminent,efficiently
- foiled,well
- distraught,awry
- The ties that bind us together in common activity are so _____ that they can disappear at any moment.
- tentative
- tenuous
- restrictive
- consistent
- His remarks were filled with ______, which sounded lofty but presented nothing new to audience.
- aphorisms
- platitudes
- adages
- symbols
- Achilles had his ______, Hitler had his elite corps.
- myrmidons
- antagonists
- orchids
- anchorites
- He was deluded by the ______ who claimed he could cure all diseases with his mighty machine.
- salesman
- inventor
- charlatan
- doctor
- Automation threatens mankind with an increased number of ______ hours.
- meager
- useless
- active
- complex
- Disturbed by the _____ nature of the plays being presented the puritans closed the theaters in 1642.
- medicore
- fantastic
- moribund
- salacious
- Epicureans live for the ____ of their senses.
- mortification
- removal
- gratification
- gravity
- Her reaction to his proposal was _____, she rejected it ______.
- inevitable,vehemently
- subtle,violently
- clever,obtusely
- sympathetic,angrily
- _______ is the mark of the ________.
- thrift,impoverished
- avarice,philanthropist
- trepidation,coward
- vanity,obsequious
- It hurt my pride to be forced to _____ a person who always insulted me;nevertheless,I tried to ____ him.
- rebuke,condign
- respect,avenge
- propitiate,conciliate
- repudiate,evaluate
- I am not attracted by the _____ life of the _____ always wandering through the countryside,begging for charity.
- noble,philanthropic
- urban,bobo
- natural,philosopher
- peripatetic,vagabond
- It is foolish to vent your spleen on an _______ object;still,you make ______ enemies.
- inanimate,fewer
- immobile,bitter
- interesting,curious
- insipid,fewer
- His _____ directions misled as;we did not know which of the two roads to take
- foolish
- complicated
- ambiguous
- arbitrary
Answer Key
- (4), 2(4), 3(2),4(2),5(1),6(3),7(4),8(4),9(3),10(1),11(3),12(3),13(4),14(1),15(3)
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