IBPS PO & Clerk: English Jumbo Quiz for PO, Clerk, SO, Insurance Exams

Question 1

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

People usually say I take on my father on a large scale.

Question 2

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

I set in for a new adventure in the United States on the first day of the new year.

Question 3

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence, alternatives to the emboldened part are given as (A), (B), (C) and (D), which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative out of the given five options. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer will be option (E), i.e., "No correction required".

During the winters, the food put off by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have.

Question 4

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

With this scheme, you can look up to a significant cash return by saving from as little as rupees 1000 a month.

Question 5

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

A great secret of success is to go over life as a man who never gets used up.

Question 6

Direction: A sentence divided into three parts I, II and III is given. Determine the part which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

Feminism, a movement that works towards (I)/granting equal rights to people of all genders, (II)/ has been going on for quite some time.(III)

Question 7

Direction: A sentence divided into three parts I, II and III is given. Determine the part which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

Advertisers and forward thinkers since around the world set out on (I)/ campaigns toward spread awareness regarding the reality of animal endangerment and (II)/ rights that are hard for look at and nearly impossible to digest. (III)

Question 8

Direction: A sentence divided into three parts I, II and III is given. Determine the part which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

Rolls Royce cars are basically the physical embodiment (I)/ of the term 'wealth', and the car just isn't complete without (II)/ hood ornament sitting pretty atop the hood. (III)

Question 9

Direction: In the given question, a sentence divided into different segments is given. Find the part which does not contribute to the main theme of the passage and then rearrange the remaining parts to make a complete sentence. If the given sentence is correct as it is, choose ‘No correction required’. If the correct sequence is not given then mark ‘None of these’ as your answer.

Food is no longer seasonal, either (A)/ Scarcity of food is also increasing every passing year (B)/ Everything is everywhere (C)/ There are no regional foods anymore (D)/ Everything is available all the time (E)

Question 10

Direction: A sentence divided into different parts is given. Find the part which doesn’t contribute to the main theme of the sentence and then rearrange the remaining parts to make a complete sentence. If the correct sequence is not given in the options, mark ‘None of these’ as your answer. If the given sentence is correct as given, choose ‘No correction required’.

after a heated argument with the local residents, he had no option but to leave (A)/ camped in a place where no one ever showed up (B)/ My cousin never unpacked his camping gear from the back of his van (C)/ He told me he drove way up the mountain and (D)/ Every weekend he disappeared into the woods with fresh groceries, water, and fuel for his lamps (E)

Question 11

Direction: In the given question, a sentence divided into different parts is given. Find the part which doesn’t contribute to the main theme of the passage and then rearrange the remaining parts to make a complete sentence. If the given sentence is correct as it is then, choose ‘No correction required’. If the correct sequence is not given then mark ‘None of these’ as your answer.

having all attributes of a good dog (A)/ will include portraits of the cultural icons paying tribute (B) / the special edition book, ‘Mickey Mouse & Me’ (C) / edition black and white statue of Mickey (D)/ to Mickey Mouse, by posing with a special (E)

Question 12

Direction: In each question, a contextual usage of a word is provided. Pick the word from the given alternatives that is the most inappropriate in the given context.

Obtuse: Especially after keeping in mind the people she lives with, in her house; your obtuse parents, the heartless you.

Question 13

Direction: In each question, a contextual usage of a word is provided. Pick the word from the given alternatives that is the most inappropriate in the given context.

Masquerade: Masquerading to be an innocent man in need of help, he was actually a wanted criminal in disguise.

Question 14

Direction: In each question, a contextual usage of a word is provided. Pick the word from the given alternatives that is the most inappropriate in the given context.

Succinct: Everyone was happy when the politician made a succinct speech that did not take all evening.

Question 15

Direction: In each question, a contextual usage of a word is provided. Pick the word from the given alternatives that is the most inappropriate in the given context.

Rapacious: He had insinuating manners and could make himself very agreeable if he chose; but he was mean, treacherous, rapacious, suspicious and horribly vindictive.

Question 16