OT- 18 (25 questions)

Spot the error:

##1. Candidates present in the examination hall (A)/ should make use (B)/ with such opportunities. (C)/ No Error (D)

##2. He was elected (A)/ as chairman (B)/ of the college. (C)/ No Error (D)

##3. Ravi Shankar's performance was given (A)/ a standing ovation by the (B)/ people who has come to hear him. (C)/ No Error (D)

##4. I am not familiar with (A)/ all the important places in this town (B)/ although I had been living here for two years. (C)/ No Error (D)

##5. Mohan wishes (A)/ he will be (B)/ richer. (C)/ No Error (D)

##6. A number of sheets (A)/ that you see there (B)/ belongs to me. (C)/ No Error (D)

##7. She was looking too beautiful that not a single person was there at the party who did not want to have her company.

A. looking too beautiful/ B. was there at the party/ C. to have her company/ D. No error

##8. No sooner had they completed the work when they demanded wages.

A. No error/ B. when they demanded/ C. no sooner had they/ D. wages

##9. He, together with his long-term collaborator, were awarded the Dirac Medal for Theoretical Physics. 

A. with his/ B. were awarded/ C. long-term/ D. No error

##10. If Rama have asked me once, I would have given her some useful advice.

A. If Rama have/ B. her some useful/ C. asked me/ D. No Error

##11. Neither our tenant nor our friends knows that we are getting married.

A. Our tenant/ B. We are/ C. No error/ D. Knows

Cloze test:

Harsh was aware that people were listening to him quite (12) ______ . Things seemed to be going quite well. (13) ______ , halfway through the talk, he saw his friend, Ravi look (14) ______ his pal Sunil, roll his eyes and whisper in his ear. Harsh (15) ______ understood that Ravi ,who had been upset ever since his promotion, was now (16) ______ disturbance intentionally.

12. 1. intently/ 2. smoothly/ 3. evenly/ 4. clearly

13. 1. Wherever/ 2. Whenever/ 3. Moreover/ 4. However

14. 1. at/ 2. opposite/ 3. through/ 4. in

15. 1. immediately/ 2. keenly/ 3. urgently/ 4. cleverly

16. 1. created/ 2. create/ 3. creates/ 4. Creating

Voice:

17. He has no time to waste.

A. Waste is no time to him.

B. He has no time to be wasted.

C. He has no time to be waste.

D. No time is to waste.

18. Why did you leave him?

A. Why he was left by you?

B. Why was he left by you?

C. Why is he left by you?

D. Why was he left by him?

19. They made me sing a song.

A. I was maked to sing a song.

B. I made to sing a song.

C. I was made to sing a song.

D. A song was made to sing.

Narration:

20. He said, "Alas! my best friend has died."

A. He exclaimed sorrowfully that his best friend had died.

B. He exclaimed with sorrow that his best friend has died.

C. He exclaimed with praise that his best friend had died.

D. He exclaims with sorrow that his best friend had died.

21. She said to him, "Look after the elderly." 

A. She has ordered him to look after the elderly.

B. She advised him to look after the elderly.

C. She requested him not to look after the elderly.

D. She forbade him to look after the elderly.

22. She said, "May you live happily'"

A. She prayed that he may live happily. 

B. She wished that he might live happily. 

C. She prays that he might live happily. 

D. She wished that he might lived happily.

One word substitution:

23. Child brought up or raised by persons, who are not his real parents- a. Brat/ b. Solitary/ c. Loner/ d. Foster child

24. Electrical discharge in the sky- a.lightning / b.lightening / c.lighting / d.lighteding

25. A disease that exists permanently in a particular region or population- a.hypodermic / b.endemic / c.epidemic / d.pandemic