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Error Detection Questions for SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam 2017

Previous Years English Questions for SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam 2017

Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam will be held from 1st August 2017 to 20 August 2017. You need to practice a lot in order to achieve 40+ marks in the English Section. We are providing quizzes which include sentence improvement, error detection, idioms, one-word substitution, reading comprehension, vocabulary related questions etc. we have also provided study notes on English for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. Practice all these questions, if any doubt, post your queries in the comment section, we will answer surely.

Directions (1-15): In the following questions, the sentences have an error, Find out the error and mark as your correct response.

Q1. The man is mortal and ultimately, he has to leave everything here, yet how irrationally he remains attached to his worldly possessions.
(a) The man is mortal
(b) and ultimately, he has to leave everything here,
(c) yet how irrationally he remains attached to his worldly possessions.
(d) No error



Q2. On seeing him cough I asked him since how long he had been ailing.
(a) On seeing him cough
(b) I asked him since how long
(c) he had been ailing.
(d) No error

Q3. Unless your doctor has proved that you have a salt-related health problem there is no reason to give up.
(a) Unless your doctor has proved
(b) that you have a salt-related health problem
(c) there is no reason to give up.
(d) No error

Q4. The journalist, no matter how sound his judgement or how judicious his sense to perception is cannot impart to news the sober quality of history.
(a) The journalist, no matter how sound his judgement
(b) or how judicious his sense to perception is
(c) cannot impart to news the sober quality of history.
(d) No error

Q5. The examinee cut up all the long words from his book and made the answer simpler.
(a) The examinee cut up
(b) all the long words from his book
(c) and made the answer simpler.
(d) No error

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Q6. They asked him to keep standing there till they had returned.
(a) They asked him
(b) to keep standing there
(c) till they had returned.
(d) No error

Q7. Since a stormy wind was blowing, the liner was turned in a half-circle so that the motor launch should be lowered on the side sheltered from the wind.
(a) Since a stormy wind was blowing,
(b) the liner was turned in a half-circle
(c) so that the motor launch should be lowered on the side sheltered from the wind.
(d) No error

Q8. Of the two schemes, I think this is the one most likely to succeed.
(a) Of the two schemes
(b) I think this is the one
(c) most likely to succeed.
(d) No error

Q9. He was not considered for promotion because his performance was not as good as the other members of the organization.
(a) He was not considered for promotion
(b) because his performance was not
(c) as good as the other members of the organization.
(d) No error

Q10. I’d appreciate spending half an hour with you to discuss about how these and other experiences might be mutually beneficial.
(a) I’d appreciate spending half an hour with you
(b) to discuss about how these and other experiences
(c) might be mutually beneficial.
(d) No error

Q11. In some tribal areas people worship snakes and are not scared from them.
(a) In some tribal areas
(b) people worship snakes
(c) and are not scared from them.
(d) No error


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Q12. Not only it is our duty to support our parents, but also to respect them.
(a) Not only it is our duty
(b) to support our parents,
(c) but also to respect them.
(d) No error

Q13. After nagging constantly for months and administering weekly tests the teacher was at last pleased for the boy’s progress.
(a) After nagging constantly for months
(b) and administering weekly tests
(c) the teacher was at last pleased for the boy’s progress.
(d) No error

Q14. Don’t think you can say unpleasant things about someone behind his back and not found out.
(a) Don’t think you can say unpleasant things
(b) about someone behind his back
(c) and not found out.
(d) No error

Q15.When the police approached him he held up his both hands to show that he was surrendering.
(a) When the police approached him
(b) he held up his both hands
(c) to show that he was surrendering.
(d) No error

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