Top 100 Error Detection Questions For SBI Clerk-2018
English Language
Top 100 Most Important Error Detection
Questions
For SBI CLERK-2018
Direction: (Q. No. 1- 100): The sentence given
below, have four parts, indicated by (a), (b), (c)
and (d). Read each sentence to find out
whether there is any error. If a sentence has
no error, indicate the part (e), which stands for
‘No error’. (Ignore the error of punctuation, if
any.
1. There were a great many question (a) / which
were (b) / left unanswered (c) / at the end of
the enquiry (d) / No error (e).
2.a) Agriculture is the backbone of the/b) Indian
economy but the sad part/c) was that it is still
in a rudimentary stage,/d) which ultimately
affects the overall economy/e) No error.
3. a) The proposed INO project, /b)primarily
aims to study atmospheric neutrinos/c) in a
1300 m deep cavern in/d) the Bodi West Hills in
Tamil Nadu /e) No error.
4. You cannot (a)/ master physics (b)/ without
learning the (c)/ formula that govern it. (d) / No
Error (e).
5. a) The rail coach has been / b) shifted near
the station/c) and would be developed/ d) as a
unique restaurant/ e) No error.
6. A shoal (a) / of wolves (b) / attacked (c) / the
travelers. (d)/ No error (e)
7. (a) The Government cannot/ (b) be able to
contain/ (c) Encephalitis by spending just 1% of
GDP on Health sector. /(d) No error.
8. a) Heavy Hails in many / b)parts of apple
growing/ c) areas also resulted in/ d) huge
losses to farmers/ e) No error.
9. Just to the North of India (a) / is the
Himalayas (b) / that were once impregnable (c)
/ No error (d)
10. The price of (a)/ production in the (b)/
industrial sector (c)/ has gone up. (d)/ No Error
(e).
11. (a) The murderer was convicted/ (b) and
ordered to/ (c) be hung. /(d) No error.
12. a) The Trinamool Congress government / b)
is all set to issue an order changing the/ c) very
nature /d) of students. e) No error.
13. Myself and Sumit (a) / will take care of (b) /
the function on Tuesday. (c) / No error (d)
14. (a)The company has appointed / (b)
consultants to help them / (c) increase its
revenue / (d) no error.
15. Women after women (a) / spoke against (b)
/ the practice (c) / of dowry. (d) / No Error (e)
16. I tried to tell him a number of times (a) that
it was only me at the door but he (b) kept on
shouting and suspecting (c) it to be one of the
men of the club.(d) No error (e)
17. a) The IT and Innovation Fund/ b) promote
Indian- Russian cooperation/ c) in the area of IT
Technologies/ d) and innovation/ e) No error.
18. (a) I, you and she / (b) were accused / (c) of
committing robbery in broad daylight / (d) no
error.
19. (a) He is not one of those / (b) who will help
every Tom, Dick and Harry / (c) whom he meets
/ (d) no error.
 Top 100 Error Detection Questions For SBI Clerk-2018
20. a) There are forces, / b) in our neighboring
countries,/ c)which are trying to misguide and/
d) mislead the youth of Kashmir/ e) No error.
21. The Chief Minister said that (a)/ his party
would not repeat the mistakes (b)/ done by the
(c)/previous government. (d)/No error (e)
22. (a) No one can / (b) challenge death / (c)
isn’t it? /(d) No error.
23. They that run (a) / after money and publicity
(b) / are likely to be disappointed (c) / No error
(d)
24. Mohit (a)/ handed over (b) / a hundred
rupees note (c) / to the shopkeeper. (d)/ No
error (e)
25. The period of twenty-five years (a) / have
passed (b) / and still he is without a job (c) / No
error (d)
26. a) The rules notified by the Ministry of
Labour / b)and Employment of the enforcement
of the / c)2016 amendment include/ d) some
small concessions/ e) No error.
27. Privatisation offers the most (a) / ideal
situation for consumers because (b) / Private
sector is very (c) / conscious of quality (d) / No
error (e)
28. It is disappointing not only (a)/to the players
and spectators, but to (b)/ the organisers and
advertisers as well as (c)/ who stand to lose
financially. (d)/ No error (e)
29. No less than (a) / hundred audiences are
sitting (b) / in the hall (c) / and waiting for the
final performance. (d) / No Error (e).
30. I can't allow (a) / you to go out of the class
(b) / unless they provide (c) / further
instructions. (d) / No Error (e)
31. You must admire (a) / the artwork (b) /
when your brother (c) / has done it. (d) / No
Error (e)
32. (a) It was in 1995 / (b) that we first flew / (c)
to the Canada. / (d) No error.
33. (a) Nakul said impatiently, / (b) "Let I do
this. / (c) None of you can do this.” / (d) no
error.
34. a)These restrictions/ b) are intends to/c)
ensure attendance/ d) at school / e) No error.
35. Our destination (a) / was about (b) / fifty
and sixty (c) / kilometers to the west. (d) / No
Error (e)
36. a) The operators argued b)that telcos offers
below cost tariffs/ c) to consumers over a
period of time/ d) may harm the industry and
its financials / e) No error.
37. a) Due to certain differences / b) between
the companies with the proposed investors,/ c)
both parties has decided/ d) to terminate the
arrangement / e) No error.
38. He has lots (a) / of money (b) / and he dare
not (c) / start a company. (d) / No Error (e)
39. She ordered (a) / certain girl to (b) / make
entry into (c) / the Manager's office. (d) / No
Error (e).
40. a)One may soon be able to avail automatic
transfer/ b) of provident fund accounts on
switching jobs / c)and get provident fund
money within / d)a single day of filing the claim/
e) No error
41. a) Incidents of / b) threats of violence/ c)
against politicians have/ d) been at the rise /e)
No error.
42. The crucial point to (a)/ be discussed at the
(b)/ meeting is how to (c)/ well implement the
policy. (d)/ No error (e)
43. Mahatma Gandhi tried to eradicate (a) /
social evils with (b) / tooth and nail (c) / No
error (d)
44. a) A journalist later on broadcast/ b) the
recording saying because he / c) had not been
at the event; / d) he was not bound by the
confidentiality rule/ e) No error.
45. Little care on your part (a) / would have
made you (b) / more successful than your friend
(c) / No error (d)
46. The programme was (a) / almost fixed
though (b) / it was his negligence (c) / that led
to disappointment. (d) / No Error (e)
47. a) The Bill required each public authority to
establish / b) information and facilitation
center for an efficient and effective / c) delivery
of services and / d) redressal of grievances / e)
No error.
48. From June 1995 (a) / and June 2005, (b) /
the city's population (c) / declined by 20,000
people. (d) / No Error (e)
49. Both Sameer as well as (a) / his wife are (b) /
determined (c) / to make changes. (d) / No
Error (e)
 Top 100 Error Detection Questions For SBI Clerk-2018
50. I haven't been (a) / to Pune before and (b) /
neither my brother. (c) / No Error (d)
51. If I knew (a)/that my friend had to visit the
town today, (b)/ I would have make his stay
comfortable. (c)/No error (d)
52. Could you (a) / give me any money (b) / to
buy food? (c) / No error (d)
53. I never remember (a) / to have read (b) / a
more interesting book in my life (c) / No error
(d)
54. Though he was brave, (a) / he could not face
the ups and downs (b) /of life manly.(c) / No
error (d)
55. My brother is elder (a) / than me although
(b) / he looks younger. (c) / No error (d)
56. I did not (a) / steal the oranges (b) / from
your orchard (c) / never did my brother. (d) / No
Error (e)
57. That store (a) / hadn't hardly (b) / any of the
(c) / required products. (d) / No Error (e)
58. a) I wish to continue / b) this hobby until I
collect / c) all the currency notes / d) of all the
countries / e) No error.
59. a) By contrast, Senate Republicans/b) have
significantly altered the House’s approach /c)to
the individual market, who serves those /d)who
buy health insurance for themselves/ e) No
error.
60. Hardly had she (a) / seen her aunt (b) / than
she stopped (c) / fighting. (d) / No Error (e)
61. I was surprised (a) / to see her speak (b) /
with somewhat anger (c) / No error (d)
62. a) One of the few media companies / b)who
dares to criticise the government has been /
c)raided by police on grounds that would not/d)
normally attract such heavy-handedness/ e) No
error.
63. Kajol cannot ask (a) / her father (b) / for his
car without (c) / any vividly reason (d) / No
error. (e)
64. a) It is also time for some / b) introspection
with the/ c) judiciary on the manner in/d) which
judges are chosen/ e) No error.
65. Prince (a) / saw (b) / a crew of ship (c) / in
the harbor. (d)/ No error (e)
66. The writer (a) / got his wife’s permittance
(b) / to go (c) / to the cinema. (d) / No error (e)
67. She has bought (a) / a dozen of copies (b) /
of English Literature (c) / books. (d) / No Error
(e).
68. Some psychologists maintain (a) / that a
child who has seen violence (b) /on television is
more likely to react (c) / violent in situations of
stress. (d) / No error (e).
69. a) The change ends up uncertainty/ b) over
succession and empowers Prince Mohammad/
c) to move faster with his plan to reduce/ d) the
kingdom’s dependence on oil /e) No error.
70. My son is a nature-lover. (a) / He’d rather
play in the forests (b) / then watch movies on
the television. (c) / No error (d).
71. a)Effectively, a book is banned / b) without
a hearing / c) The book then stays banned /
d)until the case is not completed / e) No error
72. (a) Our knowledge of history does not come
to our help/ (b) and sometimes we even fail to
remember/ (c) who invented America. /(d) No
error.
73. She instructed me (a) / to write the (b) /
application in (c) / capital letter. (d) / No Error
(e).
74. a) We want almost/b) every car and van /c)
to be zero emission /d) till 2050/ e) No error.
75. a) Patience / b) as well as / c) perseverance
are / d) necessary for success / e) No error.
76. These kind (a) / of shoes (b) / are rather
expensive (c) / for her to buy. (d)/ No error (e)
77. Hemant could (a) / only eat raw food (b) /
because of digestion issues (c)/ since his
childhood. (d) / No Error (e)
78. Raghav has not seldom (a) / visited his
parents (b) / since he left this place (c) / No
error (d).
79. a) We ought to /b) honest/c) in our/d)
dealings. (e) No Error.
80. a)Any badly located /b) city can be
vulnerable /c)merely with virtue /d)of its
location/e) No error.
81. It had been too cold (a) / the whole month
and we preferred (b) / to stay in the plains (c) /
No error (d)
82. Darts are (a) / played by (b) / men as well (c)
/ as women. (d) / No Error (e).
 Top 100 Error Detection Questions For SBI Clerk-2018
83. a) We have no clue /b) with the amount of
information /c)about our private lives/d) that is
out in the web.
84. (a) My cousin sister is a teacher / (b) and she
/ (c) teaches her children and friends too. / (d)
No error.
85. a)The report noted that /b)output along the
manufacturing/c) sector rose for the sixth
consecutive/d) month in June/e) No error.
86. The crucial point to (a)/ be discussed at the
(b)/ meeting is how to (c)/ well implement the
policy. (d)/ No error (e)
87. a) In 23 years, the court did not /b)
interpret the right to life as a principle of
natural justice,/c) but as a fragile right that
could be /d) taken away by arbitrary legislation
/e) No error.
88. As such, banks play an under - appreciated
role in the economy. / (a) To some extent, bank
loan officers / (b) decide whom projects, and /
or businesses, / (c) are worth pursuing and are
deserving of capital. /(d) No error / (e).
89. The teacher helped everyone / (a) of those
boys / (b) in doing their work. / (c) No error / (d)
90. a) Beside allowing /b) potential investors
to/c) make informed decisions, /d) this will
open up a new sector in India /e) No error.
91. Although she had been hired (a) / by the
magazine to write book reviews (b) / she knew
scarcely nothing (c) / about current fiction (d)
No error (e).
92. a)However, he declared /b)that despite of
the/c) U.S. declaration the freedom /d)struggle
for Kashmir would continue /e) No error.
93. (a) I have practiced so much / (b) for the
singing competition that there/ (c) is no
question of / (d) mine coming second. (e) No
error.
94. a) Very few young trainees/ b) willingly
undertakes / c) a posting to a branch/ d) located
in a rural area/ e) No error.
95. a) It is necessarily to maintain/ b) a record
of all transactions/ c) in case the auditors/ d)
want to see it/ e) No error.
96. Dear children, / (a) enjoy / (b) during the
holidays / (c) No error. (d)
97. a) The agreement on/ b) which all of us
have/ c) worked so hard will/ d) be sign
tomorrow/ e) No error.
98.a) Since then, 180 militants has been /b)
killed, both in the Kashmir/c) Valley and on /d)
the LOC. / e) No error.
99. (a) Though Raj appears / (b) to be very tall
he is / (c) just an inch taller than me / (d) No
error.
100. Sooraj said (a) / it was (b) / quite all right
(c) / to reject the offer. (d) / No Error (e)
 JOIN TELEGRAM CLICK HERE

To help you in your exam

preparation, AIMBANKER TEAM is
regularly posting helpful posts,
please subscribe, follow & Share
,LIKE US ON FACEBOOK PAGE
OF AIMBANKER.

JOIN FACEBOOK CLICK HERE

Join Whatsapp @Click Here

8/8
 Top 100 Error Detection Questions (Solution) For SBI Clerk - 2018

English Language
Top 100 Most Important Error Detection
Questions (Solution)
For SBI CLERK-2018

Ans.1. (a) ‘A great many’ is always followed by a plural noun and a plural verb. So the noun ‘question’
has to be changed to ‘questions’.
Ans.2. (c) Use ‘is’ in place of ‘was’.
Ans.3. (e) No error.
Ans.4. (d) Replace 'formula' by 'formulae'. Some nouns have more than one plural form with different
meanings. Formulae - Plural, meaning- Rules of Physics.
Ans.5. (a) Use of ‘a’ in place of ‘the’.
Ans.6. (a) Replace ‘a shoal of wolves’ by ‘a pack of wolves’.
Ans.7. (b) Remove ‘be able to’ as ‘can’ and ‘could’ represent same meaning ‘as be able to’.
Ans.8. (a) Replace ‘Hails’ with ‘Hail’.
Ans.9. (b) Replace ‘is’ by ‘are’. ‘The Himalayas’ takes a plural verb because, when we mention the names
of these mountains, we immediately imagine a vast range of mountains.
Ans.10. (a) Replace 'price' with 'cost'. Price denotes amount paid by the customer, cost denotes amount
paid by the manufacturer/shopkeeper.
Ans.11. (c) Replace ‘hung’ with ‘hanged’. Hung means to suspend and hanged means death penalty.
Ans.12. (e) No error.
Ans.13. (a) Replace ‘myself’ by ‘I’.
Ans.14. (b) ‘Company’ is a singular noun. Pronoun ‘It’ will be used at the place of ‘them’.
Ans.15. (a) In cases of the form, “Noun + Preposition + Noun”, noun is always singular. It should be
‘woman after woman’.
Ans.16. (b) Error is in part (b) where a wrong pronoun ‘me’ has been used and need to be replaced by ‘I’
to make it grammatically correct.
Ans.17. (b) Use ‘will’ before promote.
Ans.18. (a) ‘you, she & I’ should come in place of ‘I, you and she’.
Ans.19. (c) Write ‘they meet’ in place of ‘he meets’.
Ans.20. (a) Use ‘some’ before “forces”.
Ans.21. (c) Replace ‘done’ by ‘made’. The correct light verb for mistake is ‘make’ and ‘do’ is the wrong
light verb here.
Ans.22. (c) Replace ‘isn’t it’ by ‘can they’.
Ans.23. (a) Replace ‘they’ by ‘those’.
Ans.24. (c) Replace ‘a hundred rupees note’ with ‘a hundred rupee note’.
Ans.25. (b) Subject here is ‘The period’ which takes singular verb, so replace ‘have’ by ‘has’.
 Top 100 Error Detection Questions (Solution) For SBI Clerk - 2018

Ans.26. (b) Use ‘Employment for the’ in place of ‘Employment of the’

Ans.27. (a) Delete ‘most’ as ideal is an absolute word, which means ‘The most appropriate’.
Ans.28. (b) Replace ‘but’ by ‘but also’. Whenever we use ‘not only’, the other part of this correlative
conjunction is ‘but also’.
Ans.29. (a) Replace 'less' with 'fewer'. 'Less' denotes 'in small degree'. 'Fewer' denotes 'number'.
Ans.30. (c) Replace 'unless' with 'until'. ‘Until’ denotes sense of time, whereas ‘Unless’ denotes
condition. In this case, ‘Until’ must be used.
Ans.31. (c) Replace 'when' with 'if'. To express condition we use 'if'.'When' would mean admire
whenever brother has done the artwork, that is not the intention here.
Ans.32. (b) Use ‘when’ in place of ‘that’ as the sentence is talking about time.
Ans.33. (b) Replace ‘Let I’ by ‘Let me’. ‘Let’ is always followed by objective case pronouns.
Ans.34. (b) Use ‘intended’ in place of ‘intends’.
Ans.35. (c) Replace 'and' with 'or'. In this case, destination cannot be both 'fifty and sixty' kilometers at
the same time. The intention here to convey, either one of the two.
Ans.36. (b) Replace ‘offers’ with ‘offering’.
Ans.37. (c) Use ‘Have’ in place of ‘has’.
Ans.38. (c) Replace 'and' with 'but'. To show two contrasting qualities of same subject, use of 'but' is
preferred rather than 'and'.
Ans.39. (b) Replace ‘certain’ with ‘a certain'.
Ans.40. (e) No error.
Ans.41. (d) Replace ‘at’ with ‘on’.
Ans.42. (d) Implement is the verb and well is the adverb so ‘well’ must be placed after ‘implement’. In
this way the sentence would be like “how to implement the policy well”.
Ans.43.(b) Delete ‘with’. The sentence should be like “Mahatma Gandhi tried to eradicate social evils
tooth and nail”.
Ans.44. (a) Remove “on”.
Ans.45. (a) Add ‘a’ before ‘little’. ”A little" is positive and it means the same as "a small amount of".
"Little" is negative and it means the same as "not much".
Ans.46. (b) Replace 'though' with 'but'. To show contrasting qualities, 'but' is used.
Ans.47. (a) Replace ‘each’ with ‘every’.
Ans.48. (b) Replace 'and' with 'to'. 'From' is always followed by 'to'. The correct sentence should be
“From June 1995 to June 2005, the city's population declined by 20,000 people.”
Ans.49. (a) Replace 'as well as' with 'and'. 'Both..and' is used in pair (Co-relative Conjunction).
Ans.50. (c) Add 'has' after 'neither'. 'Neither' is followed by 'helping verb' and then the 'subject' i.e.
'neither has my brother'.
Ans.51. (c) The correct usage is ‘Would + have + made’. So replace ‘make’ by ‘made’.
Ans.52. (b) Replace ‘any’ by ‘some’. Use some in affirmative and any in negative and interrogative
sentences.
Ans.53. (a) Replace ‘never’ by ‘do not’.
Ans.54. (c) Replace ‘manly’ by ‘manually’ as ‘Manly’ is adjective, it means brave / strong.
Ans.55. (a) Replace ‘elder’ by ’older’.
Ans.56. (d) In some cases, Neither can be substituted by 'Do/Does not'. In that case, both clauses must
have 'do/does'. Replace 'never' with 'nor'.
Ans.57. (b) 'Hardly' itself conveys a negative sense. Use of 'had not' is not required in this case.
Ans.58. (b) Replace “Until” with “till”.
Ans.59. (c) Use ‘which’ in place of ’who’.
Ans.60. (c) 'Hardly' is always followed by 'when'. 'When' cannot be replaced by any other word.
Ans.61. (c) Replace ‘somewhat’ by ‘some’.
 Top 100 Error Detection Questions (Solution) For SBI Clerk - 2018

Ans.62. (b) Use of ‘that’ in place of ‘who’.

Ans.63. (d) Replace ‘vividly’ with ‘vivid’. Here ‘vividly’ is an adverb which cannot qualify a noun ‘reason’
and an adjective is needed here.
Ans.64. (b) Use ‘within’ in place of ‘with’.
Ans.65. (c) ‘A fleet of ships’ is the right usage.
Ans66. (b) write ‘permission’ at the place of ‘permittance’.
Ans.67. (b) The correct expression should be - 'a dozen copies' or 'dozens of copies'.
Ans.68. (d) Replace ‘violent’ by ‘violently’ as violent is intended to modify ‘to react’ a veb form. So the
adverb violently is required.
Ans.69 (a) Remove the word ‘up’ before the uncertainty.
Ans.70. (c) Replace ‘then’ by ‘than’. ‘Rather-than’ is the correct correlative conjunction to be used.
Ans.71. (d) Remove “not” from the sentence, as after the word “until” use of not is wrong.
Ans.72. (c) Replace ‘invented’ with ‘Discovered’ which means find something during a search.
Ans.73. (d) The correct usage is 'letters'. The intention here is to convey that the complete application is
to be written in block (capital) letters.
Ans.74. (d) Replace “till” with “by”.
Ans.75. (c) Replace “are” with “is”. When we combine two subjects with ‘as well as’, verb is in
accordance with the noun before ‘as well as’.
Ans.76. (a) Replace ‘kind’ by ‘kinds’.
Ans.77. (b) Replace only eat by “Eat only” as ‘Only’ should be placed immediately before the word it
qualifies.
Ans.78. (a) Delete ‘not’ as seldom itself means not often, rarely.
Ans.79 (a) Add “be” after “ought to“.
Ans.80 (c) Use “by” in place of “with”.
Ans.81. (a) Replace ‘too’ by ‘very’.
Ans.82. (a) 'Darts' is a noun, which 'looks' plural, but is used as 'singular'. The correct sentence should be
‘Darts is played by men as well as women.’
Ans.83 (b) Use “to” in place “with”.
Ans.84. (a) Remove ‘sister’ after ‘cousin’. As ‘cousin brother’ or ‘cousin sister’ is the wrong usage.
Ans.85 (b) Replace “along” with “across”.
Ans.86. (d) Implement is the verb and well is the adverb so ‘well’ must be placed after ‘implement’. In
this way the sentence would be like “how to implement the policy well”.
Ans.87. (a) Replace “in” with “for”.
Ans.88. (c) ‘Which’ should replace ‘whom’ as the sentence is talking about projects.
Ans.89. (c) Use ‘In doing his work’ at the place of ‘in doing their work’.
Ans.90 (a) Use “besides” in place of “beside”.
Ans.91. (c) ‘Scarcely nothing’ is a double negative. The sentence must be read ‘Scarcely anything’.
Ans.92 (b) Remove “of” from the sentence.
Ans.93. (d) ‘My’ will be used. Pronoun coming before ‘V- ing’ remains in the possessive form.
Ans.94. (b) Use ‘Undertake’ in place of ‘Undertakes’.
Ans.95 (a) ‘necessary’ in place of ‘necessarily’.
Ans.96. (c) Write ‘yourselves’ after ‘enjoy’.
Ans.97 (d) signed’ in place of ‘sign’.
Ans.98 (a) The correct usage is “have” in place of “has”.
Ans.99. (c) As comparison is being done with the subject not with object, subject pronoun ‘I’ will come
at the place of ‘me’.
Ans.100.(c) Remove quite. 'Quite all' cannot be used together. Either 'quite right' or 'all right' should be
used.
Top 100 Error Detection Questions (Solution) For SBI Clerk - 2018