English Language Quiz For Bank Mains Exam 2024-01st March

Directions (1-5): Which of the following phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence meaningfully correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark “No Change required” as your answer.

Q1. Potential electricity production had reduces by about 13% in the past 40 years.

(a) had reduced by about
(b) has reduced by about
(c) has reducing by about
(d) has reduces by about
(e) No change required

Q2. Increased warming in the Indian Ocean and the resultant weak of the Indian summer monsoon may come in the way of India’s goal of leading the world’s wind power generation.

(a) the resultant weakening off the
(b) the resultant weakening of them
(c) the resultant weakening of the
(d) them resultant weakening of the
(e) No change required

Q3. In the paper published last December in Science Advances, the researchers showed a decline in electricity production in the States of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Karnataka.

(a) showed an decline in
(b) showed a decline into
(c) showed a declining in
(d) showing an decline in
(e) No change required

Q4. Summer winds in India are driven by them temperature contrast between the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean, and the warming in the Indian Ocean has reduced this contrast.

(a) are driven by the temperature
(b) are drive by the temperature
(c) are driven been the temperature
(d) are drives by the temperature
(e) No change required

Q5.  Warming of the Equatorial Indian Ocean resulted the a decline in the wind speed.

(a) resulted in an decline in the
(b) resulted in a decline in the
(c) resulted into an decline in the
(d) resulted in a declining in the
(e) No change required

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. Option ‘ has reduced by about ‘ is the correct choice here and makes the sentence contextually and grammatically correct. ‘Has reduced’ is correct here, ‘has’ will be used as the subject in the sentence is singular in nature.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. Option ‘the resultant weakening of the’ is the correct choice here and makes the sentence contextually and grammatically correct. ‘Weakening’ will be used in the sentence.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. No change required.

S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Option ‘are driven by the temperature’ is the correct choice here and makes the sentence contextually and grammatically correct. ‘Driven’ will be used in the sentence as the sentence is in passive voice.

S5. Ans.(b)
Sol. Option ‘resulted in a decline in the’ is the correct choice here and makes the sentence contextually and grammatically correct. The article ‘a’ will be used here as it is followed by ‘decline’.

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