{"id":1506,"date":"2015-12-19T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2015-12-19T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T09:28:24","slug":"ibps-clerk-mains-english-practice-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/ibps-clerk-mains-english-practice-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"IBPS Clerk Mains English &#8211; Practice Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Directions (1-5):<\/strong> Which of the phrase (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the word\/phrase printed in <strong>BOLD<\/strong> in the sentence to make it grammati-cally correct? If the sentence is correct as it given and no correction is required, mark (e) as the answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. It is compulsory for every citizen to help the administration <strong>for keep<\/strong> as the city clean. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(a)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(a) to keep the city clean<\/p>\n<p>(b) for upkeep clean the city<\/p>\n<p>(c) for keeping of the city cleanliness<\/p>\n<p>(d) to keeping the city clean<\/p>\n<p>(e) No correction required<\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. I could not help to <strong>laugh<\/strong> at the joke. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(c)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(a) to laughing<\/p>\n<p>(b) laugh<\/p>\n<p>(c) laughing<\/p>\n<p>(d) for laughing<\/p>\n<p>(e) No correction required<\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. The relatives <strong>comforted<\/strong> the old man whose wife had died.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> (b)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(a) sympathized with<\/p>\n<p>(b) consoled<\/p>\n<p>(c) pitied<\/p>\n<p>(d) consoling<\/p>\n<p>(e) No correction required<\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. The workers looked run <strong>down <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(a)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(a) exhausted<\/p>\n<p>(b) happy<\/p>\n<p>(c) relaxed<\/p>\n<p>(d) Sad<\/p>\n<p>(e) No correction required<\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>. When the principal was entering the class, all my friends quickly disappeared, leaving me alone to <strong>face the music<\/strong>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(c)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(a) to listen to him<\/p>\n<p>(b) to enter into the class<\/p>\n<p>(c) to bear the consequences<\/p>\n<p>(d) to listen to a favourable comment<\/p>\n<p>(e) No correction required<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directions (1-5): Which of the phrase (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the word\/phrase printed in BOLD in the sentence to make it grammati-cally correct? If the sentence is correct as it given and no correction is required, mark (e) as the answer. 1. It is compulsory for every citizen to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}