Inappropriate Words / Misspelt English Words

Friends, today we shall discuss about one more important topic of English Section for Competitive Exams Misspelt / Inappropriate words. In this type of questions they will give you a sentence highlighting four words. Of those four words one may be either wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence.You just have to find out the words which is wrongly spelt / misspelt or inappropriate if any.

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English Sentence Correction Practice Problems for Bank PO and Clerk Exams

Friends, here are some problems on English Sentence Correction / Error Correction of higher difficulty level for IBPS PO and IBPS RRB PO Exams. What you have to do is, take a paper and write these sentences on it. Every sentence has some grammatical error in it. So you have to underline the part which is having error and you should correct form of the sentence below the given sentence. The allotted time for it is 15 minutes. After 15 minutes we will upload the key with detailed explanations so that you can check your answers.  What are you waiting for ? Just take a piece of paper and start answering these. All the Best. 

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Correction of Sentences in English

Friends, today we shall discuss one of the very important topics of SBI PO and other competitive exams' English Section Correction of Sentences or Correct usage of words in English. In this type of questions, each sentence is divided into four parts and each part is marked below as A, B, C, and D. There is a mistake in any one part of the sentence. The students are required to detect which part contains the mistake. If there is no mistake in any part of the sentence, it should be marked as No Error (Option E).

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Essay Writing Tips for Bank Exams Descriptive Paper - Planning

This is the Lesson IV of our Bank Exams Descriptive Paper Writing (Essays) Lesson Series. Before reading this article, it is advisable to read previous lessons first. 

Read Lesson I here

Lesson II here

Lesson III here

In our previous post we have discussed about Preparation of Essay. In this post we shall discuss about Planning.

Planning

The ideas thus generated need to be logically arranged. Main ideas and supporting (subordinate) ideas need to be properly grouped together. Identify main ideas and group the relevant ideas around each of them. Develop each main idea into an independent paragraph. This exercise will help you decide on how many paragraphs your essay will have. While planning you can use tree diagrams, a table / column or note-form as follows.

• Topic : English in the 21st Century
• Introduction :
• English as the world language
• Spread of English - an overview
• Facts about English :
• Users of English
• English as a window to the world
• Literature
• Culture
• Ideas
• Use in business, trade and industry
• Information Technology :
• Dominance of Information Technology
• Role of English in IT
• Conclusion

Check the Lesson V (Last lesson of Essay Writing )Drafting Here

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Indian Bank PO - Previous Paper - English

This is the previous paper of Indian Bank's Probationary Officer Exam held on 17th January 2010.  All The Best.

Directions—(Q. 1–5) Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make it meaningful and grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark (E) as the answer.

1. We have accepted over two billion dollars from them yet it is been used to build hospital in the area—
(A) that is yet to use
(B) although it has been used
(C) not yet being used
(D) which will be used
(E) No correction required
Ans : (C)

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IBPS Clerks Online Exam Practice Papers - English Section

Directions—(Q. 1-15) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

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A sobbing little girl stood near a small school from which she had been turned away because it ‘was too crowded’. “I can’t go to School,” she sobbed to a priest as he walked by Seeing her shabby,unkempt appearance, the priest guessed the reason and taking her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the school class. The child was so touched that she went to bed that night thinking of the children who have no place to study.

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Some Common Errors in English

All of us know English. We can chat with our friends in English, read English books and ofcourse watch English movies and understands them. But we cant get more marks in English paper of bank exams. Some times we feel disappointed by seeing our English marks lesser than our expectations. Whats the problem ? Well the problem is "we Neglect some basic things!!! we know everything, but we don't mind forgetting them. Lets have a look at some common errors in English. Just read these point twice or thrice so that you can get 5 marks at least for sure :)

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Conditionals - English for Competitive Exams

In this post we shall discuss about Conditionals. Another important topic which is useful in writing Competitive Exams. Especially Bank Exams.

There are two kinds of conditionals

• Real
• Unreal

Real conditions are used for possible situations. The present tense is used in the if - clause (or conditional clause), and the future tense is used in the result clause.

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Parallelism - English for Competitive Exams

In this post, we shall discuss about PARALLELISM. An important topic, which is helpful to you in solving English Language section in Competitive Exams especially Bank Exams. Now have a look at the following Points.

• Item in a series must be parallel : I mean, they must have the same Grammatical form. 

• Nouns : 
• He Likes music, art, and science.

• Gerunds : 
• He likes dancing, Swimming, and painting. (Verb + Ing Form)

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Parts of Speech - Identification

The words in English can be classified (according to their functions in a sentence) into Parts of Speech as follows.

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Verb
• Adverb
• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Interjection

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Verbs - Shortcut Rules - Part 2

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Shortcut Rule 11 : When the subordinate clause expresses a universal truth the past tense in the main clause may be followed by a Present Tense.

• He said that the sun rose in the East. ☓
• He said that the sun rises in the East. ✔

Shortcut Rule 12 : The Past Tense in the main clause may be followed by any tense after the conjunction "Than" in the subordinate clause. 

• He worked faster than we do / did. ✔

Shortcut Rule 13 : In Conditional Sentences, to express improbability in the Present, the Simple Past Tense in the if clause and the Present

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Verbs - Shortcut Rules - Part 1

In this post we shall discuss some important shortcuts Rules about Nouns which comes in handy while solving Banking and Other Competitive Exams papers. 

Shortcut Rule 1 : If the subject is of the third person, singular number (He, She, It) add 'S' or 'es / ies' to the first form of the verb to make it singular number.

• She plays the violin every day.
• He loves his parents
• The dog barks at the people.
• The bird flies in the Sky.
• He does his duty. 

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Nouns - Shortcut Rules

In this post, we shall discuss some important Shortcut Rules about Nouns which comes in handy for your upcoming competitive exams.

Shortcut Rule 1 : The following words are uncountable and are normally used in the singular form only. The indefinite article "A or An" Should not be used with them. They have no plural forms. 'A/An' not used before them.

Ex : Luggage / Baggage / Breakage / Advice / Furniture / Information / Scenery / Poetry / Work / Soap / Food / Bread / Fish / Paper / Machinery etc.

• The Sceneries of Kashmir is very beautiful. ☓
• The Scenery of Kashmir is very beautiful.  ✔

• I know that he has many informations. ☓
• I know that he has much information / a lot of information.  ✔

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The structure of the English Paper

English language section of Bank Exams contains Two Parts.


1. Objective
2. Descriptive


First of all We shall discuss about Objective type. In Objective type, They ask questions about
• Functional Grammar :
         Again we can decide this Functional Grammar into several parts. Those are
                                              • Speech
                                              • Voice
                                              • Degrees
                                              • Sentences
                                              • Parts of Speech
                                              • Articles
                                              • Tenses
                                              • Phrases
                                              • Classes
                                              • Miscellaneous


 • Comprehension : Comprehend means "To Understand". Here they check your ability to understand the given passage (Its always good to read the given passage for 2 or 3 times before answering it).


• Vocabulary : In this they will ask
                                                     • Wordpower
                                                     • Synonyms
                                                     • Antonyms


• Jumbled Sentences : In this, they will  jumble 5 or 6 sentences of a paragraph. You should put them into the correct order.
• Fill in the Blanks : Here they will give you some sentences with blanks, and you should fill the blanks with appropriate words.


• Sentence Completions : These are also similar to filling the blanks. But the difference is, here they give you half of the sentence and you should add the remaining sentence from the options


Friends, this is the basic structure of the English paper of Bank Exams. The most important rule while attending any English question in a competitive exam is that never look for the answer in the option, first read the question and have the strength to find its answers without looking into options after you get the answer check that in option and choose it. But if you go for option directly you will just get confused because examiner sets options in such a way that you feel all the options are correct this will drop your confidence and you will definitely opt for a wrong option. Hope this article helped you... Thats all for now friends... Have a Good Day. 

                                                                                               

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