121.
(a) The college library is
(b) not only equipped with
(c) very good books but also with the latest journals.
Answer: No error.
122.
(a) The lovers walked
(b) besides each other
(c) in silence.
Answer: (b) The lovers walked beside each other in silence.
The preposition besides means in addition to, whereas beside means next to.
123.
(a) Men are wanted
(b) for the army,
(c) and the navy, and the air force.
Answer: (c) Men are wanted for the army, the navy and the air force.
When joining two or more grammatically similar expressions, and is used followed in the end and commas are used to distinguish the other expressions.
124.
(a) I and him
(b) are
(c) very good friends.
Answer: (a) If pronouns of different persons are to be used together in a sentence to provide good and normal sense then the serial order should be second, third and first so here it should “He and I are very good friends.”
125.
(a) One should
(b) look after
(c) their parents.
Answer: (c) When a sentence starts with ‘one’ then to in accordance with the singularity of the subject it should be one’s parents.
126.
(a) She placed
(b) the offering
(c) to God in the altar.
Answer: (c) ‘God’ is a universal noun so it should be preceded by ‘the’.
127.
(a) Teachers were instructed
(b) to follow an uniform method
(c) of evaluation.
Answer: (b) According to the rules of the ‘articles’ the word ‘uniform’ should be preceded by ‘a’ because here the vowel sound of ‘u’ is different.
128.
(a) The newspapers they admit that
(b) advertising sometimes
(c) influences their editorial policy.
Answer: (a) Here the use of ‘they’ is not needed as ‘the newspaper’ itself is the subject.
129.
(a) No sooner did I finish
(b) my speech, I was subjected
(c) to a barrage of questions.
Answer: (b) According to the rules of conjunctions the word ‘no sooner…’ should be followed by ‘than…’
130.
(a) I saw him
(b) coming out of the hotel
(c) on 60 o’clock.
Answer: (c) The preposition ‘on ‘ is used to indicate a date or place should be ‘by’.
131.
(a) One of my friend
(b) is returning
(c) to India from the U.S.A.
Answer: (a) Here it means one among many so it should be ‘one of my friends…’
132.
(a) He knows
(b) that your muscles
(c) are not same as his.
Answer: .(c) Here due to the sense of comparison it should be ‘the same…’
133.
(a) We shall wait
(b) till you
(c) will finish your lunch.
Answer: .(c) Here the word ‘will’ is not needed because ‘shall’ is already used in the initial part of the sentence that itself signifies the tense of the sentence.