IBPS PO General Awareness: English Grammar and Usage questions with solutions

Q1. He said the successful competence test proves the flight of the DRDO in designing and developing world-class missile systems.

1. Only (A) - (B)
2. Both (A)-(B) and (C)-(E)
3. Only (B) - (C)
4. No rearrangement required

Answer: Only (A) - (B)

The phrase "successful competence test" is incorrect; it should be "successful test of competence" or similar. The rest of the sentence is acceptable in meaning and structure. So only the first pair needs correction.

Q2. Not only in trade liberalization (A) but in every other aspect of globalization (B), even seemingly (C) well-intentioned efforts have often backfired (D).

1. Only (C)-(D)
2. No rearrangement needed
3. Only (B)-(C)
4. Only (A)-(D) and (B)-(C)

Answer: No rearrangement needed

The sentence uses the correlative structure 'not only ... but in ...' in a grammatically acceptable way for this context. The modifiers and clause order are also coherent, so no rearrangement is required.