Below is a sentence with three parts labelled as (A), (B), and (C). Read the sentence to find out whether there is any error in any part and indicate that part as your response against the corresponding letter i.e.,(A) or (B) or (C). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (D).
Female literacy rate has gone up by 11% (A) / in the past decade as opposed to (B) / a 3% increase in male literacy. (C) / No error (D)
Important Questions on UPSC CDS (I) Previous Year Paper 2019
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
Directions: Each of the following sentences has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The question whether war is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances, is one which has been forcing itself __________________ the attention of all thoughtful men. On this question I find myself in the somewhat ___________________ position of holding that no single one of the combatants is justified in the present war, while not taking the extreme Tolstoyan view that war is under all circumstances a __________________. Opinions on such a subject as war are the outcome of __________________ rather than of thought: given a man's emotional temperament, his convictions, _______________ on war in general, and on any particular war which may occur during his lifetime, can be __________________ with tolerable certainty. The arguments used will be mere reinforcements to convictions otherwise reached. The fundamental facts in this as in all ethical ________________ are feelings; all that thought can do is to clarify and systematize the expression of those feelings, and it is such clarifying and systematizing of my own feelings that I wish to ____________________ in the present article. In fact, the question of rights and wrongs of a particular war is generally __________________ from a juridical or quasi-juridical ___________________.
