India has told messaging platform WhatsApp to get serious about hawking the purveyors of fake news a...........

English Language (SBI-CL) Error correction

Directions (): In each of the following questions given below, a sentence is given with some bold words which may contain errors. Below each of the sentence, a table is given with two columns in which column ‘A’ contains the list of bold words, and in column ‘B’ the suggested corrections are listed. You have to choose the best alternate among the four given options. If no correction is required against the given bold words, mark (e) .i.e. “None of the above” as your answer

India has told messaging platform WhatsApp to get serious about hawking the purveyors of fake news and variance rumours. In a meeting with one of its top hosts, the law minister stressed that over 20 lives had been lost in India due to this rumour-mongering.

COLOUMN A

(1) Hawking (2) Variance

(3) Hosts (4) Stressed

COLOUMN B

(5) Tracking (6) Vicious

(7) Honchos (8) Guessed

(4) – (8)

(2) – (6)

(1) – (5)

(1) - (5), (2) – (6) and (3-7)

None of the above

Explanation:

The words given in bold “hawking”, “variance” and “hosts” create either grammatical or contextual error in the sentence. To correct the sentence, replace these words by “tracking”, “vicious” and “honchos” respectively. Hence, option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.
Hawking means (of a person) hunt game with a trained hawk.
Variance means the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent.
Vicious means deliberately cruel or violent.
Honchos means a leader or manager; the person in charge.