Error Identification

Article Conjunction and Preposition (easy)

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. I shall
  2. go on talking
  3. to you
  4. if you like it or not
  5. No error
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. I am
  2. very slow
  3. in
  4. calculations
  5. No error
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. Any
  2. of these
  3. two pens
  4. belongs to me
  5. No error
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5) as your answer.

  1. The great bulk
  2. of people
  3. was either having one-time meal or
  4. not having at all
  5. No error
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. He gave
  2. me
  3. a gun
  4. to shoot
  5. No error
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. On my way
  2. to theatre, I accidentally came
  3. across with
  4. an old friend
  5. No error
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. This is
  2. a
  3. comfortable house
  4. to live
  5. No error
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. The English
  2. defeated French
  3. in the battle
  4. of Waterloo
  5. No error
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. Although
  2. you have
  3. made good to him
  4. but he still speaks ill of you
  5. No error
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into 4 parts and numbered (1) to (4). In one of the parts, there is some grammatical error. You have to identify the part having an error and mark it as your answer. If no part has an error, mark (5) as your answer.

  1. When I
  2. called at him
  3. yesterday
  4. he was not at home
  5. No error
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. Here is
  2. book
  3. you wanted
  4. to study
  5. No error
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. She has
  2. no affection
  3. even with
  4. her own children
  5. No error
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. He
  2. is
  3. a N.C.C.
  4. cadet
  5. No error
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. All of them
  2. helped each other
  3. when the earthquake
  4. devastated the town
  5. No error
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. Earth
  2. revolves
  3. around
  4. the sun
  5. No error
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

(A) Very occasionally a neutrino will collide with a neutron (B) in a chloride nucleus, turning the (C) latter into a proton and simultaneously turning the chlorine atom (D) to radioactive argon. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

Bacteria are of many (A) kinds, and (B) practice (C) a great variety of (D) chemical processes to maintain themselves. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

(A) Beside the ages of nine and fifteen, (B) almost all (C) young people undergo a (D) rapid series of physiological changes. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

(A) While scientists say that, on an average, the global temperature (B) has increased by a few degrees centigrade, (C) they are talking about a very large increase and a tremendous amount of heat (D) produced. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

(A) Not (B) till a baby kangaroo is four (C) month old, (D) does it begin to live outside its mother’s pouch. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate of the given options.

Hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicles, are unusual _____ they travel over land and water on a layer of air.

  1. because
  2. since
  3. for
  4. in that
  5. as
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

(A) The greater the number of cars on the road, and (B) the greater the emission of exhaust gases, (C) greater is the (D) amount of pollution in the atmosphere. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

The frequency of meteors in the Earth’s atmosphere increases (A) when the Earth passes (B) through a swarm of (C) particle generated (D) by the break-up of a comet. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

(A) Although pure diamond is colourless and transparent, (B) but when contaminated with other material, (C) it may appear in various (D) colours, ranging from pastels to opaque black. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate of the given options.

The onion is characterized by an edible bulb composed of leaves rich in sugar and a pungent oil, _______ the source of the vegetable’s strong taste.

  1. which is
  2. that is
  3. being
  4. providing
  5. it being
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate of the given options.

The term robot, _______ actually a Czech word meaning labour, was first applied to machines in the 1920s.

  1. that was
  2. which is
  3. is
  4. that is
  5. which was
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

The major error (A) that managers commit (B) in problem solving is (C) to jump to a conclusion about the cause (D) of a given problem. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Four parts of the sentences given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (E).

Not only (A) speech enables man (B) to handle and (C) pass on more complicated ideas, it also (D) enables him to accumulate them. (E) No error

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
  5. (E)
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate of the given options.

The whole spinal column is surrounded _________ a number of interlocking muscles and ligaments.

  1. by
  2. with
  3. within
  4. in
  5. from
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the most appropriate of the given options.

A camera with an interchangeable lens mount can accept other lenses ______ the normal lens for that camera.

  1. beside
  2. besides
  3. except
  4. including
  5. excluding

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