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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Identify the part having an error.
  1. The damaged
  2. mural is able
  3. of being
  4. restored
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. There are many
  2. who wonders how such
  3. a little girl could accomplish
  4. such a big task
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Senior colleagues of the college
  2. often hope that
  3. they will be well acquainted
  4. with the affairs of their junior colleagues
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He worked
  2. doggedly
  3. in face of
  4. all hurdles
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. I have no allusions
  2. as to my capacity
  3. to grab that
  4. coveted job
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. One can travel
  2. in a carrier
  3. that far
  4. but no further
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. One
  2. does not plot
  3. intrigues against
  4. his own family
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He bound
  2. the thief
  3. to a post
  4. by a strong rope
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Seeing such
  2. a cruel scene
  3. her face turned pale
  4. out of fear
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Such
  2. wealth that
  3. he earned he spent on
  4. drinks and hoteling
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Fluosol is a transparency liquid
  2. that closely resembles water
  3. but in fact is twice
  4. as dense as it is
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. The train is late today
  2. for it has just been announced
  3. that it will arrive in a hour
  4. on platform number three
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. The next generation of commercial airplanes
  2. are expected to be faster
  3. less fuel-thirsty and
  4. more computerized than the present one
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Amphibians are creatures that
  2. live equally effortlessly
  3. in water as well as land and are found
  4. on all the continents of the world
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Along the northern border of India
  2. is seen the Himalayas
  3. tall, mighty and majestic
  4. in their unique splendor
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Each of the speakers whom I invited
  2. to participate in the debate
  3. has indicated their unwillingness
  4. because of the short notice
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Arthur leads a content life
  2. among his relatives in his village
  3. and rarely visits the city though
  4. he has many friends here
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. The ground felt very smoothly
  2. because of the flowers that had fallen
  3. in profusion from the trees
  4. which were in full bloom in the spring
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. To this day, the Pythagoras theorem
  2. remains the very important theorem
  3. in the realm of mathematics
  4. including algebra, geometry and trigonometry
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following sentence four words or phrases have been underlined. Only one underlined part in each sentence is not acceptable in standard English. Pick up the part (A) or (B) or (C) or (D).

The persecutors (A) laid a heavy fine (B) on an old man who (C) was unable to pay. (D) So soldiers were dragging him to the prison.

  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: In the following sentence four words or phrases have been underlined. Only one underlined part in each sentence is not acceptable in standard English. Pick up the part (A) or (B) or (C) or (D).
The proverb means (A) that (B) when you (C) can do a thing today do not (D) put it of till tomorrow.
  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these parts contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. The creatures on Mars, if any
  2. are bound to be very different from us
  3. not only in shape but also in size
  4. because of different gravitational conditions
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: In the following sentence four words or phrases have been underlined. Only one underlined part in each sentence is not acceptable in standard English. Pick up the part (A) or (B) or (C) or (D).
Such (A) startling bargains (B) never have been, (C) neither can be, and never (D) will be offered again.
  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: In the following sentence four words or phrases have been underlined. Only one underlined part in each sentence is not acceptable in standard English. Pick up the part (A) or (B) or (C) or (D).
He (A) feels his troubles are(B) as much or (C) even more than (D) they.
  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: In the following sentence four words or phrases have been underlined. Only one underlined part in each sentence is not acceptable in standard English. Pick up the part (A) or (B) or (C) or (D).
(A) Our strongest reason (B) for siding (C) with the communists is (D) because our father is a communist.
  1. (A)
  2. (B)
  3. (C)
  4. (D)
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