Error Identification

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Although the manager was
  2. keen on getting the work
  3. done through Rakesh yesterday itself,
  4. he tries to avoid it.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. We threw out some old furniture
  2. so that the new television set
  3. has enough space.
  4. No error
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. When viewed with his
  2. point of view, the
  3. entire episode assumed
  4. a different colour altogether.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Identify the part with an error.
  1. “Meatless Days”
  2. have been made
  3. into a film.
  4. No error
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Identify the part with an error.
  1. This small table
  2. will collapse
  3. if you will stand on it.
  4. No error
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Direction: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Bangalore is a beautiful city
  2. which in people
  3. have successfully blended the modern values
  4. with the traditional.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A sentence is divided into four parts which are numbered as (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the part with an error and mark it as your answer.

  1. Some
  2. of her paintings
  3. are well worth
  4. looking
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part that has an error.

  1. The acquiring
  2. a really good knack of
  3. public speaking
  4. is a matter of patient effort.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has three underlined words or phrases. The three underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. If there is no error, mark (4) as your answer.

(1) I can speak Gujarati (2) a little but not well (3) as you do. (4) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has three underlined words or phrases. The three underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. If there is no error mark (4) as your answer.

(1) Judging by what he tells me, (2) I don't think he has made a good impression (3) to the manager of the company where he works. (4) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has three underlined words or phrases. The three underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. If there is no error mark (4) as your answer.

(1) Finally, after long years of hardship (2) he succeeded (3) and this completely altered his outlook on life. (4) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into 4 parts. Identify the part with an error.

  1. As
  2. we lived in the same building,
  3. I could hardly avoid meeting her
  4. time to time.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has three underlined words or phrases. The three underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. If there is no error mark (4) as your answer.

(1) Some people (2) consider wealth (3) superior than wisdom. (4) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: A sentence has been divided into four parts and numbered (1) to (4). Identify the part having an error and mark it as your answer.

  1. Engines used in the space shuttles are
  2. much larger and
  3. more strong than
  4. the ones used in the jet planes.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has three underlined words or phrases. The underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct and mark that as your answer. If there is no error mark (4) as your answer.

(1) He hesitated to accept the post (2) as he did not think the salary would not be enough (3) for a man with a family of ten. (4) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Directions: Identify the part with an error.
  1. The bus was
  2. hired
  3. by the ladies
  4. for its picnic.
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. The ways of travelling
  2. has changed dramatically
  3. since
  4. the late nineteenth century.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into 4 parts. Identify the part with an error.

  1. The various consequences of
  2. the decision taken by the
  3. Finance Ministry was not
  4. foreseen by the bureaucrats.
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Direction: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

The vibrations those make (1) musical sounds are (2) more pleasure than (3) those (4) producing noise.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. I never considered him to
  2. be a person who would
  3. go back on his promise and
  4. then do not even apologise.
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Usually the climate in mountainous areas becomes
  2. much
  3. windy
  4. at higher altitudes.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

The silicon chips (1) used in computers, telephones, and video equipments (2) are (3) particular vulnerable (4) to dirt.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has three underlined words or phrases. The three underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. If there is no error mark (4) as your answer.

(1) Hari was unhappy (2) that he would (3) not attend the marriage of his friend yesterday. (4) No error

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

Viral pneumonia is (1) potentially (2) fatal because (3) it is not (4) respond to antibiotics.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2), (3) and (4). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

David Living stone's courage was (1) dramatically tested when, (2) while a journey (3) to establish a mission, he (4) was mauled by a lion.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)

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