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Common Errors Test

COMMON ERRORS

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Cattles
  2. were grazing
  3. in the meadows
  4. near our farm
  5. No error
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Many a man
  2. have
  3. been working
  4. under me
  5. No error
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. I told him
  2. the story
  3. in details
  4. to make him understand it fully
  5. No error
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. I have
  2. two sister-in-laws
  3. whose husbands
  4. are all well settled in Delhi
  5. No error
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Many a person
  2. have lost
  3. their life
  4. and property in the riots
  5. No error
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. As he stood
  2. below the shower
  3. the sharp jets of
  4. ice cold water revived his spirit
  5. No error
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The man
  2. who I have
  3. often mentioned is one whose friendship
  4. I could wish to acquire, because he is a respectable man
  5. No error
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. This girl
  2. wrote an essay
  3. so well that
  4. her teacher was exceedingly pleased with her
  5. No error
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The doctor said
  2. that patient
  3. should not have wasted
  4. a whole week before coming for help
  5. No error
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E).

  1. In my youth
  2. I used to
  3. visit
  4. Sharma’s and Chawla’s company
  5. No error
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The old man told
  2. his son that
  3. there was no such thing
  4. for luck
  5. No error
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Bacteria is
  2. probably the most
  3. common form
  4. of life on earth
  5. No error
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Many a man
  2. have
  3. been working
  4. under me
  5. No error
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Difference
  2. authorities define
  3. intelligence in
  4. different ways
  5. No error
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (4).

  1. The classical systems of dance has
  2. many features
  3. in common
  4. No Error
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The conference was
  2. attended
  3. by more than
  4. one hundred delegates
  5. No error
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. On Friday evening
  2. mamta and me
  3. took a coach
  4. for Patna and arrived at Jamal's house
  5. No error
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. There are
  2. no conducted tours
  3. for tourist to
  4. visit all the important places
  5. No error
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He neglects
  2. attending lectures
  3. regularly
  4. though college is only a few yards away form his house
  5. No error
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. If you saw
  2. the amount of samosas
  3. he consumed at breakfast this morning
  4. you would understand why he is so over-weight
  5. No error
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. In my opinion
  2. the balance sheet exhibits
  3. a true and fair
  4. view of the state of affairs of the bank
  5. No error
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Our state will
  2. not be divided
  3. into two parts
  4. at any cost
  5. No error
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. This is one of
  2. the most interesting book
  3. I have
  4. ever read
  5. No error
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The crowd at the stadium
  2. chapped jubilantly
  3. when the champion
  4. received his trophy
  5. No error
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Everyone knows
  2. that the leopard is
  3. faster
  4. of all animals
  5. No error
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Everyman, women and child
  2. is now aware
  3. of the terrible consequences of
  4. habit of smoking
  5. No error
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Each cigarette
  2. a person smoke
  3. does some harm and eventually
  4. it may cause a serious disease.
  5. No error
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Pappu was happy
  2. that
  3. Jyoti and his sister was going
  4. by the same train the next day
  5. No error
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. A first step
  2. in a rational solution
  3. to any problem
  4. is the recognition that a problem exists
  5. No error
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. One of my good friend
  2. is both artist
  3. and physician
  4. of repute
  5. No error
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. No girl
  2. in her troupe is
  3. so sprightly as
  4. your daughter
  5. No error
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. I used to visit
  2. her and
  3. I always wondered
  4. why she had those dreadful pictures on the wall
  5. No error
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The police asked
  2. each of us
  3. about our
  4. movements on the right of the crime
  5. No error
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. India has had
  2. many heroes
  3. but never one
  4. who so entirely possessed the love of his countrymen as Gandhiji
  5. No error
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The father
  2. as well as the sons were
  3. mysteriously missing
  4. from the house
  5. No error
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Each one of the men
  2. present here have
  3. given a day's salary
  4. as his contribution to the fund
  5. No error
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. We have
  2. carefully considered
  3. the importance
  4. of issues raised in the report
  5. No error
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. It was 7O'clock
  2. in the evening
  3. when the train
  4. steamed into the station
  5. No error
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. India is
  2. one of the leading
  3. film producing county
  4. in the world
  5. No error
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. You must
  2. either pay the bill at once
  3. else return the goods
  4. immediately
  5. No error
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He always contributes to
  2. and share
  3. his knowledge
  4. in important conferences Does not he?
  5. No error
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. None of us were
  2. really very happy
  3. when the guests
  4. got entry into our house
  5. No error
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E).

  1. Even if
  2. the teacher has completed the
  3. course the students cannot pass
  4. unless they study himself.
  5. No error
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The bus was hired
  2. by the ladies
  3. for
  4. its picnic
  5. No error
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E) as the answer.

  1. In an economic
  2. sense
  3. Japan has become one of
  4. our closet partner.
  5. No error
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The gambling stall
  2. was a grand success
  3. because almost everyone
  4. tried their luck
  5. No error
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. None of the girls
  2. who were present
  3. there appeared to be inclined
  4. to listen to sane advice.
  5. No error
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The only criteria
  2. to judge a person
  3. is
  4. to observe his behavior
  5. No error
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. A weather
  2. map is
  3. an important tool
  4. for geographers
  5. No error
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Ramu is the elected leader
  2. and also a person
  3. who we all
  4. can confide in
  5. No error
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E).

  1. Either Neenu or Meenu
  2. are in the wrong
  3. both can
  4. certainly never be.
  5. No error
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Many of the M. P. s
  2. absented form
  3. Parliament even in those days
  4. when issues of the 49. highest national importance were being discussed.
  5. No error
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The teacher said to the boys
  2. that
  3. one ought to work hard
  4. to earn his living.
  5. No error
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. One of the
  2. youngest independent country
  3. in the western Hemisphere, Trinidad and A
  4. Tobago, becomes a nation on August 31, 1962.
  5. No error
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He appreciates you
  2. helping him
  3. to do this sums, but he is sorry
  4. that he cannot repay you for the same.
  5. No error
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Let you and I
  2. ponder over the basic
  3. question that students
  4. do not get good guidance.
  5. No error
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E).

  1. History of mammals
  2. dates back
  3. at least to
  4. the Triassic time.
  5. No error
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The poetries of P.B. Shelley
  2. who is regarded
  3. as one of the greatest romantic poets in English literature
  4. are really very charming.
  5. No error
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Everyone of the opposition members
  2. were
  3. present in the central hall
  4. of Parliament.
  5. No error
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The way
  2. the people have suffered
  3. form the atrocities of the foreign invaders
  4. can hardly be described.
  5. No error
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The oceans attain
  2. their greatest depths
  3. not in their central parts
  4. but in certain elongated furrows.
  5. No error
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He said
  2. and everybody agreed with him,
  3. that beast
  4. 'is responsible for great cruelties.
  5. No error
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. I have lost
  2. a pen which
  3. I bought
  4. yesterday.
  5. No error
Question 64 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. When
  2. I offered him to help
  3. which he needed, he persisted
  4. in refusing it, so I left him to his fate.
  5. No error
Question 65 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E) as the answer.

  1. The establishment of the Third Reich
  2. influenced events in American History
  3. by starting a chain of events
  4. who culminated in war between Germany and the USA.
  5. No error
Question 66 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E).

  1. The usual form of
  2. a mercury thermometer is used
  3. for temperatures ranging
  4. from 40o F to 500o F.
  5. No error
Question 67 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He saw many deers
  2. running along
  3. the river bank; one of them really captivated
  4. his heart with its beautiful form.
  5. No error
Question 68 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. 'Paradise Lost' is
  2. one of those worlds's epics
  3. which have carved out immortal
  4. niches in the literary history of the world.
  5. No error
Question 69 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He didn't do anything;
  2. he fed himself
  3. on the
  4. labors of others.
  5. No error
Question 70 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The man and his horse
  2. which you saw
  3. on the road yesterday
  4. are dead.
  5. No error
Question 71 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Neither of those five boys
  2. present in the
  3. restaurant was
  4. involved in the conspiracy.
  5. No error
Question 72 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. I have already
  2. expressed my desire
  3. that between you and I
  4. there should be no formality.
  5. No error
Question 73 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Latesh, the proprietor
  2. and the manager
  3. of the firm, was
  4. deeply loved by his employees, particularly by his women employees to the point of infatuation.
  5. No error
Question 74 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. I do not really
  2. like such persons who
  3. say something and
  4. practise something totally different from what they say.
  5. No error
Question 75 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Both the
  2. Vice-Principal and Head of the
  3. Department of Chemistry
  4. are on leave.
  5. No error
Question 76 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. This question
  2. has
  3. given me
  4. lot of trouble
  5. No error
Question 77 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If there is no error, mark (E).

  1. There were
  2. ten women passengers in
  3. the cabin; they all quarreled with each other
  4. over sitting space
  5. No error
Question 78 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. He used
  2. very inaccurate
  3. language for
  4. he knew no better.
  5. No error
Question 79 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. The ideals
  2. of a man
  3. and boy
  4. are not identical.
  5. No error
Question 80 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having the error. If there is no error mark (E).

  1. Early to bed
  2. and early to rise,
  3. make a man
  4. healthy, wealthy and wise.
  5. No error
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