Error Identification

English Error Spotting and Sentence Correction FREE Online Practice and Preparation Test

26 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The sentence given below is divided into parts . Identify the erroneous part.

  1. You should not discuss
  2. about the matter
  3. with friends who are likely
  4. to find it offensive.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. The angry boatsmen threw
  2. the cracked oar
  3. in the river
  4. and returned home.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Yet the writers
  2. have no qualms
  3. depicting the gory
  4. details of the violence.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. I always prefer
  2. working in a relaxed atmosphere
  3. than one full of
  4. tension and anxiety.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. We returned to the guest house
  2. impressed by
  3. what we had seen.
  4. no error
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. You should not discuss
  2. about the matter
  3. with friends who are likely
  4. to find it offensive.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. In my opinion
  2. Rajeev is very honest
  3. and can be depended.
  4. no error
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. It must be said
  2. to his credit that
  3. he stood towards his friends
  4. through thick and thin.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Several prominent figures
  2. involved in the scandal
  3. are required to appear
  4. to the investigation committee.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Find the part of the sentence that has an error.

  1. The law is a sleeping giant
  2. and untill someone affected by it
  3. makes it wake up
  4. it will continue to sleep.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. She shifted her residence
  2. to this city to be
  3. close with the child
  4. she had wanted to adopt.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. All the players
  2. except Sanya
  3. was present
  4. in the playground.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. As the party was going
  2. we noticed Sameer fell back
  3. in his chair, grasping for breath.
  4. no error
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. He fixed a metal ladder
  2. for the wall below his window
  3. so as to be able to
  4. escape if there was a fire.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Hari was trying for admission
  2. in the commerce college
  3. even though his parents wanted
  4. him to take up medicine.
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. The teacher
  2. was pleased
  3. at Ajay.
  4. no error
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. The doctor and some of his colleagues
  2. were invited
  3. for the charity show
  4. staged by the Manit college.
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. The boy stood
  2. by me
  3. panting for breath.
  4. no error
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. He is in the habit
  2. of going out
  3. on a morning walk
  4. regularly.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Mukesh has been trying
  2. to develop a medicine to kill
  3. Hiv for the last ten years.
  4. No error
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Both the form and substance
  2. of what he says
  3. about his life and work
  4. testify for a great reserve of inner energy.
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. He says that
  2. he has a car
  3. beside a truck.
  4. no error
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Yesterday, Dinesh came across with
  2. one of his
  3. old friends.
  4. no error
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. It is not possible for me
  2. to exchange the goods
  3. once the sale has been completed.
  4. no error
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. Mr. Shyam was acused for murder
  2. but the court found him innocent
  3. and acquitted him.
  4. no error
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:" arial;="" font-size:="" 13px;="" line-height:="" 14px;="">Find the part of the sentence having the error.

  1. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">Half the battle is
  2. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">won ,if my attitude
  3. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">is pleasant and
  4. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times" new="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa="">charismatic.