English Grammar - Error Identification and Correction

Practice identifying and correcting grammatical errors, including infinitive usage, question tags, comparative structures, double negatives, and common English grammar mistakes.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

She _________ commits the same mistakes in syllogism.

  1. too
  2. to
  3. also to
  4. does to
  5. none of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank with infinitive.

She is confident ________ teach the class.

  1. enough to
  2. enough too
  3. to enough
  4. to
  5. none of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

It has rained today. _______

  1. Isn't it?
  2. Didn't it?
  3. Did it?
  4. Hasn't it?
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

She succeeds in whatever she chooses ________.

  1. to do
  2. to did
  3. to becoming
  4. for doing
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

Nothing was achieved out of it. ______.

  1. Wasn’t it?
  2. Was it?
  3. Isn’t it?
  4. Is it?
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

Education gives people ample opportunities _________ strong and self-reliant.

  1. to become
  2. to becoming
  3. for becoming
  4. to became
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

Check my work. _________

  1. Will you?
  2. Wouldn’t you?
  3. Shall you?
  4. Could you?
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

There is hardly any residential colony in Delhi that is not hemmed in by slums. Yet these slums ________ serve a purpose; they provide cheap labour and captive vote banks.

  1. to
  2. too
  3. do to
  4. do too
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Mark the most suitable option to fill in the blank.

With two lakh people migrating to Delhi every year, it is not difficult ______ see why the quality of life has deteriorated at such an alarming rate.

  1. too
  2. to
  3. not to
  4. not too
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. The ship
  2. they sailed in
  3. was the ship caught in a storm
  4. along the coast of Japan
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. The short story
  2. should not exceed
  3. more than
  4. two hundred words
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Health is
  2. more
  3. preferable
  4. to wealth
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

It took time (1) for him to adapt to his (2) new job of a lab assistant as he (3) knew scarcely nothing about the (4) experiments performed.

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

Directions: Identify the part having an error and mark the suitable option:

(1) Of all the reasons given (2) by the defense, the last (3) two of them were the (4) most absurd.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error and mark the suitable option:

(1) Will you (2) repeat the question (3) again, (4) please?

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error and mark the suitable option:

Lawyers and (1) doctors alike both agree that something (2) should be done about (3) the rise in medical (4) malpractice suits which are on the increase.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

Although thunder and lightning (1) are produced at the same time, light waves travel (2) more fast than sound (3) waves do; so we see the lightning (4) before we hear the thunder.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

During the summer (1) of 1998, the reason for (2) virtually every unusual weather condition, from (3) droughts and heat waves to floods and storms, was said to be (4) caused by El Nino.

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

He (1) has sold his (2) old scooter for (3) worth seven thousand rupees. He goes to office (4) on foot now.

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

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

She (1) did (2) not do (3) her home-work. (4) Didn't she?

  1. (1)
  2. (2)
  3. (3)
  4. (4)
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He
  2. forbade me
  3. not to eat
  4. fatty things
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

She is (1) cleverer than her brother, but not (2) half as studious. (3) Isn’t it? (4)No error.

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

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

Engines used in space shuttles are (1) much larger and (2) much stronger than (3) the one's (4) used in the jets.

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

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

(1) Both Karan (2) as well as Arun (3) are (4) coming tonight.

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

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

Ramesh (1) did (2) not (3) like to help (4) nobody.

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

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