Error correction - common mistakes in English

Error correction - common mistakes in English ,error detection in english

20 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A friend can bare his feelings to you and will support you ... unconditionally.

  1. -
  2. so
  3. how
  4. such
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

You may ... an occasional coffee.

  1. have been taken
  2. took
  3. have taken
  4. taking
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is a true friend? In ... reality there are very few about.

  1. the
  2. a
  3. -
  4. an
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Even in adulthood ... still the yearning to escape other worlds.

  1. theres
  2. theirs
  3. there's
  4. their's
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For the romantic, the hero ... finds his soulmate.

  1. inevatible
  2. inevitably
  3. innevitably
  4. innevitable
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

It is evident that ... is a strong link to that childhoood innocence.

  1. there
  2. they're
  3. their
  4. thair
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

People are locked in the .................... of daily routine.

  1. boring
  2. bored
  3. boredom
  4. boringness
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

This happiness is ... cut short ... Joy finally succumbs to her illness and dies.

  1. tragically/when
  2. tragic/when
  3. tragicaly/when
  4. tragically/while
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

He enters into a marriage of convenience in order to enable her to stay ... England.

  1. on
  2. in
  3. to
  4. at
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Joy ... Lewis in Oxford and falls in love with the crusty old man.

  1. was visiting
  2. visited
  3. visits
  4. visit
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The princesses have ... film idols.

  1. becaming
  2. became
  3. bacon
  4. become
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Through fiction, ... learn to face the reality of school life including the pressure of exams.

  1. adolescent
  2. adollescents
  3. adolescants
  4. adolescents
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

They have managed some ... in the past

  1. crisises
  2. crises
  3. crisis
  4. crisses
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I regret ... you that your application has been denied.

  1. informing
  2. to infirm
  3. informed
  4. to inform
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Lucy stopped ... at 8pm last night.

  1. working
  2. to work
  3. work
  4. worked
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I do not know why you didn't go. If I were in your shoes, I ... have gone.

  1. would
  2. will
  3. should
  4. wish
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Children's worlds are filled with the ... places which are found in fairy stories and children's fiction

  1. imaginarly
  2. imaginary
  3. imaginar
  4. imagination
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

I tried to explain...

  1. him the problem
  2. problem to him
  3. the problem to him
  4. he the problem
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The need to watch escapist movies has ... origins in childhood.

  1. its
  2. it's
  3. it
  4. it is