English Grammar and Sentence Correction

Directions: In the following sentence some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.

(A) The choice is between glorious death (B) or shameful life, which (C) means doing mean acts (D) through out life. (E) No error.

Directions: In the following sentence some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.

(A) Not only I, but (B) all other women think (C) it to be something (D) that should not have happened. (E) No error.

Directions: In the following sentence some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.

I am (A) anxious not only to (B) buy a car but also (C) eager to have a house (D) at the earliest. (E) No error.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The secret of the deep reasonableness of such selections by the senses
(B) lie hidden in the very nature of number itself,
(C) for number is the invisible thread on which
(D) the worlds are strung - the universe abstractly symbolized.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) Yet the common herd, including the herd of writers,
(B) is perpetually falling into this shallow mistake.
(C). I have been awake for so long; I must rush home to catch sleep.
(D) He is not a man of many words, but he is true to his words.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives,
(B) has been steadily gaining adherence from the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of this subject.
(C) No matter what part of the world and no matter what kind of political or economic system,
(D) the expansion of the cities are more than apparent wherever you look.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) Irrespective of how many trinkets and gimcracks the manufacturing and processing industries make, this cannot be called production;
(B) we must in fact regard this as the consumption of resources and energy.
(C) The functions of the Earth - to give life to the plants and animals, regulate the rainwater, purify waste and to return it to the soil
(D) -- may be said to form the main artery of Nature's cyclical function.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The company is investigating a case where a curious passenger
(B) had brought a sub-way train to a halt by pulling the emergency brake in one carriage,
(C) thus putting all the passengers to risk because the doors of the train opened easily
(D) during the emergency stop and passengers could be jostled out of the moving carriage.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) Older adults who take the most popular class of anti-depressant drugs
(B) worsen their risk of developing fragile bones,
(C) the risk held true even after taking into account
(D) the most elderly subjects' reduced bone mineral density and higher risk of sustaining falls.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The core issue is to have an institutional mechanism in place
(B) to handle the plethora of complaints,
(C) redress grievances that might help build resistance
(D) between the populace and to review the regulations from time to time.

Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.

(A) The car runs quieter when I add a more heavy transmission fluid.
(B) John maintained that his scholastic record was better than or at least as good as hers.
(C) A speaker's physical impact including gestures, facial expression and body carriage is as important as listening to the message.
(D) Your courage is as great as that of any other man in defending your country.

Directions: Out of the answer options given below, select the sentences that make coherent sense grammatically as well as thematically.

A. The cat sprang at the bird who was unable to escape and seized it in fierce grip.
B. We in our innocence began to wonder at what it meant.
C. Man is the only animal, he says, which can appreciate humour.
D. We often speak of uncle - the most modest of men, so gentle and unassuming.