Spotting Errors

A bicycle passed by as I was sleeping under a tree. When something passes away, particularly a person or animal, it means that person or animal has died.

“adjourned” should be replaced by “was adjourned”.

There is no mistake in the given sentence.

Error of usage of relative pronoun. The word “when” should be replaced by “who”.

(d) is the correct answer because there is no mistake in the given sentence.

'One of' should be followed by a plural noun. 'One of my favourite actors...'

(c) is the correct answer because it has an error. 'Manner' refers to style/way in which something is done/conducted. 'Manners' mean behaviour that is considered to be polite in a particular society or culture, which is the correct usage here. 

This is the correct option as this sentence has no grammatical error.

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence has the error. The sentence has subject-verb disagreement between the singular subject (leader) and plural verb (are going). The accompanying phrase only provides extra information and does not alter in any way the grammatical relationship between the subject and the verb.

This part of the sentence has the grammatical error. In the sentence, the subject (Suresh) is in singular form, but the verb (were) is in plural. To make the sentence grammatically correct, the plural verb should be changed to singular verb (was).

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence has the error. In the sentence, ‘’who” has been used. As a rule, ‘which’ is used to refer to other living beings such as animals, insects, plants and objects and “who” is used to refer to human beings, either male or female. Thus, the correct sentence should be, “Which of the following is the largest fish in the world?”

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence has the error. In this sentence, a singular pronoun (everyone) has been used and with a singular pronoun, a plural verb (were) has been used which makes the sentence incorrect. Thus, to make the sentence correct, a singular verb (was) should be used.

This is the correct answer as this part of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. The sentence compares the ‘leadership skills of Mr. Lal’ to ‘Mr. Shyam’ himself, not his leadership skills. In this sentence, adding ‘that of’ in the sentence will make the comparison clear. The correct sentence will be, “The news reader questioned the leadership skills of Mr. Lal compared to that of Mr. Shyam”.

This part of the sentence has the error as here, ‘which’ is used in place of ‘who’. ‘Who’ is used in a non-restrictive clause if the subject is a human being. Otherwise, ‘which’ is used in non-restrictive clauses that tells us something interesting and incidental about a subject, but does not define a subject.

This is the correct option as this part of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. The sentence violates the rule of parallelism. Here, the sentence is incorrect because it displays no consistency whatsoever; the verbs change from ‘with our president’ to ‘our vice-president’ and then back to ‘with our prime minister’. The correct sentence would be, ”During his visit, the American president will have meetings with our president, our vice-president and our prime minister”.