Spotting Errors Questions

Multiple choice
  1. My grandparents who are visiting the USA now are also planning to go California, New York and Washington.

  2. My grandparents who are traveling in the USA are planning to travel to California, New York and Washington to as well.

  3. My grand parents, who are travelling in the USA also plan to visit California, New York and Washington

  4. My grand parents who were travelling in the USA are also planning to visit California NewYork and Washington.

  5. My grandparents who are traveling in the USA, Now, are also planning to visit California and New York and Washington.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (E) is the repetition of the question hence it can be eliminated directly. Option (D) has a wrong tense usage, (A) and (B) have excess words usage hence (C) is the answer.

Multiple choice
  1. Daily, the 46 elephants together eat 2 tons of lay, 25 bushels of oats and 300 pounds of bran.

  2. Together, the 46 elephants eat daily 25 bushels of oats and 300 pounds of bran.

  3. Together, the 46 elephants, daily eat 2 tons of hay, 25 bushels of oats and 300 pounds of bran.

  4. The 46 elephants together eat 2 tons of hay, 25 bushels of oats and 300 pounds of bran,daily.

  5. The 46 elephants, daily, eat together 2 tons of hay, 25 bushels of oat and 300 pounds of bran.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (D) is incomplete and (E) is almost a repetition of the question. Option (A) and (B) need to be rearranged; hence (C) is the correct option.

Multiple choice
  1. To keep the elephants in good physical condition the keeper trims their tusks with a hacksaw every three years and oils their hides once a year so that their skin won't crack.

  2. To keep the elephants in good physical conditions the keeper trims their tusks once in three years with a hacksaw and puts oil on their hides once a year to avoid its cracking.

  3. The keeper trims the tusks once in three years and oils their hides once a year to that the skin won't crack to keep the elephants in good physical condition.

  4. For keeping the elephants in good physical condition the keeper trimmed their tusks once every three years and oiled the hides so that they won't crack.

  5. Trimming of tusks with hacksaw and oiling of hides to avoid them from cracking is done by the keeper to keep elephants in good physical conditions.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is correct. Options (B), (C), (D) and (E) have wrong subject, tense and verb usage.

Multiple choice
  1. Blind people depends on, is connected in some way with its hearing.

  2. Blind people depends on its connected in little way with its hearing.

  3. Blind people depend on is connected in some way with its hearing.

  4. Blind people depend on is connected in some way they its heaving.

  5. Blind people depend on is connected in some way with their hearing.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

'depends' is to be changed to depend and 'little' is to be replaced by 'some' and 'its' is a wrong preposition use and has to be substituted with their. Hence (E) is the answer. 

Multiple choice
  1. Is so much so is definite and clear cut that

  2. Is definite and so much so clear cut that

  3. Is so definite and clear cut.

  4. Is very definite and clear cut.

  5. is very clear cut and so definite.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

options (A) and (B) are totally incorrect options (D) might seem correct, but the sentence is comparing the characters of readers hence 'very' cannot be used. Option (E) also might be correct but has more words usage and stress is laid on definite than option (C). Hence (C) is the answer. 

Multiple choice
  1. It originated at the Nurn-berg trials of German war criminals.

  2. and it originated at the Nurn-berg trials of German war criminals.

  3. they originated at the Nurn-berg trials of German war criminals.

  4. although it generated at the Nurn-berg trials of Germany war criminals.

  5. and it originated in the Nurn-berg trials of Germany's war criminals.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 Option (C) and (D) change the meaning of the sentence hence they are wrong. Option (E) also subtly changes the meaning; hence option (B) is correct. 

Multiple choice
  1. Plights of migrant farm workers, who labour in the vast agricultural fields of America's southern states, historically has been a difficult one.

  2. Plights of migrant farm workers, who, historically labors in the vast agricultural fields of Americas southern states, has been a difficult one.

  3. Historically the plight of migrant farm workers who labor in vast agricultural fields have been a difficult one.

  4. Historically, the plight of migrant farm workers, whose labor in vast agricultural fields of America's southern states has been a difficult one

  5. Historically, the plight of migrant farm workers who labor on vast agricultural fields of America's southern states has been a difficult one.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The incorrect use of 'whose' and 'have' and (D) and (C) option make them incorrect. Option (B) has a wrong phrasing. Hence (E) is correct.

Multiple choice
  1. Has become important as a consideration for many countries.

  2. Has become importance as a consideration for many countries.

  3. Has become an important consideration for many countries.

  4. Is the consideration of important for many countries.

  5. Has become the importance considering the many countries.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

use of 'an' before importance and rephrasing is required in the question. Hence (A), (B), (D) and (E) are all incorrect; (C) is the answer.

Multiple choice
  1. All animal life on the planet Earth depends on a sufficient.

  2. Whole animal life on the planet Earth depend as a sufficient.

  3. Complete animal life on the planet Earth depends for a sufficient.

  4. On the planet Earth, whole animal life depends for sufficient.

  5. All animal life depends on planet Earth on a sufficient.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 The original sentence has nothing wrong in it.

Multiple choice
  1. Once, delivering the mails in small villages in India was a difficult, perilous and exciting job.

  2. Delivering the mails once in small villages in India was a difficult, perilous and exciting job.

  3. Delivering mails to small villages in India was once a difficult perilous and exciting job.

  4. Delivering mail to small villages in India was once a difficult perilous and exciting job.

  5. Delivering the mail to small villages in India was once a difficult, perilous and exciting job.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The main error is usage of word mails where by 'mail' is to be used in plural form always. Options (A), (B) and (C) are incorrect. Options (D) and (E) may both seem correct, but option (E) is wrong because of the usage of 'the' which is not necessary. Hence, (D) is the answer.

Multiple choice
  1. Helped to dispel superstitions and primitive ideas about Thunder.

  2. Helping to dispelling superstitions about thunder.

  3. Helped, dispelled superstitions and primitive ideas about thunder

  4. Helping to dispel superstition and primitive ideas about thunder.

  5. Helped dispel superstitions and primitive ideas about thunder.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 (B), (C) and (D) have a wrong structure formation as regarding tense formations. Option (E) is just a repetition, hence (A) is the answer.

Multiple choice
  1. to hold off the angry dog enough long.

  2. Enough long to hold off the angry dog

  3. to hold of the angry dog long enough

  4. to hold off the angry dog long enough.

  5. the angry dog enough long to hold off

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The correct phrase usage is 'long enough'.  Hence A, B are wrong. Awkward phrasing is done in E.  C makes use of incorrect preposition 'of'.  Hence, D is the best option.

Multiple choice
  1. The Indian ship

  2. laden with

  3. cargo drowned

  4. in the Indian Ocean.

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A ship sinks and doesn't drown. So, the correct word is sank as the sentence refers to the past.

Multiple choice
  1. We are going

  2. for a picnic as

  3. the whether is

  4. very pleasant.

  5. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

There is an error in option 3. The word ‘whether’ is used to express choice between alternatives, whereas the sentence refers to ‘weather’ which means state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness.

Multiple choice
  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence structure has 'None of them has completed' (singular subject 'None') followed by 'their work' (plural pronoun). In formal grammar, 'None' is singular and should agree with a singular pronoun like 'his' or 'her work'. The error is in part (c) for pronoun-antecedent disagreement.