Spotting Errors Questions

Multiple choice
  1. China announced

  2. that it will set up

  3. it’s first

  4. military base abroad

  5. in the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles

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

‘Its’ should be used.

Multiple choice
  1. Raising issues outside

  2. the parliament show

  3. opposition’s double standard

  4. which is

  5. not acceptable

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

'Shows' should replace 'show'.

Multiple choice
  1. Hundreds of farmers

  2. marched to inter-state check post

  3. where a large group of police

  4. from both the states

  5. prevented it from entering Maharashtra

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

'Them' should replace 'it'.

Multiple choice
  1. Scientists are exploring.

  2. the possibilities of

  3. providing oxygen

  4. for future inhabitants

  5. of space stations

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

'Possibility' should be used.

Multiple choice
  1. Only corrupts support

  2. weaker Lokpal law

  3. to save their wealth inside

  4. and outside India and protect

  5. them from law and jail

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

‘Themselves’ should replace ‘them’.

Multiple choice
  1. He has demanded the

  2. court that he

  3. should be permitting

  4. for separate cooking

  5. in the jail

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

'Should be permitted' is to be used when 'that' is used as a conjunction.

Multiple choice
  1. Prior to the examination

  2. the instructor had told us

  3. to keep an eye

  4. on the time to

  5. write clearly and no cheating

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

‘Not to cheat’ should replace “no cheating".

Multiple choice
  1. Though the morning

  2. began in fog

  3. the sun

  4. was out as

  5. the day progressed

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

'Began with' should be used to indicate the starting of something.

Multiple choice
  1. The agency has

  2. for long planning to

  3. file the charge sheet

  4. but the decision

  5. was delayed

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

After ’long’, ‘been’ should come.

Multiple choice
  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)

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

Change 'he' to 'him' to correct the error of the pronoun. A pronoun which comes after a preposition is put in objective case.