English Language

Spotting Errors

4,734 Questions
All Noun, Article, and Determiner Usage 629 Subject-Verb Agreement 529 Preposition and Phrasal Verb Choice 510 Tense and Time Sequence 429 Pronoun Agreement and Case 415 Adjective and Adverb Form 372 Idiom and Confusable Word Choice 367 Verb Complement and Mood 347 Sentence Structure and Modifier Placement 296 Conjunction and Connector Choice 228 Parallel Structure 220 Redundancy and Negation 148

Spotting Errors Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark (a), (b), (c) as anwer. If there as no error mark (d). The amplifier in a radio strengthens the radio waves it receives, (a) / and the speaker changes them back into the original sound waves (b) / going into the microphone in the studio. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of prepositional usage. 'Changing something back to' is the right usage, rather than 'into'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark (a), (b), (c) as anwer. If there as no error mark (d). During the Ottoman rule, Christian Serbs in Kosovo emigrated (a) / and the region was growing (b) / increasingly more populated by Albanians who were largely Muslim. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Error of sentence formation. If the pricipal cluase of the sentence is in past indefinite, the subsidiary clause must also be in the same tense. So, considering the usage of 'emigrated', 'was grown' should be changed into 'grew'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark (a), (b), (c) as anwer. If there as no error mark (d). The banking sector today requires (a) / a lot of technical and administrative (b) / staff to farther expand their operations. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Case of usage of vocabulary. Farther should be used to show a relation to physical distance. Further should be used with abstract distance or depth.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark (a), (b), (c) as anwer. If there is no error mark (d). Investment banking is (a) / as far as the (b) / most coveted job option in banking. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

We never use comparative and superlative degrees together. 'As far as' is comparative degree, and 'the most' is superlative degree. So, delete 'as far as' or replace it with 'by far'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark (a), (b), (c) as anwer. If there as no error mark (d). In yet another attempt to deter people from lighting up in public (a) / and reduce the risk of passive smoking, the Union Health Ministry is planning to penalize (b) / organizations which allow its employees to smoke. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Error of noun-pronoun agreement. 'Organizations' is a plural noun, whereas 'its' is a singular pronoun. So, replace 'its' by 'their'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark (a), (b), (c) as anwer. If there as no error mark (d). If you would have told me (a) / that you were in Mumbai, (b) / I would have certainly contacted you. (c) / No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Error of sentence formation in past perfect tense. If the antecedent is in the present perfect tense, the precedent should be in the past perfect tense. So, 'If you had told me' or 'Had you told me'. Thus, option 1.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (d). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

The country was in a (a) political and economic (b) disarray well before the terrorist attack. (c) No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

There is no error.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (d). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

Besides accidental break-ups, (a) spacecraft interceptions have been (b) a major contributor in the latest past. (c) No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Vocabulary error. It is ‘recent past’ and not ‘latest past.’

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (d). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

They must be able to (a) operate automatically and reach (b) important decisions quickly. (c) No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The word ‘automatically’ is inappropriate. It should be ‘autonomously’, which means ‘independently‘.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (d). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

Before giving the exam, (a) participants must first (b) register as a nurse. (c) No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

It is not ‘giving’, but ‘taking’. Students or participants ‘take’ and not ‘give’ the exam.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (d). (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

Ecuador is a country (a) that is positioning himself (b) as a strong ecotourism destination. (c) No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Ecuador is a name of a country. So, we will use pronoun ‘itself’ instead of ‘himself’.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence may contain an error. You have to find that part of the sentence which contains the error. If there is no error, choose ‘No error’ as your answer.

By the time he gets back from his foreign vacation, the company has appointed another person.

  1. by the time

  2. he gets back

  3. from his foreign vacation

  4. the company has appointed

  5. No error
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It should be: the company will have appointed. We use the future perfect tense to suggest that something will have been done by a certain time in the future.