Spotting Errors Questions

Multiple choice
  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)

  5. (e)

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A Correct answer
Explanation

If he drops in or in case he drops in: Words conveying the same meaning should not be used together. Both “incase” and “if” refer to condition, so one should be used.

Multiple choice
  1. Those familiar with the aura

  2. of the historic buildings

  3. cannot feel that the aggressive bulk of the

  4. ill-conceived modern edifice

  5. is a crude invasion.

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

Flow of the argument is that they ‘feel’. Add ‘but’ after ‘cannot’. A contradiction of 'aura' and 'ill-conceived' is presented. So, 'but' is required to present the contradiction which is felt.

Multiple choice
  1. Being themselves ignorant and

  2. without having studied physiology, even in its rudiments,

  3. they do not appear to consider that

  4. they should at least abstain from teaching others

  5. till they have got something certain for themselves

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

Error of parallelism. Part (1) uses adjective 'ignorant'; part (2) verb 'having studied'. Use, an adjective, say, 'unschooled' in physiology.

Multiple choice
  1. Among different languages, even if we cannot suspect the least connection or communication,

  2. it is found that the words, expressive of ideas, the most compounded,

  3. do yet nearly correspond to each other:

  4. a certain proof that the simple ideas, comprehended in the compound ones,

  5. were bound together by some universal principle, which had an equal influence on all mankind

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

Error of correlative conjunction. 'Yet' in (3) should be preceded by 'though' in place of 'if' in (1).

Multiple choice
  1. The inhabitants, not contented with the national gods,

  2. made each to himself one or more gods,

  3. which he supposed presided exclusively over his own household,

  4. from whom he supposed he derived his own peculiar happiness,

  5. from whom he attributed all his domestic misfortunes

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

'To whom he attributed'

Multiple choice
  1. In order to think correctly it is necessary to consider

  2. the whole of numeration, computation, and mathematical processes,

  3. as the division of the unit,

  4. into its component parts and

  5. the establishment of relations between these parts

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

The number of parts is not known. The preferred use will, therefore, be 'among these parts'.

Multiple choice
  1. The capillaries of the part adjacent to the wound

  2. began to throw out minute buds and fine processes,

  3. which bridge the gap

  4. and form a firmer, but still temporary,

  5. connection between the two sides

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

Parts (3) and (4) are in present tense. Why should (2) be in the past tense?