English Language

Spotting Errors

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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: The sentence below has been divided into three parts (a), (b) and (c). The sentence may have one error. Select the part with error. If there is no error, choose (d) as your answer.

When I visited (a)/ Beijing for Olympics (b)/, I stay in a hotel. (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 parallelism of tense. Correct phrase should be "...I stayed in a hotel". As earlier tense is 'visited', the same should be in the second part of the sentence.

Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence below has been divided into three parts (a), (b) and (c). The sentence may have one error. Select the part with error. If there is no error, choose (d) as your answer.

Due to hepatitis (a)/, he couldn't attend (b)/ to his work. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

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

We don't start the sentence with “Due” correction- “He couldn't attend to his work due to / or because of hepatitis.”