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: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Never I have listened

  2. to such beautiful music

  3. as the piece I heard on the radio

  4. last night
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Never have I listened. Whenever a negative word starts the sentence, the helping verb comes before the subject.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. He

  2. explained

  3. why the manufacturing of the goods

  4. have stopped.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct phrase is "of the goods ‘had’ stopped." The tense of the sentence is past and with past simple, past perfect is used for an earlier action.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Surely,

  2. it is not his book,

  3. it is

  4. somebody's else.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

somebody else's. Compounds are generally treated as one word while putting them in the possessive case.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Judge in him

  2. prevailed upon the father

  3. and he

  4. sentenced his son to death.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 'The judge' in him, as against 'the father'. The same person is being referred to.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. I had to do so because I felt

  2. that the safety of my sister - nurses

  3. and female attendants there

  4. were in peril.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'was' in peril. The subject of the clause is a singular one, viz. 'safety'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. I did not wait

  2. even though

  3. he had gone out

  4. before I reached his place.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Replace conjunction 'even though' with conjunction 'because'. Reason is being stated.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Due to

  2. a misunderstanding,

  3. I did not

  4. meet him.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Because of or on account of. 'Due to' must be used only after some form of the verb 'to be'. (e.g. My failure to meet him was due to a misunderstanding).