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 having an error.

  1. A deal between the

  2. European Union and the U.S. on agriculture,

  3. so close to the Cancun conference, is

  4. both good as well as bad for the other members of the WTO.

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

‘Both’ and ‘as well as’ cannot be used together.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. It is perhaps unfair to expect the Finance Ministry report,

  2. the first quarter review mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility

  3. and Management Act, to forecast

  4. the shape of the economic recovery

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

‘Quarterly review’

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice (E). In choosing answers follow the requirements of standard written English.

This is (A) the same (B) incident that (C) I have witnessed (E) yesterday. (E) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This part of sentence has tense error. Present perfect tense is never used with adverbs of past 

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice (E). In choosing answers follow the requirements of standard written English.

We no longer imagine that the history of our institutions (A) has less (B) relevance than our wars, (C) nor that the annals of the humbler classes are irrelevant (D) in those of the privileged orders. (E) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Replace preposition 'in' by 'to'. 'Relevance than' conveys a comparison, 'relevance to' conveys importance of relation.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select choice (E). In choosing answers follow the requirements of standard written English.

Workmen were (A) allowed into (B) prison (C) to repair (D) some damaged cells. (E) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

There is an error of article in this part of the sentence. Use definite article 'the' before prison. Workers were allowed into a particular prison for some work. Whenever we talk about a particular noun we use 'the' before it.