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: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5)

(1) Although logical explanations sound quite laborious when written out, (2) the human mind is capable (3) to process the arguments very quickly (4) to arrive at a logical conclusion. (5) No error

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4

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

Human mind is 'capable of' (followed by a gerund - processing).

Multiple choice

Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5)

(1) The police couldn’t control (2) the mob so (3) troops were (4) called on. (5) No error

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4

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

 Change ‘called on’ to ‘called out’ to correct the error of phrasal verb. ‘Call on’ is to pay a short visit whereas called out is ‘to summon’. Hence, option 4 is correct.