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: The sentence below is divided into three parts (A), (B) and (C). Find out which part of the sentence has an error. If there is no error, then choose (D) as your answer.

It (A) was not until he (B) spoke to me that I (C) came to know of the real facts. (D) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Replace “spoke” with “had spoken”. The antecedent in time of simple past tense (came to know) is past perfect tense.

Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence below is divided into three parts (A), (B) and (C). Find out which part of the sentence has an error. If there is no error, then choose (D) as your answer.

We (A) are expecting you to visit us, but you (B) could not (C) make it. (D) No error

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Replace “are expecting” with “had expected”. The antecedent in time of simple past tense (could not) is past perfect tense.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of the sentence which has an error. If there is no error select (d) as your answer.

A group of friends (a) / want to visit (b) / the new plant as early as possible. (c) / No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Case of subject-verb agreement. Here the subject is singular i.e. a group of friends. 'A group' being a singular collective noun demands singular auxilary verb with it. So, 'want' should be replaced with 'wants'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Find the part of the sentence which has an error. If there is no error select (d) as your answer.

The duties of a police man are regulating the traffic, (a) / investigating crime (b) / and to contain anti-social elements. (c) / No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Case of parallelism. Parallelism says that all the parts of a sentence should follow a single pattern. Considering this, 'regulating' and 'investigating' need to be followed by 'containing', and not by 'to contain'.