Spotting Errors

Directions: The sentence below is underlined or has an underlined part. The underlined part may have an error of grammar or syntax. There are five options that seek to correct the error (including an option that simply repeats the sentence). Select the option that best replaces the underlined part.

Of the many decisions facing the energy commission as it meets to decide on new directions for the 21^st century, the question of the future of nuclear energy is for certain more perplexing.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The secret of the deep reasonableness of such selections by the senses (B) lie hidden in the very nature of number itself, (C) for number is the invisible thread on which (D) the worlds are strung - the universe abstractly symbolized.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) Yet the common herd, including the herd of writers, (B) is perpetually falling into this shallow mistake. (C). I have been awake for so long; I must rush home to catch sleep. (D) He is not a man of many words, but he is true to his words.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives, (B) has been steadily gaining adherence from the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of this subject. (C) No matter what part of the world and no matter what kind of political or economic system, (D) the expansion of the cities are more than apparent wherever you look.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) Irrespective of how many trinkets and gimcracks the manufacturing and processing industries make, this cannot be called production; (B) we must in fact regard this as the consumption of resources and energy. (C) The functions of the Earth - to give life to the plants and animals, regulate the rainwater, purify waste and to return it to the soil (D) -- may be said to form the main artery of Nature's cyclical function.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The company is investigating a case where a curious passenger (B) had brought a sub-way train to a halt by pulling the emergency brake in one carriage, (C) thus putting all the passengers to risk because the doors of the train opened easily (D) during the emergency stop and passengers could be jostled out of the moving carriage.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) Older adults who take the most popular class of anti-depressant drugs (B) worsen their risk of developing fragile bones, (C) the risk held true even after taking into account (D) the most elderly subjects' reduced bone mineral density and higher risk of sustaining falls.

Direction: Choose the statement(s) or part(s) thereof that has/have an error of grammar or syntax.

(A) The core issue is to have an institutional mechanism in place (B) to handle the plethora of complaints, (C) redress grievances that might help build resistance (D) between the populace and to review the regulations from time to time.