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. Senior colleagues of the college

  2. often hope that

  3. they will be well acquainted

  4. with the affairs of their junior colleagues
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

‘they are’ in place of ‘they will be’. Since present tense is used so avoid using the verb in the future tense. The second option cannot be changed to future tense because we avoid using double future in a sentence.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. I have no allusions

  2. as to my capacity

  3. to grab that

  4. coveted job
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

‘illusions’ in place of ‘allusions’. Incorrect word usage has been done. ”illusion” means a false idea or conception; belief or opinion not in accord with the facts whereas “allusion” means a suggestion. First sense is being conveyed in the sentence so “illusion” should be used.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. One can travel

  2. in a carrier

  3. that far

  4. but no further
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

‘farther’ in place of ‘further’. Incorrect word usage has been done. The word “farther” means more distant or remote The comparative form of “far” is “farther”.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. One

  2. does not plot

  3. intrigues against

  4. his own family
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

‘ones’ in place of ‘his’. When the pronoun “one” is used in the previous part of the clause then it’s possessive pronoun “one’s” should be used and not “his/her”.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. He bound

  2. the thief

  3. to a post

  4. by a strong rope
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

‘with’ in place of ‘by’. ”By” is used for a person whereas "with" conveys the sense of the help of something. Here the second sense is being conveyed.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Such

  2. wealth that

  3. he earned he spent on

  4. drinks and hoteling
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

‘as’ in place of ‘that’. Relative pronoun “as” should be used in place of that when “such” comes in the previous clause.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the part of the following sentence in which there is a grammatical error.

There was tears (a) in her eyes (b) when she went on the stage (c) to receive the prize. (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

There was tears incorrectly uses the singular verb was with the plural subject tears. The correct form should be There were tears, as tears is plural and requires the plural verb were. This is a subject-verb agreement error with the expletive there.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the part of the following sentence in which there is a grammatical error.

(a) One could (b) easily see the kind of respect and (c) popular he enjoys. (d) No error

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option (c) is incorrect and in the phrase "the kind of...", the word "popular" must be changed to "popularity" as "respect" in the case is used as a noun. Therefore, to maintain parallelism, the noun for popular should be used.