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 has three underlined words or phrases. The three underlined parts of the sentence are marked (1), (2) and (3). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. If the sentence needs no change, select (4) as your answer.

(1) Although we are free (2) for the last forty-five years or so (3) yet we continue to be economically backward. (4) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Case of present perfect tense in passive voice. Replace 'are free' by ‘have been free’. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Why did

  2. you not told me

  3. that the meeting

  4. will not be held?
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Replace ‘told’ by 'tell'. The sentence is past indefinite tense and thus we must use tell rather than told.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Women

  2. always

  3. works

  4. hard.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

'works' should be replaced by 'work'. Subject-Verb agreement. Subject is plural (women). So, plural verb (work) should be used.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. He

  2. is called

  3. with

  4. different names.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

'with' should be replaced by 'by'. Incorrect preposition is used. ”With” is used to refer to “the help of something”.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. Nitin

  2. asked me

  3. where

  4. I am going.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

'am' should be replaced by 'was'. The sentence starts in the past tense so it should end also in the same tense to maintain the parallelism.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part with an error.

  1. The farmer and his dog

  2. which

  3. lived here

  4. have died.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

'which' should be replaced by 'that'. When both living and non-living nouns are used, we use the relative pronoun “that”.