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. Take care

  2. of your luggages

  3. quickly

  4. as the train is to arrive soon
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'luggage' in place of 'luggages'. The word ''luggage'' is used in singular form for both singular and plural.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. Both of you

  2. should help

  3. one another

  4. when bad times are there
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'each other' in place of 'one another'. Both is used for two persons and the conjunction ''each other'' is used to refer to two people. ''One another'' is used for more than two.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. When

  2. he was arrested

  3. we had to spend

  4. many a sleepless nights
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'night' in place of nights'. Word ''night'' is used in the singular form for both singular and plural.

Multiple choice

Directions: Identify the part having an error.

  1. All of them

  2. helped each other

  3. when the earthquake

  4. devastated the town
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'one another' in place of 'each other'. Since we are referring to more than two people, we use the conjunction “one another”.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it.The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5) i.e. 'No error'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

  1. Since I was doing

  2. my MBA I initially

  3. chose to specialize

  4. in marketing management

  5. No error

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The fragment 'my MBA I initially' is grammatically incorrect. When using 'Since' to establish background context, the temporal clause needs proper punctuation or conjunction. It should be 'my MBA, I initially' (with comma) or better yet, restructure to 'While doing my MBA, I initially...'

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it.The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5) i.e. 'No error'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

  1. The manager's belief that

  2. Ramesh is

  3. incompetent is not

  4. necessary true

  5. No error

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

'Necessary true' is grammatically incorrect. When modifying 'true', we need the adverb 'necessarily' (necessarily true), not the adjective 'necessary'. This is a clear part-of-speech error in the predicate.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it.The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5) i.e. 'No error'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)

  1. Ashok has managed to

  2. achieve his sales targets

  3. for the quarter very easily

  4. than we expected

  5. No error

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

The comparative structure 'achieve...more easily...than we expected' is disrupted by inserting 'very' before 'easily' in part C. This creates awkward construction: 'very easily than' doesn't flow naturally in comparison. The better phrasing would be 'more easily than we expected' without 'very'.