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: Choose the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

Every teacher and every student (1) have their (2) own views (3) about deteriorating relationship (4) between teachers and students. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Change ‘have their’ to ‘has his’. When two singular nouns are joined by ‘and’ and are preceded by ‘each’ or ‘every’, the verb or pronoun must be in singular.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

I have helped (1) the party (2) become victorious in the elections (3) as much as (4) him. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Change ‘him’ to ‘he’. ‘As much as’ is a compound conjunction, not preposition. So, a pronoun is used after a conjunction in nominative case, not in objective case.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

(1) At first she would not let (2) her young son ride the bicycle (3) but he was so demanding (4) that eventually she gave up. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Use ‘gave in’ in place of ‘gave up’ to correct the error of phrasal verb. ‘Give in’ means ‘to yield’ while ‘give up’ means ‘to abandon’.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

(1) A few of the station’s crew watched them (2) go and murmured questions to (3) each other about exactly what (4) had happened. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Change ‘each other’ to ‘one another’. When we speak of two persons, ‘each other’ is used and for more than two persons, ‘one another’ is used.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

(1) A perfectionist is one of (2) those persons who is (3) never satisfied with the work (4) of other people. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Change ‘is’ to ‘are’ to correct the error of subject verb agreement because the relative pronoun ‘who’ refers to ‘those persons’ (subject).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

It (1) makes out that both sides have greater good of the nation in mind, (2) but merely (3) disagree to the means (4) to achieve it. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Replace ‘disagree to’ with ‘disagree about/on/over’. The last part is a prepositional phrase. So, any of the prepositions about/on/over can be used interchangeably. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the numbered part that bears an error of grammar or diction. If there is no error, mark (5) as your answer.

He was (1) one of those victorious (2) candidates (3) who attributed (4) his victory to the people. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Change ‘his’ to ‘their’ because subject is of relative pronoun ‘who’ is ‘candidates’ (plural), so the pronoun in the clause will be according to ‘candidates’ and not 'him'.