Common Errors Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Scientists believe / that many animals have / a unique languages / of their own.
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6411bfcc67ad957a9775d25e- 1that many animals havefalse
- 2Scientists believefalse
- 3a unique languagestrue
- 4of their ownfalse
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Answer : 3. "a unique languages"
Q:Directions (Q .121 - 125 ): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any . grammatical error or idiomatic 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). (Ignore errors of punctuation if any).
His teacher was pleasantly ( 1 ) / surprised when she learned ( 2 ) / that despite the all problems ( 3 ) / he participated . (4) / No error ( 5 )
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5da419b77919e54a8e3d339b- 11false
- 22false
- 33false
- 44true
- 55false
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Answer : 4. "4"
Q:The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.
Four of earliest civilisations / of the world / were located / on the banks of or near large rivers.
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6490315de8d2170cb3c0d6c3- 1or near large riversfalse
- 2of the worldfalse
- 3Four of earliest civilisationstrue
- 4were located on the banks offalse
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Answer : 3. "Four of earliest civilisations"
Explanation :
Explanation: The correct phrasing should be "Four of the earliest civilizations." The error is in the placement of the article "the."
Q:Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
Rashmi and me are/ planning to go on / a road trip to Manali/ next summer.
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5f60585c2eed863f3a808af4- 1Rashmi and me aretrue
- 2planning to go onfalse
- 3a road trip to Manalifalse
- 4next summerfalse
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Answer : 1. "Rashmi and me are"
Q:Directions : In the following question, four sentences are given which may be grammatically and contextually incorrect. You need to find the one which has no error and mark that as your answer. If all the given sentences are incorrect then mark option (e) i.e. ‘all are incorrect’ as your answer.
(a) Mahindra Renewables will sell its entire stake in 3 subsidiaries to CLP India, a part of Hong Kongbased CLP Group, as nearly ₹340 crore.
(b) The agreement will be signed to Doha city between Taliban representatives and U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.
(c) The U.S. intelligence community publicly concluded that Russia intervened in there security matters.
(d) The injured animal was nursed back to health by the zookeeper and then released back into the wild
(e) All are incorrect
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617f9d120f541c337735b126- 1Afalse
- 2Bfalse
- 3Cfalse
- 4Dtrue
- 5Efalse
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Answer : 4. "D"
Q:Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
Among the reasons cited by the employee for quitting the job were the pressure of work, the outstation duties and desiring to pursue her hobbies.
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60485fd8f4cbdc23485d96d9- 1Among the reasons cited by the employeefalse
- 2and desiring to pursue her hobbiestrue
- 3No errorfalse
- 4were the pressure of work, the outstation dutiesfalse
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Answer : 2. "and desiring to pursue her hobbies"
Q:Directions : In each of the following questions a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence is given with four words given in bold in each. Which of the following words should replace each other to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. The meaning can be different from the one in question.
The tsunami of 2004 and the (A) threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean provided India an (B)opportunity to test its new posture. Everybody was (C)grateful, but it made no difference to India’s claim to (D)permanent membership.
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5fd07f73c46a213fc5b8350b- 1No interchange possiblefalse
- 2A-Bfalse
- 3B-Cfalse
- 4B-Dfalse
- 5A-Dtrue
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Answer : 5. "A-D"
Q:In the following sentence found out whether there is any error in any part of the sentence. If there is error mark your answer letter corresponding to that part a,b,c or d.If there is no error mark your answer ‘e’.
Vanita managed to (a) / answers all the questions (b) / whereas her friend could (c) answer only a few(d)/ No error (e)
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5e6b491d8fcee56af20259e4- 1afalse
- 2btrue
- 3cfalse
- 4dfalse
- 5efalse
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