Common Errors Practice Question and Answer
8 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: Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, then select the option "No error".
And, indeed, there was/ hardly picture in Rome I was unable/ to reattribute to its rightful owner.
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64479f0bcd6ea382cf823335- 1to reattribute to its rightful owner.false
- 2No errorfalse
- 3And, indeed, there wasfalse
- 4hardly picture in Rome I was unabletrue
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Answer : 4. "hardly picture in Rome I was unable"
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
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Answer : 5. "A-D"
Q:Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
The detective compared the forged signature to the original.
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6047114df4cbdc234859695e- 1the forged signaturefalse
- 2to the originaltrue
- 3The detective comparedfalse
- 4No errorfalse
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Answer : 2. "to the original"
Q: He is (A)/ your brother (B)/ isn't it? (C)/ No error (D)
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5f3105ef8fc12265db035625- 1Afalse
- 2Ctrue
- 3Dfalse
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Answer : 2. "C"
Q:Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
Most of the fresh water lake in India are in the Himalayan region.
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60c1f4c7590e633a7d3cc26e- 1Most of thefalse
- 2in Indiafalse
- 3are infalse
- 4freshwater laketrue
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Answer : 4. "freshwater lake"
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
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Answer : 4. "D"
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).
He have started (1) / making a note of (2) / his appointments as (3) / he tends to forget them. (4) / No error (5)
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5da418f4d69109270473a976- 11true
- 22false
- 33false
- 44false
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