Common Errors Practice Question and Answer
8 Q:Directions: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is No error.
Although the police officer sympathised with poor (1)/ he refused to (2) /take an action against the rich man (3). /No error (4)
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6527b86e9c44d229e70759f0- 11true
- 22false
- 33false
- 44false
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Answer : 1. "1"
Explanation :
the will be used before poor because – the (Def. Art.) is used with Adjectives to refer to a thing or a group of people described by the Adj. Look at the examples given below :
The poor always suffer
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Def. Art. Adj. (refers to a group of people who are poor) He is collecting money for the blind.
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Def. Art.
blind refers to a group of people who are blind.
Q: Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
He was not able to give many time to his research.
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64b77a08568e7ff594b807b9- 1He was not ablefalse
- 2many timetrue
- 3to givefalse
- 4to his researchfalse
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Answer : 2. "many time"
Explanation :
The correct form is "much time" instead of "many time."
Q:In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select No Error.
The priest class took upon itself the monopoly (1)/ of scriptural knowledge and interpretation (2)/ of the same to its own advantage. (3)/ No error (4)
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601807ad580e304323a4d838- 11true
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- 33false
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Answer : 1. "1"
Q: The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
When we got / to the train station, / the Rajdhani Express / had already been leaving.
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6458e0b656b58a4236a96e61- 1the Rajdhani Expressfalse
- 2When we gotfalse
- 3had already been leavingtrue
- 4to the train stationfalse
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Answer : 3. "had already been leaving"
Q:Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.
There be a long queue for entry into the exhibition ground.
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5facf37a657f7635f3da20b7- 1for entry intofalse
- 2There be a long queuetrue
- 3No errorfalse
- 4the exhibition ground.false
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Answer : 2. "There be a long queue"
Q:Directions: In each question given below a sentence is given and is divided into three parts I,II and III. For each part a correction statement is also given, you have to determine which part requires correction and select it as your answer.
Competitive Hindutva has become the name of the game in the ongoing election season/, with the ostensibly secular Congress party trying desperately to/ demonstrate its Hindu credentials to cut from base of Hindu-nationalist BJP.
I. Competitive Hindutva has becoming the name of the game in the ongoing election season
II. with the ostensibly secular Congress party trying desperately to
III. demonstrate its Hindu credentials to cut into the base of Hindu-nationalist BJP
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5e871a98c08cf316ddc8f5acI. Competitive Hindutva has becoming the name of the game in the ongoing election season
II. with the ostensibly secular Congress party trying desperately to
III. demonstrate its Hindu credentials to cut into the base of Hindu-nationalist BJP
- 1IIfalse
- 2II,IIItrue
- 3I,IIIfalse
- 4Ifalse
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 2. "II,III"
Q:The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
All the young boys and girls / in the family / will try his luck / in the card games tonight.
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645a1e50d47721ee2dac253f- 1All the young boys and girlsfalse
- 2in the card games tonightfalse
- 3will try his lucktrue
- 4in the familyfalse
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Answer : 3. "will try his luck"
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’.
Pratik was extremely (a) / happy when he (b) saw his favourite (c) / actor at near the mal. (d)/ No error (e)
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5e6b4896c34ec57f0d12b6b7- 1afalse
- 2bfalse
- 3cfalse
- 4dtrue
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