Spotting Errors - English Questions and Answers

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(Q1) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The success of our efforts
  2. depend upon the
  3. number of people who
  4. actually use the new methods.
  5. No error.
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depends upon the

(Q2) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. I will put on
  2. a note in this regard
  3. for your consideration
  4. and necessary decision.
  5. No error.
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I will put up

(Q3) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. By arresting the local criminals
  2. and encouraging good people
  3. we can end
  4. hostilities of that area.
  5. No error.
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we can bring to end

(Q4) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Schools in that area which
  2. had English as a
  3. medium of instruction
  4. as the majority there spoke English.
  5. No error.
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Schools in that area

(Q5) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. I have had to work
  2. at the fountain for almost
  3. ten hours before it could
  4. start functioning well.
  5. No error.
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I had to work

(Q6) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. We admired the way
  2. he had completed all his work
  3. and appreciating the method
  4. adopted by him.
  5. No error.
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and appreciated the method

(Q7) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Had I come
  2. to know about
  3. his difficulties
  4. would have certainly helped.
  5. No error.
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would certainly have helped him

(Q8) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Whatever he was
  2. today is only because
  3. of his mother who
  4. was a renowned scientist.
  5. No error.
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Whatever he is

(Q9) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. No girl
  2. in her troupe is
  3. so sprightly as
  4. your daughter.
  5. No error.
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as sprightly as

(Q10) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The Trust has succeeded
  2. admirably in raising
  3. money for
  4. its future programmes.
  5. No error.
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(Q11) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The committee is thankful to Shri Desai
  2. for preparing not only the main report
  3. but also for preparing
  4. the agenda notes and minutes.
  5. No error.
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but also

(Q12) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Motivating employees with
  2. traditional authority and financial
  3. incentives have become
  4. increasingly difficult.
  5. No error.
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incentives has become

(Q13) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. We have observed that
  2. many good programmes
  3. suffer of shortage
  4. of funds and other resources.
  5. Error.
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suffer for shortage

(Q14) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. If the teacher
  2. is good the students
  3. will respond
  4. positively to them.
  5. No error.
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positively to him

(Q15) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The apparently obvious solutions
  2. to most of his problems
  3. were overlook by
  4. many of his friends.
  5. No error.
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were overlooked by

(Q16) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Such
  2. rules do not
  3. apply to
  4. you and I
  5. No error.
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you and me

(Q17) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Do not trouble
  2. yourself about writing to me
  3. unless you are quite
  4. in the humour for it.
  5. No error.
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in the mood for it

(Q18) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Scarcely had I
  2. finished washing the car
  3. than the master came
  4. and asked me to clean the floor of the house.
  5. No error.
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when the master came

(Q19) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The Head of the Department
  2. advised all the staff
  3. to not to
  4. indulge in gossip.
  5. No error.
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not to

(Q20) English » Spotting Errors

Read each 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 letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. As it was Ramesh's
  2. first interview he dressed him
  3. in his most
  4. formal suit.
  5. No error.
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first interview he dressed himself