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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The scientist must follow
  2. his hunches and his data
  3. wherever it may lead.
  4. No error.
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Solution

'whenever they may lead'

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Each one of the boys
  2. have paid
  3. the tuition-fee.
  4. No error.
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Solution

has paid

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. A large scale exchange of nuclear weapons
  2. will produce unprecedented amounts of radiation
  3. that can penetrate into the biological tissue.
  4. No error.
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Solution

that can penetrate the biological tissue

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Had I
  2. known it earlier
  3. I would contact you.
  4. No error.
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I would have contacted you

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. He asked me
  2. why did I call
  3. him a rogue.
  4. No error.
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Solution

why I called

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Were you
  2. given a choice
  3. or you had to do it?
  4. No error.
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Solution

Had you been

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The person which was
  2. recommended for the position
  3. did not fulfil the prescribed qualifications.
  4. No error.
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Solution

The person who was

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. What does Professor Dhavan
  2. spend so many hours
  3. in the laboratory?
  4. No error.
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why does Professor Dhavan

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. The presumption that the average investor does not understand
  2. or take interest in the affairs of the company
  3. is not correct.
  4. No error.
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(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Shanghai is
  2. bigger than any city
  3. of the world
  4. No error.
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Solution

bigger than any other city

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Sheela has scored a first class
  2. in her final exams,
  3. isn't it?
  4. No error.
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Solution

hasn't she

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. At the moment the house
  2. was burgled the family
  3. attended a night party in the neighbourhood.
  4. No error.
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Solution

The moment the house

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Scarcely had
  2. I arrived than
  3. the train left.
  4. No error.
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Solution

'I arrived when'

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Though he stoutly persisted in denying his involvement in the case,
  2. the facts made it very clear
  3. that he had hand in the cruel murder of his wife.
  4. No error.
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Solution

that he had involved in the cruel murder of his wife.

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. One of my favourite actor
  2. is acting
  3. in this play also.
  4. No error.
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Solution

one of my favourite actors

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Emphasis on equality of life ensures
  2. for the health and happiness
  3. of every individual.
  4. No error.
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Solution

the health and happiness

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. There was very heavy rain last night,
  2. and the rivers have overflown their banks
  3. causing severe hardship to the people living by them.
  4. No error.
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Solution

and the rivers have overflowed their banks

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Every motorist knows
  2. road signs---whether symbols or colour codes--- have an immediacy
  3. that neither the spoken nor the written word can match.
  4. No error.
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(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Supposing if
  2. there is no bus.
  3. how will you get there?
  4. No error.
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Solution

if

(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 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

  1. Because of the emergency help
  2. that the patient received
  3. he would have died
  4. No error.
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Solution

But for emergency help