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Directions: Choose the part having an error:

  1. There are

  2. many a slip

  3. between

  4. the cup and the lip.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Subject-verb agreement. The word "is" must be used.

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The hotel located

  2. on the busy main road

  3. has been attracting tourists

  4. despite of its bare bed facilities.


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. In this book the writer examines

  2. what makes people write memoirs

  3. and what purpose

  4. do these memoirs serve


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

As the sentence is a statement and not a question we will omit the 'do' in part 4.

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The parents concerned

  2. lodged FIR

  3. when they found

  4. their son missing


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The attitude of the authorities concerned

  2. towards the people affected

  3. by the Bhopal gas tragedy

  4. has not been human


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. We must settle

  2. the issues amiably

  3. instead of resorting

  4. to violence


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error.

  1. India should not hesitate

  2. in announcing

  3. its resolution to fight

  4. against this menace tooth and nail


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The correct phrase should be ' to announce'.

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. Many lives could be saved

  2. if the international agencies

  3. had been allowed

  4. an easy access


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. It seems that

  2. all the members of the family

  3. have been murdered

  4. by the same weapon


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. It is our duty

  2. to save our country from

  3. falling a prey

  4. of the whims of our politicians


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The chief minister announced that

  2. more than one lakh students

  3. will be given

  4. scholarships


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. Th firing by the police

  2. was carried out

  3. on the behest of the chief minister,

  4. who is responsible for this carnage


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. Hardly he had stepped

  2. out of the house

  3. when it started

  4. raining


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. Little we know

  2. about our own planet,

  3. not to speak

  4. of other planets


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. I have written

  2. numerous letters

  3. to the concerned authorities

  4. but nothing has been done so far


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Option 3 is where the error lies. There must be a comma (",") at the end because the next part of the sentence begins with the word "but". Whenever you use the word "but" it must be preceded by a comma unless it starts a sentence.

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. So many times I have

  2. entered into a dialogue with him

  3. to resolve the dispute amicably

  4. but to no avail


Correct Option: A

Directions: Choose the part in having an error.

  1. Only a few people

  2. have

  3. availed in

  4. this facility so far


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

...availed of....

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The party workers were busy bursting crackers

  2. and dancing on the beats

  3. of the traditional dhol at the party headquarters

  4. at 11 Ashok Road here on Sunday


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The defeat of the Congress Party

  2. in the Karnataka Assembly elections

  3. shows that the state organisation

  4. was shambles


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Was in shambles.

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The Rajasthan govt has

  2. warned the protesting Gujjars

  3. for commando action

  4. if they do not give up arms


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. 50 percent of the houses

  2. has been damaged

  3. and a large number of people have been

  4. rendered destitute


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. Whatever he did,

  2. he did it

  3. at the spur of moment

  4. to defend himself.


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. Either the employer or the employees

  2. has to bear the losses

  3. if any untoward incident

  4. occurs


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. The bank customers

  2. are advised

  3. to not share their account details

  4. with unknown sources


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the part in which there is an error:

  1. No sooner did they

  2. entered the building

  3. than

  4. the security alarm started ringing


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option 2 contains the error. We cannot use "entered", but must use "enter" instead.

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