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Error Identification (Mod)

Description: Error Identification (Mod)
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Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. More of the

  2. fun and excitement

  3. in the life comes

  4. from use of your senses

  5. No error

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Replace 'more' by 'much'.  'More' is used in comparing things (there is no comparison here) while much is used before uncountable nouns.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. When his overall performance

  2. has been good

  3. he needs to work harder

  4. on the theoretical concepts.

  5. No error

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Replace 'when' by 'while'. The sentence provides a contrast. 'When' can not be a part of the contrast; 'while' is.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into five parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error.

  1. His immediate task may be to

  2. keep the coalition going

  3. unless he can think of ways

  4. to counter the rebel’s mission now

  5. to demolish the parent party

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The sentence bears the error of subordinating conjunction. ‘Unless’ is a conjunction of condition, while ‘till’ refers to ‘time’. Here, the sentence does not refer to any condition, so use of unless is incorrect.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. No one can say if

  2. the duties are performed

  3. perfunctorily and inadequately,

  4. or scrupulously and successfully.

  5. No error

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Replace the conjunction 'if' by 'whether'. 'If' is used when there is condition and 'whether' is used when there is choice or doubt.

Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

The importance of (1) environment stimuli in the development of coordination (2) between (3) sensory input and motor response varies (4) from species to species. (5) No error

  1. (1)

  2. (2)

  3. (3)

  4. (4)

  5. (5)

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Replace the noun 'environment' by adjective form 'environmental', to go with the noun 'stimuli'.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. The ancient Egyptians, who had made

  2. the Great Sphinx, modelled

  3. the face of the Sphinx

  4. like a woman's and the body like a lion's.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

“… after that of a woman and the body after that of a lion”. Like is used inappropriately as a preposition. It should compare one noun to another instead of modifying the verb. The phrase should indicate that the Egyptians modelled the face of the Sphinx like the face of a woman and not like an entire woman.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. Rice, which still forms

  2. the staple diet of many of

  3. the world's population,

  4. grows best in hot, wet lands

  5. No error

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The reference is to the greater portion of the population and not the greater number. Therefore, 'many' needs to be replaced by 'much'.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. The glass tube

  2. in a fluorescent lamp

  3. contains mercury vapour

  4. under small pressure.

  5. No error

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

How can we associate pressure with the word, 'small'? Pressure can be either high or low.

Directions: In the following sentence, some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.

(A) Not only (B) he is a poet (C) but an artist (D) also. (E) No error.

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The correct usage is 'is he'.

Directions: Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. We threw out

  2. some old furniture

  3. so that the new television set

  4. has enough space.

  5. No error

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Replace 'has enough space', in the present tense, to 'had enough space' in the past. 

Directions: In the following sentence some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.

(A) You act (B) as though (C) you are sad; tell me (D) what is wrong with you? (E) No error.

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The correct usage is 'you were sad'.

Directions: In the following sentence some parts have been underlined and labelled A, B, C and D. Identify the part that contains an error. If there is no error in any part of the sentence, mark your answer as E.

He took up (A) a different attitude (B) than what (C) he used (D) to take. (E) No error.

  1. (A)

  2. (B)

  3. (C)

  4. (D)

  5. (E)

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'From what' should be the right expression.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error select (5).

  1. Fiona made a credible effort

  2. to play on the boy's football team

  3. even though she was ultimately

  4. forced to sit at the bench.

  5. No error

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

One sits at the table but 'on' the bench.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. The action was

  2. where

  3. you did

  4. just or unjust

  5. No Error

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

‘where’ should be replaced with ‘either’.

Directions: The following sentence has been split into four parts. One of the parts may have an error of grammar or syntax. Select the part having the error. If there is no error, select (5).

  1. The light from a firefly is said to be “cold”

  2. because the insect's utilization of the energy

  3. is so efficient that

  4. a little of it is converted into heat.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Error of adjective usage. A little means some, little means next to nothing, which is the sense applied here.

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