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Error Identification Practice Test 3 (Grammar)

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

  1. I

  2. do not like

  3. the very glimpse

  4. of theirs

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) of them

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

  1. When

  2. he was arrested

  3. we had to spend

  4. many a sleepless nights

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) 'night' in place of nights'

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

  1. Neither the manager

  2. nor

  3. his staff were present

  4. in the dinner party

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'was' in place of 'were'

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

  1. If I shall go

  2. to the Bazar

  3. I shall bring

  4. some eatables for you

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) Delete 'shall'.           Error of double future.

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

  1. He told

  2. his boss

  3. to pardon him

  4. for what he said

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) 'requested' in place of 'told'

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

  1. He

  2. considers

  3. me as

  4. his sister

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'He considers me his sister'. Verbs like consider, think, call etc. are not followed by 'as'.

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

  1. The wages

  2. of

  3. sin

  4. are death

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) 'is death' 'The wages' is used here in the sense of requital.

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

  1. Either Ganesh

  2. or Ganpat

  3. have committed

  4. this gruesome murder

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'has' in place of 'have'

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

  1. Children often

  2. quarrel

  3. on

  4. petty issues

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'on' should be replaced with 'over'.

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

  1. The cost

  2. of essential commodities

  3. have spiralled

  4. very high

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'has' in place of 'have'

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

  1. The desirability

  2. of closer co-operation

  3. has become

  4. increasingly obvious

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) - for closer co-operation

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

  1. Your house

  2. is superior than

  3. that of mine

  4. in all respects

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'to' in place of 'than'

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

  1. I shall

  2. go on talking

  3. to you

  4. if you like it or not

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) 'whether' in place of 'if'

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

  1. I

  2. enquired of him

  3. that

  4. he would help me

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'whether' in place of 'that'

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

  1. Where

  2. does

  3. this road

  4. lead?

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) Add 'to' after 'lead'.

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

  1. The various consequences of

  2. the decision taken by the

  3. finance ministry was not

  4. foreseen by the bureaucrats

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) It should be 'finance ministry were not'.

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

  1. She need

  2. not to say

  3. how obliging

  4. she feels

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) delete 'to'

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

  1. Surely,

  2. it is not his book,

  3. it is

  4. somebody's else

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) somebody else's. Compounds are generally treated as one word while putting them in the possessive case.

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

  1. They

  2. are all

  3. away

  4. except I

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) except me

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

  1. Mukesh or Rakesh

  2. were

  3. jumping

  4. on the bench

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'were' should be replaced by 'was'.

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

  1. It is necessary

  2. that

  3. the work finishes

  4. before we leave

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) - (that) the work be finished. With words expressing command, necessity and the like the subjunctive form is used. The indicative mood should not be used.

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

  1. Their last day

  2. of Delhi office

  3. is near at hand and they are preparing

  4. to hand over the charge

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2)  'in' in place of 'of'

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

  1. Nothing

  2. but fraud and double dealing

  3. are discernible

  4. in his actions

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) is discernible. The subject of the sentence is 'nothing' and not 'fraud and double-dealing'. Hence 'is' and not 'are'.

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

  1. When I

  2. called at him

  3. yesterday

  4. he was not at home

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'on' in place of 'at'

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

  1. Kalidas

  2. is

  3. Shakespeare

  4. of India

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'Shakespeare' should be replaced by 'The Shakespeare'.

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

  1. Employees must consider

  2. themselves part and parcel

  3. of the industry

  4. in which they work

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) as part and parcel

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

  1. The mother

  2. is expected

  3. to return

  4. from shopping soon

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

(1) delete 'the'

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

  1. He

  2. is said

  3. to go

  4. there

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'Go' should be replaced by 'have gone'.

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

  1. Why did

  2. you not told me

  3. that the meeting

  4. will not be held?

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'tell' in place of 'told'

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

  1. Both of you

  2. should help

  3. one another

  4. when bad times are there

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'each other' in place of 'one another'

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

  1. Sixty

  2. minutes

  3. make

  4. a hour

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) 'A' should be replaced by 'an'.

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

  1. The short story

  2. should not exceed

  3. more than

  4. two hundred words

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'More than' should be deleted. Double comparatives are to be avoided. 'exceed' is sufficient.

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

  1. The farmer and his dog

  2. which

  3. lived here

  4. have died

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'Which' should be replaced by 'that'.

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

  1. Health is

  2. more

  3. preferable

  4. to wealth

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'Health is preferable to wealth'. The adjectives of comparative degree like Senior, Junior, Prefer, Superior are always followed by 'to' instead of 'than'.

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

  1. The steno is never

  2. found

  3. whenever the

  4. judge want him

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

(4) 'wants' in place of 'want'

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

  1. You

  2. look

  3. much handsome

  4. now

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) The adverb 'much' cannot be used here. It should be 'You look very handsome now.'

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

  1. The students

  2. who absent

  3. from the classes

  4. generally cut a sorry figure in the examination

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

(2) 'absent themselves'

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

  1. We should always

  2. prefer poverty

  3. than prosperity

  4. to live with self-respect

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'to' in place of 'than'

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

  1. This small table

  2. will collapse

  3. if you will

  4. stand on it

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) Remove 'will' after 'you'.

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

  1. Abbas

  2. as well as his parents

  3. were expected

  4. to go to Mumbai

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(3) 'was' in place of 'were'

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