You need to spot sentences and error which are grammatically incorrect. This error can be anything.
1. Certain nouns being a singular form represent plurality and therefore, take a plural verb in a sentence.
Example: police, clergy, people, peasantry, cattle.
- Cattle was not grazing in the field (Incorrect)
- Cattle was not grazing in the field (Correct)
2. Certain nouns take the plural verb because of their plural form.
Example: Clothes, Scissors, trousers, amends, spectacles, thanks.
- Some clothes is missing. (Incorrect)
- Some clothes are missing. (Correct)
3. When a noun denoting weight, number, money, length or measure is following a number, the noun form does not change as long as another noun or pronoun follows it.
Example: Million, pair, meter, year, dozen.
- This is a 9-meters scale. (Incorrect)
- This is a 9-meter scale. (Correct)
4. When the pronoun ‘one’ is used, it should be maintained throughout the whole sentence.
- Ram must help his siblings. (Incorrect)
- Ram must help one’s siblings. (Correct)
5. For living people ‘whose’ is generally used and for things that are non-living ‘which’ is used.
- Which phone is kept on charging? (Incorrect)
- Whose phone is kept on charging? (Correct)
6. ‘Fewer’ is used for denoting number while ‘Less’ is used for denoting quantity.
- No less than thirty dogs were. (Incorrect)
- No fewer than thirty dogs were. (Correct)
7. Sentences are always opposite to question tags, for example, if the question tag is positive then the sentence is negative and vice versa.
- It’s a bit early, is it? (Incorrect)
- It’s a bit early, isn’t it? (Correct)
8. Instead of ‘who’ or ‘which’, the relative pronoun ‘that’ is used after adjectives in the superlative degree.
- These are the best which he could get. (Incorrect)
- These are the best that he could get. (Correct)
9. ‘As’ is used both before and after the adjective to show equality.
- He can run as fast, if not faster than her. (Incorrect)
- He can run as fast as, if not faster than her. (Correct)
In each of the following questions, statements are divided into 4 different parts. You have to choose the errors from these statements and mark the options given.
Try Yourself
Try Yourself
Question 1-
He was for all (1) / selling the car (2)/ and buying a bicycle (3)/No error (4)
Try Yourself
Question 2-
Look at what (1) / I am doing (2) and do like I do. (3) / No error (4)
Try Yourself
Question 3-
The doctor asked his patient to regularly take his medicine.
(a) No error
(b) The doctor
(c) asked his patient
(d) to regularly take his medicine
Try Yourself
Question 4-
He looked upon me eye-to-eye for a few moments before he spoke.
(a) No error
(b) before he spoke
(c) He looked upon me
(d) eye-to-eye for a few moments
Try Yourself
Question 5-
The articles suggests that when a person is under unusual stress you should be especially careful to eat a well-balanced diet,
(a) The article suggests that when a person is under unusual stress
(b) you should be especially careful
(c) to eat a well-balanced diet
(d) No error
Try Yourself
Question 6-
I meant to repair the radio but hadn’t time to do it today.
(a) No error
(b) to do it today
(c) I meant to repair to radio
(d) but hadn’t time
Try Yourself
Question 7-
Many a man (a) / have come to India from Bangladesh (b) / to live here permanently. (c) / No error(d)
Try Yourself
Question 8-
Our football team (a) comprises of (b) / eleven skilled players. (c)/ No error (d)
Try Yourself
Question 9-
Knowledge and wisdom makes (a) / an individual truly complete (b)/ and self-assured. (c) / No error (d)
Try Yourself
Question 10-
One of the boys (a) / who always give the correct answer (b)/is Samuel. (c) / No error (d)
Answer Table:-
1 | (a) |
2 | (c) |
3 | (d) |
4 | (c) |
5 | (b) |
6 | (d) |
7 | (b) |
8 | (b) |
9 | (d) |
10 | (b) |