18 January 2014

English - Error Detection

Some of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error.
1.The assassin was convicted / and ordered to be hung / even though the defence lawyer handled the case efficiently. / No error.
2.Being unable to / cope up with the syllabus / he discontinued the course. / No error
3.If I was told earlier / I would have certainly helped you. / No error.
4.Alms / are given / to the poors. / No error
5.Mrs. Pratap, being a good teacher, / she is selected / for the National Award . / No error.
6.We have to / insure that members / fulfil the requirements. / No error.
7.No sooner did the teacher /enter the class / when the students stood up. / No error.
8. The type of qualities you acquire / depend upon your company / and so you associate yourselves with simple and good natured people./ No error.
9.The earth's atmosphere / comprises of numerous gases. / No error.
10.He / takes pain/ over his work./ No error.
11.None of the diplomats at the conference / was able either to comprehend / or solve the problem. / No error.
12.The whole block of flats / including two shops / was destroyed in fire. / No error.
13.They were having / a birthday party at home / next week / No error.
14.The inaugural function / is temporarily interrupted / as the lights suddenly went out ./No error.
15.He always practises / the justice and cares / for moral principles. / No error.
16.His assistants have / and are still doing / excellent work for the organisation. / No error.
17.Thanks to medical research / our lives have become / healthier and long. / No error.
18.The first task is provided / sufficient arable land / to the disposssessed farmers. / No error.
19.Paper should be / recycle / if possible / No error.
20.No sooner did he see / the traffic policeman / he wore seat belt / No error.
21.He walked / ten miles / by foot. / No error.
22.He is good / in mathematics / but his friend isn't. / No error.
23.By noon / the fog cleared / completely. / No error.
24.Ahmed has been watching / the Oscar nominated film / three times. / No error.
25.The police / has arrested him / on the charge of theft. / No error.
26.The period / between 1991 to 1995 / was very significant in my life. / No error.
27.Both me  / and my sister / went to a boarding school. / No error.
28.Time and tide / wait / for no man . / No error.
29.Christina's friends / preferred her remedies / over the doctor's. / No error.
30.Those who are in power / have to be sensitive of / the sufferings of the poor. / No error.
31.Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained / when he heard the cries of windows / being burnt on their husband's pyres. / No error.
32.Neither of these dresses / give you / that great look. / No error.
33.If he went to Agra, / he would have seen / the Taj Mahal. / No error.
34.There is / a silver lining / on every cloud. / No error.
35.As he is honest / and he is / liked by all . / No error.
36.An Italian artist and inventor / Leonardo da Vinci was / the left-handed. / No error.
37.I am the one / who am / to be lamed. / No error.
38.Our teacher told us / that the Earth / moved round the Sun. / No error .
39.The eyes of an octopus / are remarkably similar / to those of a human being . / No error.
40.Chhatrapati Shivaji's succession / as a fighter and leader / is imcomparable. / No error.
41. She did / the work very well, however, / she showed no interest / in anything beyond her assignment./No error.
42. I have read very carefully / the three first chapters of this book / and I have just glanced through the / rest of the novel / No error.
43. Raju's habit of / delaying his work / puts his colleagues to a lot of trouble./ No error.
44. Mahendra and his friend were going to / see a picture / when they met his common friend./ No error.
45. You had better / rest for some days / at a peaceful place./No error.
46. Randhir as well as / his three friends / were invited / to the Russia festival in Delhi./ No error.
47. The jury / is divided / in their / decision./No error.
48. He cut / the plants / with a scissor / that were blunt./ No error.
49. The bus / has arrived / when we reached / the stand./ No error.
50. The Chief Minister / has / just returned / back from the centre./ No error.
51. All we could find / from his neighbours are / that he has / a job in the competition./ No error.
52. None of the rooms / are available / for occupation / at present./ No error.
53. Drawing water from the well / is preferable than depending on / the erratic tap-water supply./ No error.
54. May I know / whom / you wish / to see now ? / No error.
55. Sumitra appealed / to the managing committee/ that she may be / allowed to join the volunteer force./ No error.
56. Being a short vacation / Vanita had to return / without visiting / many of the places./ No error.
57. An uncle of mine / who is a lawyer / gave me a useful advice / when I went to see him there weeks ago./ No error. 
58. An old man in the crowd warned Julius Caesar/ from the danger of death / on a certain day./ No error.
59. If John had told me / last Thursday / I will have given him the money / but no it is too late./ No error.
60.Never I have listened / to such beautiful music / as the piece we heard on the radio / last night. /No error.
61.If you had seen  / yesterday's cricket I am sure you / would have enjoyed / seeing our team bat / No error.
62. I enquired of him / why he is so negligent / in his studies / No error .
63. As the meeting / was about to end / he insisted to ask/several questions/No error. 
64. Another baffling change / that I notice in him now-a- days / is that he avoids to speak to me. / No error.
65. I asked  him / how could he go out / if it started raining / No error.
66. One of the state in which / Satyagraha was offered was offered was Rajkot, / where he had spent his youth. / No error.
67. Hardly the inspector had arrived there / to investigate the crime / when the house was set ablaze./ No error .
68. Since his arrival at his native town / he is trying to the best of his power / to spread education among the poor masses. / No error.
69. In various parts of the country/ ponds just dry down / in the scorching heat of summer./ No error.
70. He lay the watch on the table / and then forgot all about it / when he went out / No error.
71. Although he draws a reasonably good salary/ he has a large family to support / and he finds it difficult to make both ends meet./ No error.
72. While it is apparent / that biothechnology offers significant benefits/ adequate attention has not been focussed to this vital areas. / No error.
73. Being a sunny day / I decided to skip / work and stay at home . / No error.
74. We had to cancel our trip to Delhi / because when we reached the railway station / the train left. / No error.
75. Many a student / has failed in the Mathematics test / but Dilip has scored 100 percent. / No error.
76. The General with over 1000 officers and soldiers / have surrendered to the / Indian troops who are patrolling the valley./ No error.
77. If he wrote the examination faster / and had answered one more question / he would have scored better./ No error.
78. For decades / there have been / a debate on whether schizophrenia is a psychological condition . / No error.
79. Mohan is the one / who always finds / fault with whatever Ram does./ No error.
80. There is a need / to revising Government policies / on controlling unauthorized constructions. / No error.
81. We know where it begins / but we don't know / that where it ends./ No error.
82. The simplest method / of welding two pieces of metal together / in known as pressure welding./ No error.
83. One of the important benefits / of machine age / is that our standard of life has improved./ No error.
84. There is sense of urgency / in locating alternative sources of water / to augment the dwindling supply. /No error.
85. Although there is virtually no production in India / the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' estimate / that India has perhaps the largest accumulated stocks of silver in the work. / No error.
86. Neither the severe earthquake / or the subsequent famine / could demoralize the people of the people of the country . / No error.
87. As soon as I shall reach New Delhi / I shall send you the file / you have asked for. / No error.
88. All the furnitures have been / replaced by the owner of the house before shifting. / No error.
89. Beware of / a fair weather friend / who is neither a friend in need nor a friend indeed. / No error.
90. Copernicus proved / that Earth / moves round the Sun. / No error.
91. Seldom we have been treated / in such a rude manner / by the police personnel./ No error.
92. Some men are born great / some achieve greatness / and some had greatness thrust on them. / No error.
93. The property / was divided / among the two brothers. / No error .
94. I am quite certain / that the lady is not only greedy / but miserly. / No error.
95. There are a number of reasons / I do not like him / but his selfishness is intolerable. / No error.
96. I have read an interesting book yesterday / and underlined the new words / which are simple but effective. / No error.
97 He cannot be trusted / with important secret informations / otherwise I would have made him my assistant./ No error .
98. Is there further reasons / you can give me for your failure / to do as you promised ? / No error.
99. During the final minutes of the speech / the speaker requested to / the audience to have patience / . No error.
100. He is running temperature since last Friday / and doctors suspect / that he is down with typhoid ./ No error.
  

Some of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error.
1.The assassin was convicted / and ordered to be hung / even though the defence lawyer handled the case efficiently. / No error.
2.Being unable to / cope up with the syllabus / he discontinued the course. / No error
3.If I was told earlier / I would have certainly helped you. / No error.
4.Alms / are given / to the poors. / No error
5.Mrs. Pratap, being a good teacher, / she is selected / for the National Award . / No error.
6.We have to / insure that members / fulfil the requirements. / No error.
7.No sooner did the teacher /enter the class / when the students stood up. / No error.
8. The type of qualities you acquire / depend upon your company / and so you associate yourselves with simple and good natured people./ No error.
9.The earth's atmosphere / comprises of numerous gases. / No error.
10.He / takes pain/ over his work./ No error.
11.None of the diplomats at the conference / was able either to comprehend / or solve the problem. / No error.
12.The whole block of flats / including two shops / was destroyed in fire. / No error.
13.They were having / a birthday party at home / next week / No error.
14.The inaugural function / is temporarily interrupted / as the lights suddenly went out ./No error.
15.He always practises / the justice and cares / for moral principles. / No error.
16.His assistants have / and are still doing / excellent work for the organisation. / No error.
17.Thanks to medical research / our lives have become / healthier and long. / No error.
18.The first task is provided / sufficient arable land / to the disposssessed farmers. / No error.
19.Paper should be / recycle / if possible / No error.
20.No sooner did he see / the traffic policeman / he wore seat belt / No error.
21.He walked / ten miles / by foot. / No error.
22.He is good / in mathematics / but his friend isn't. / No error.
23.By noon / the fog cleared / completely. / No error.
24.Ahmed has been watching / the Oscar nominated film / three times. / No error.
25.The police / has arrested him / on the charge of theft. / No error.
26.The period / between 1991 to 1995 / was very significant in my life. / No error.
27.Both me  / and my sister / went to a boarding school. / No error.
28.Time and tide / wait / for no man . / No error.
29.Christina's friends / preferred her remedies / over the doctor's. / No error.
30.Those who are in power / have to be sensitive of / the sufferings of the poor. / No error.
31.Raja Rammohan Roy was greatly pained / when he heard the cries of windows / being burnt on their husband's pyres. / No error.
32.Neither of these dresses / give you / that great look. / No error.
33.If he went to Agra, / he would have seen / the Taj Mahal. / No error.
34.There is / a silver lining / on every cloud. / No error.
35.As he is honest / and he is / liked by all . / No error.
36.An Italian artist and inventor / Leonardo da Vinci was / the left-handed. / No error.
37.I am the one / who am / to be lamed. / No error.
38.Our teacher told us / that the Earth / moved round the Sun. / No error .
39.The eyes of an octopus / are remarkably similar / to those of a human being . / No error.
40.Chhatrapati Shivaji's succession / as a fighter and leader / is imcomparable. / No error.
41. She did / the work very well, however, / she showed no interest / in anything beyond her assignment./No error.
42. I have read very carefully / the three first chapters of this book / and I have just glanced through the / rest of the novel / No error.
43. Raju's habit of / delaying his work / puts his colleagues to a lot of trouble./ No error.
44. Mahendra and his friend were going to / see a picture / when they met his common friend./ No error.
45. You had better / rest for some days / at a peaceful place./No error.
46. Randhir as well as / his three friends / were invited / to the Russia festival in Delhi./ No error.
47. The jury / is divided / in their / decision./No error.
48. He cut / the plants / with a scissor / that were blunt./ No error.
49. The bus / has arrived / when we reached / the stand./ No error.
50. The Chief Minister / has / just returned / back from the centre./ No error.
51. All we could find / from his neighbours are / that he has / a job in the competition./ No error.
52. None of the rooms / are available / for occupation / at present./ No error.
53. Drawing water from the well / is preferable than depending on / the erratic tap-water supply./ No error.
54. May I know / whom / you wish / to see now ? / No error.
55. Sumitra appealed / to the managing committee/ that she may be / allowed to join the volunteer force./ No error.
56. Being a short vacation / Vanita had to return / without visiting / many of the places./ No error.
57. An uncle of mine / who is a lawyer / gave me a useful advice / when I went to see him there weeks ago./ No error. 
58. An old man in the crowd warned Julius Caesar/ from the danger of death / on a certain day./ No error.
59. If John had told me / last Thursday / I will have given him the money / but no it is too late./ No error.
60.Never I have listened / to such beautiful music / as the piece we heard on the radio / last night. /No error.
61.If you had seen  / yesterday's cricket I am sure you / would have enjoyed / seeing our team bat / No error.
62. I enquired of him / why he is so negligent / in his studies / No error .
63. As the meeting / was about to end / he insisted to ask/several questions/No error. 
64. Another baffling change / that I notice in him now-a- days / is that he avoids to speak to me. / No error.
65. I asked  him / how could he go out / if it started raining / No error.
66. One of the state in which / Satyagraha was offered was offered was Rajkot, / where he had spent his youth. / No error.
67. Hardly the inspector had arrived there / to investigate the crime / when the house was set ablaze./ No error .
68. Since his arrival at his native town / he is trying to the best of his power / to spread education among the poor masses. / No error.
69. In various parts of the country/ ponds just dry down / in the scorching heat of summer./ No error.
70. He lay the watch on the table / and then forgot all about it / when he went out / No error.
71. Although he draws a reasonably good salary/ he has a large family to support / and he finds it difficult to make both ends meet./ No error.
72. While it is apparent / that biothechnology offers significant benefits/ adequate attention has not been focussed to this vital areas. / No error.
73. Being a sunny day / I decided to skip / work and stay at home . / No error.
74. We had to cancel our trip to Delhi / because when we reached the railway station / the train left. / No error.
75. Many a student / has failed in the Mathematics test / but Dilip has scored 100 percent. / No error.
76. The General with over 1000 officers and soldiers / have surrendered to the / Indian troops who are patrolling the valley./ No error.
77. If he wrote the examination faster / and had answered one more question / he would have scored better./ No error.
78. For decades / there have been / a debate on whether schizophrenia is a psychological condition . / No error.
79. Mohan is the one / who always finds / fault with whatever Ram does./ No error.
80. There is a need / to revising Government policies / on controlling unauthorized constructions. / No error.
81. We know where it begins / but we don't know / that where it ends./ No error.
82. The simplest method / of welding two pieces of metal together / in known as pressure welding./ No error.
83. One of the important benefits / of machine age / is that our standard of life has improved./ No error.
84. There is sense of urgency / in locating alternative sources of water / to augment the dwindling supply. /No error.
85. Although there is virtually no production in India / the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' estimate / that India has perhaps the largest accumulated stocks of silver in the work. / No error.
86. Neither the severe earthquake / or the subsequent famine / could demoralize the people of the people of the country . / No error.
87. As soon as I shall reach New Delhi / I shall send you the file / you have asked for. / No error.
88. All the furnitures have been / replaced by the owner of the house before shifting. / No error.
89. Beware of / a fair weather friend / who is neither a friend in need nor a friend indeed. / No error.
90. Copernicus proved / that Earth / moves round the Sun. / No error.
91. Seldom we have been treated / in such a rude manner / by the police personnel./ No error.
92. Some men are born great / some achieve greatness / and some had greatness thrust on them. / No error.
93. The property / was divided / among the two brothers. / No error .
94. I am quite certain / that the lady is not only greedy / but miserly. / No error.
95. There are a number of reasons / I do not like him / but his selfishness is intolerable. / No error.
96. I have read an interesting book yesterday / and underlined the new words / which are simple but effective. / No error.
97 He cannot be trusted / with important secret informations / otherwise I would have made him my assistant./ No error .
98. Is there further reasons / you can give me for your failure / to do as you promised ? / No error.
99. During the final minutes of the speech / the speaker requested to / the audience to have patience / . No error.
100. He is running temperature since last Friday / and doctors suspect / that he is down with typhoid ./ No error.
  

6 comments:

  1. answer ke sath post kr de bhai pleassssssssssssssss

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sorry Bhai, Next time I will not repeat the same mistake.

    I know every one is angry at me, but you know I have lots of task.

    Sorry again.

    ReplyDelete
  3. I collected these questions and posted here without answer, since I didn't know the answers and still looking for them.
    Please help me to find the solution to all these questions with explanation.
    Thanks

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  4. 1. Hanged
    2. Cope up.... Without with
    3. Were
    4. Is
    5. Remove she
    6. To fulfill
    7. Than
    8. Remove and
    9. Remove of

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