In following questions, some parts of sentences have errors and some are corrects. Find out which part of sentence has an error and blacken the oval corresponding to the appropriate letter (A, B, C). If a sentence is free from errors, blacken the oval corresponding to (D) in answer sheet.
Spotting Errors Set -I
1. The composition contained / even no less / than
twenty mistakes. / No error.
A B C D
2. He told us / that / he has not read
the book. / No error
A B C D
3. The minister announced / compensation for / the victims from the
accident. / No error
A B C D
4. I should / have preferred / to go by
myself. / No error
A B C D
5. There is / no place / in this compartment
/ No error
A B C D
6. The / young man / had no manner. / No error
A B C D
7. There are many / beautiful furnitures / in
the room./ No error
A B C D
8. The policeman prevented us from / entering
into / the hall. / No error
A B C D
9. The world / comprises / good and bad
people./ No error
A B C D
10. Would you please order / for tea and biscuits
/ for all of us / No error
A B C
D
11. I have paid / my bill for electricity/ only a
week ago. / No error
A B C D
12. He
has just been appointed / Ambassador to an important country / for a five-year
term./ No error
A B C D
13. This
is the old man / whom I said / had helped me. / No error
A B C D
14. The
dog pushed / the door open / and stole the meat. / No error
A B C D
15. The
truck driver accused / the lady for walking / in the middle of the road. / No
error
A B C D
16.
Everybody / it must be admitted / has their ups and downs. /No error
A B C D
17. When
the thief broke into their house / they raised a hue and cry / and
the thief caught A B C
immediately by the
people. / No
error
D
18. I
have tried / to meet him several times / he isn’t never at home. / No error
A B C D
19. This
house / is / mine / No error
A B C D
20. He
is proficient in Hindi / and can speak English / but he does not know to read
A B C
and write English. / No
error.
D
21.
Every woman in the world / fervently hopes that their child / will be a normal
and
A B C
healthy baby./ No error.
D
22. Neither of them / send their papers / in time
for the last seminar./ No error
A B C D
23.
There is not many traffic / along the street / where I live./ No error
A B C D
24. The
front page story was about a school girl / that had hurt herself / while saving
a
A B C
child in an accident.
/ No error
D
25. He
took / leave of / four days. / No error
A B
C D
26. The
police arrived and discovered / a large number of hoarded sugar / in his shop.
/ No error.
A B C D
27. Raju
doesn’t come to our house because our dog barks at him / and licks him. /
A B
although I have often told
him not to afraid of it. / No error
C D
28.
Running across the playground, my pen fell in the mud / fortunately, I noticed
it /
A B
and picked it up. /No
error.
C D
29. The
last thing that the fond mother / gave her only son / was his blessing / No
error
A B C D
30. To
his innovative ideas and practices in farming / he was given / the Krishi
Pandit
A B
Award last year. / No
error
C D
31. As a
dramatist / Shaw is superior than / any other twentieth century writer. / No
error.
A B C D
32. Molly speaks / French well / isn’t it ? / No
error
A B
C D
33. Mutton is more hard / to digest /than
vegetables. / No error
A B C D
34. I
have found that he is/ neither willing / or capable. / No error.
A B C
D
35. For
times immemorial / sea shells have been used by man / in many ways. / No error.
A B C D
36. He
will not / listen / what you say. / No
error.
A B C
D
37. I
have done my best / the whole thing is
now/ in the hands of the Gods. / No error.
A B C D
38. Oh
for God sake / leave me alone / and go away from here. / No error.
A B C D
39. This
is a strange world / where each one pursues their own golden bubble /
A B
and laughs at others for doing
the same. / No error
C D
40. Each
of the boys / were to blame / for the accident. / No error.
A B C
D
41.
Young school students nowadays / are subjected to intense pressure from peers
A B
and parents alike / to fetch
high marks in public examinations. / No error.
C D
42. The
candidate’s performance / was not upto mark / in the interview. / No error.
A B C D
43. After a successful tour of Europe / my old
parents returned back to India /
A B
on New Year’s day. / No error
C D
44. The
commission set up to submit a report / about the reasons for the fall in
educational standards/
A B
could
not complete its work even after two years. / No error
C D
45.
Though death is a daily fact / it is a wonder that people should / behave to be
immortal. / No error.
A B C D
46. It
would be more better / if you could paint / the gate green. / No error.
A B C
D
47.
Being his sole companion / I was the one to who / he naturally looked for help.
/ No error.
A B C D
48. He
came to report that the work went very slowly / because the X-ray machine was
A B
not working very good
/ that morning. / No error.
C D
49. The
principal objected / to them wearing short skirts / at the function . /No error.
A B C D
50.I
spent nearly four and half years / at Harrow / of which three were in the Army
class. / No error.
A B C D
Answers
1.
(B) Remove even.
2 (C)
Use had in place of has
3. (C)
Use of in place of from
4.
(D) The sentence is correct
5.
(B) Use room or seat in place of place
6. (C) Say had no manners
7. (B)
Use pieces of furniture in place of furnitures.
8. (B) Remove into
9. (C)
Say both good and bad people.
10. (B)
Remove for
11. (A) Remove have
12. (B) Add an before ambassador
13. (B)
Use who in place of whom I said
14. (D) The sentence is correct
15. (B) Use of in place of for
16. (C) It
shows be her or his
17. (C)
Add was before caught
18. (C)
Use is in place of isn’t
19. (D)
The sentence is correct.
20. (C) Add how after know
21. (B) Use her in place of their
22. (B)
Please check the rule of antecedent of pronouns
23. (A)
Use much in place of many
24. (B)
The relative pronouns here used that for a girl is not proper. It must be who
because it is always used for proper nouns and human beings. It’s a spelled out
rule of English language.
25. (B) Here leave can’t go alone. Because the
basic rule of English language is that Noun always goes with a number
/diferminer
26.
(B) Use quantity in place of number
27. (C)
Add be before afraid
28. (A)
Found in the sentence seems proper
29. (C)
Use her in place of his
30. (A)
Use For in place of To
31. (B)
Use to in place of than
32. (C)
Say doesn’t she
33.
(A) Use harder in place of more hard
34. (C) Say nor capable
35. (A) Say From time immemorial
36. (B) Say listen to
37. (C)
Say in the hands of God.
38. (A)
Say oh for God’s sake
39.
(B) Use his in place of their
40. (B)
Use was in place of were
41. (B) Add their before peers.
42. (B) Add the before mark
43. (B) Remove back
44. (B) use academic in place of educational
45. (A) Remove daily
46. (A)
Remove more or use much in place of more
47. (B) Use whom in place of who
48. (B)
Use well in place of very good
49. (B)
Use their in place of them
50. (A) Add a before half
