Direction (1-15) : Find out the error in each of the following sentences, if there is no error, answer is (e). Avoid punctuation mistakes (if any).
Q1.
(a)One of my ambitions
(b) are to become
(c) a cricketer
(d) one day.
(e) No error.
Q2.
(a)The whole block of flats
(b) including two clinics
(c) were destroyed
(d) in earthquake.
(e) No error.
Q3.
(a)Due to absence of any witness or evidence
(b)neither of the
(c) five accused
(d) could be convicted.
(e) No error.
Q4.
(a) If everything are
(b) explained to us, from A to Z,
(c) then even an idiot
(d) can grasp it.
(e) No error.
Q5.
(a)Every man in the world
(b) fervently hopes that their son
(c) will be a humble and kind man
(d)when he grows up.
(e) No error.
Q6.
(a) Naxalites
(b) kill innocent people
(c) to spread
(d) a violence.
(e) No error.
Q7.
(a) The answer
(b) to all the sufferings
(c) of human beings
(d) lies in the science.
(e) No error.
Q8.
(a) It is very difficult
(b) to find out the number of
(c) the creatures living
(d) on the earth.
(e) No error.
Q9.
(a)The earthquake derailed the lives
(b) of many people but in an year
(c) time leaving apart the victims
(d) ,no one remembered anything
(e)No error.
Q10.
(a) Mother in him
(b) could not bear
(c) the condition of
(d) his ailing son
(e) No error.
Q11.
(a) They takes pain
(b) to hire people whose personalities
(c) predispose them to serve
(d) customers well
(e) No error.
Q12.
(a) Teacher told
(b) students that
(c) radiuses of a circle
(d) are always equal.
(e) No error.
Q13.
(a) I like(b) the poetries
(c) of Rabindranath Tagore
(d) and Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
(e) No error
Q14.
(a) The sceneries
(b) of Uttarakhand
(c) is very
(d) charming
(e) No error.
Q15.
(a) Whenever she goes
(b) to Mumbai
(c) she stays in
(d) World-classes hotels.
(e) No error.
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Solutions
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘is’ should be used in place of ‘are’.
S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘was’ should be used in place of ‘were’ since the main subject (block) of the given sentence is singular. Hence, verb used should also be singular.
S3. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘None of’ should be used in place of ‘neither of’ since, ‘neither of’ is used for ‘two’ whereas, none of’ is used for more than two’.
S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘is’ should be used in place of ‘are’. Since ‘everything’ is a singular subject hence singular verb should be used.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Every man’ is singular and hence, singular verb and singular pronoun should be used. Hence, ‘his’ should be used in place of ‘their’.
S6. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘violence’ is an uncountable noun. Hence ‘a’ should not be used.
S7. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘The’ is not used with the name of any subject.
S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. The should not be used.
S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Year’ does not begin with vowel sound. Hence, ‘a’ should be used in place of ‘an’.
S10. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘The’ should be added before ‘mother’. Since, the article ‘the’ is used before the name of a personality, whenever, we talk about a personality inside a person.
S11. Ans.(a)
Sol. ‘take pains’ is the correct idiomatic usage.
S12. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘Radii’ (not radiuses) is plural of ‘Radius’.
S13. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘Poetry’ is an uncountable noun and hence, it does not have any plural form.
S14. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Scenery’ should be used in place of ‘Sceneries’, Since, scenery is an uncountable noun.
S15. Ans. (d)
Sol. ‘World-class’ should be used in place of ‘world-classes’ since, hyphenated nouns are always used in singular form.
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