(a) We are proud to announce) (b) that every one of us have earned/ (c) a good name./ (d) No error.
(a) Here is/ (b) the man whom I think) (c) committed the crime./ (d) No error.
(a) He took/ (b) his younger sister/ (c) with himself./ (d) No error.
(a) The company is in debt/ (b) and has been unable/ (c) to pay their employees’ salaries/ (d) for the past six months./ (e) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) The company has appointed/ (b) consultants to help them/ (c) increase its revenue and/ (d) improve its financial position./ (e) No error.
(a) You cannot change/ (b) people, but you/ (c) can definitely/ (d) change own./ (e) : No error.
(a) Governments and business houses must reduce/ (b) its own energy use) (c) and promote conservation/ (d) to their citizens and employees., (e) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) Even those which/ (b) have no previous/ (C) work experience have/ (d) applied for this job./ (e) No error.
(a) He talked on the phone/ (b) for hours together/ (c) who really irritated/ (d) his parents a lot./ (e) No error. Spotting Errors In English
a) Instead of laying off/ (b) the workers, the company/ (c) decided to ask them/ (d) to avail voluntary retirement. / (e) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) The two sisters shouted/ (b) at one another/ (c) in public./ (d) No error.
(a) We must supplement/ (b) our diet with vitamins and minerals/ (c) in order tokeep/ (d) oneself fit/(e) No error.
(a) Mrs. Pratap, being a good teacher/ (b) she is selected/ (c) for the National Award./ (d) No error
25.(a) The poor man/ (b) poisoned him/ (c) and his own children./ (d) No error.
(a) It was in 2006/ (b) that we first flew) (c) to the United States. / (d) No error.
(a) I was driving under the bridge/ (b) as a football/ (c) hit my window./ (d) No error.
(a) Many a student) (b) have passed/ (c) the I.I.T. examination., (d) No error.
(a) It was me who was/ (b) responsible for/ (c) making all the arrangements for the successful completion of his studies., (d) No error.
(a) I wonder/ (b) why are you tinkering with the wire./ (c) You might get a shock./ (d) No error.
(a) John, I and Hari/ (b) have finished/ (c) our studies., (d) No error.
(a) He doesn’t/ (b) know/ (c) to swim./ (d) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) All the dresses/ (b) looked good and so I/ (c) bought all of it./ (d) No error.
(a) Those people who/ (b)do not work hard/ (c) they do not succeed in life./ (d) No error.
(a) He bathed himself/ (b) in/ (c) a river., (d) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) She could not/ (b) bear/ (c) his separation./ (d) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) If you want this job/ (b) you will need/ (c) his favour./ (d) No error.
(a) Both of them will not/ (b) refutel (c) the charges./ (d) No error.
(a) She is the kind / (b) of woman whom every body knows/ (c) is benign and magnanimous./ (d) No error.
(a) The master did not know/ (b) who of the servants/ (c) broke the expensive dinner set./ (d) No error.
(a) The Congress Party stood/ (b) for implementation of the Nuclear Liability Bill/ (c) and was ready to stake their political existence. (d) No error.
(a) He is not one of those/ (b) who will help every Tom, Dick and Harry/ (c) whom he meets./ (d) No error.
(a) My teacher/ (b) did not object/ (c) to me using the calculator./ (d) No error.
(a) He, You and I/ (b) shall arrange everything/ (c) and shall not ask them for help./ (d) No error.
(a) Was it me) (B) who had to face/ (c) the music ?/ (d) No error.
(a) The audience/ (b) are requested/ (c) to be in its seats and stay away from the track./ (d) No error.
(a) The number of vehicles/ (B) plying on the roads of Delhi/ (c) is more than on the roads of Bangalore./ (D) No error.
(a) Being a destitute/ (b) I admitted him/ (c) to an orphanage./ (d) No error.
(a) One should keepi (b) his promise/ (c) if one wants respect from both friends and enemies./(d) No error.
(a) Last summer I went to Shimla/ (b) and enjoyed very/ (c) much. (d) No error.
(a) If I were him/ (b) I would teach/ (c) him a lesson./ (d) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) Being a) (b) rainy day I / (c) could not go to school/ (d) No error.
(a) One of them/(b) forgot to take their passport/ (c) and found himself in a difficult situation/(d) No error.
(a) Mr. Sharma, our representative,/ (b) he will attend the meeting/ (c) on our behalf./ (d) No error.
(a) Each girl was/ (b) given a packet of sweets/ (c) and she was happy./ (d) No error.
(a) Myself and he/ (b) will manage/ (c) everything./ (d) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) The Ganga is a river/ (b) whose origin/ (c) has always been a matter of speculation./ (d) No error.
(a) My friend/ (b) is laborious and intelligent, (c) isn’t it?/ (d) No error.
(a) It is difficult to say/ (b) who is the better) (c) of the two players./ (d) No error.
(a) It is the best/ (b) which the government can do/ (c) for the downtrodden./ (d) No error.
(a) Neither of the two friends/ (b) has got their money back/ (c) from the company./ (d) No error.
(a) This is the road/ (b) whose inauguration/ (c) was done by the President./ (d) No error.
(a) Many women/ (b) reconcile to the) (c) demands of their in-laws./ (d) No error.
(a) May I know/ (b) to who) (c) I am speaking ?) (d) No error.
(a) The person who/ (b) I met yesterday/ (c) was my classmate./ (d). No error.
(a) Owing to me being a new comer/ (b) I was unable/ (c) to get a good house./ (d) No error.
(a) A good friend of/ (b) me has been/ (c) in London for twenty years./ (d) No error.
(a) It was him/ (b) who came running/ (c) into the classroom./ (d) No error.
(a) I and Raju/ (b) left for Delhi) (c) last summer./ (d) No error.
(a) I will certainly) (b) avail of your offer/ (c) when the occasion arises. / (d) No error.
(a) The book/ (b) is well illustrated/ (c) and attractively bound/ (d) making altogether an attractive volume/(e) No error. Spotting Errors In English
(a) Besides me/ (b) many other/ (c) were present./ (d) No error.
(a) My house/ (b) is farther/ (c) than her’s./ (d) No error.
(a) He is the person,/ (b) whom, everyone thought,/ (c) has stolen the ring./ (d) No error.
(b) Change ‘him’ into ‘his’. A possessive adjective comes before a gerund (joining).
(b) Change ‘me’ into ‘my’. A possessive adjective comes before a gerund (winning).
(c) Use ‘it’ (pronoun) for ‘dog’.
(c) Use ‘can they’ in place of ‘isn’t it’. See Question Tag.
(c) ‘Between……….and takes objective form of pronoun. Change ‘I’ into ‘me’.
(b) Change ‘that’ into ‘who’. ‘School girl’ is the subject which will take relative pronoun ‘who’.
(c) ‘Mother’ will take possessive adjective ‘her’.
(b) Change ‘is’ into ‘am’. The verb that follows the relative pronoun should match with the antecedent to the relative pronoun.(Here ‘I’ is the antecedent of ‘who’).
(a) Use a reflexive pronoun with ‘Avail’. Use ‘myself after ‘avail’.
(a) Change ‘you’ into ‘yourself.
(c) Change ‘their’ into ‘his’. ‘Each’ takes singular adjective/pronoun.
(b) ‘has’ is used with ‘everyone’.
(b) “The man’ is the subject here that will take relative pronoun ‘who’.
(c) Change ‘himself into ‘him’.
(c) ‘Company’ is a singular noun. Singular possessive adjective ‘its’ will be used with it.
(b) ‘Company’ is a singular noun and will take ‘it’ in place of ‘them’.
(d) Change ‘own’ into ‘yourself. Spotting Errors In English
(b) Change ‘its’ into ‘their’. Government and business houses being plural will take plural adjective ‘their’.
19.(a) Change ‘which’ into ‘who’. Spotting Errors In English
(c) Use ‘which’ in place of ‘who’. ‘Talking on telephone’ is not a person but an activity and hence takes ‘which’ and not ‘who’.
(d) Avail is followed by a reflexive pronoun and preposition ‘of. Add ‘themselves of after ‘avail’.
( d )Change ‘one another’ into ‘each other’.
( b )Remove ‘oneself. Reflexive pronoun doesn’t come with ‘keep’.
( b ) Remove ‘she’. In a single sentence a noun and a pronoun for the same noun cannot come together.
( d )Change ‘him’ into ‘himself. Spotting Errors In English
Change ‘that’ into ‘when’ because ‘2006’ is time.
(b) Change ‘as’ into ‘when’. Here the time is important.
(b) Many a’ is singular and will take singular verb ‘has’.
( a) Use ‘It was I’. Sub form ‘I’ will follow ‘It + was (form of be).
(b) Use ‘are’ after ‘you’. Sentence is not interrogative.
(a) According to rule 231, 1st person should come last. ‘John, Hari and I’ is the correct order.
(c) ‘Wh’ family will come after ‘know’ and ‘wonder’ if the verbs are followed by ‘to+V, . Change ‘to swim’ into ‘how to swim’.
(c) Change ‘it’ into ‘them’ as ‘dresses’ is a plural noun. Spotting Errors In English
(c) Remove ‘they’. In a sentence ‘those people’ and ‘they’ will not come together.
(a) Remove ‘himself. A reflexive pronoun will not be used after ‘bathe’.
(c) ‘His separation’ is wrong as possessive case is not used with word ‘separation’. Change ‘his separation’ into ‘separation from him’.
(c) Change ‘his favour’ into ‘favour from him’.
.(a) Do not use ‘not’ with ‘both’. Change ‘both of them will not’ into ‘neither of them will’.
(b) Use ‘who’ in place of ‘whom’.’Woman’ who is the subject here will take ‘who’. .
(b) Change ‘who’ into ‘which’. ‘Of is preceded by ‘which’ and not ‘who/whom’.
(c) Change ‘their’ into ‘its’. ‘Congress Party’ is singular and will take singular adjective ‘its’.
(c) Change ‘he meets’ into ‘they meet’. ‘Those’ will take ‘they’ and not ‘he’.
(b) Change ‘me’ into ‘my’. A possessive adjective comes before a gerund (joining).
(a) According to rule 231 rule you, he, and I is the correct order.
(a) ‘was it I’ is the correct formation. This is the interrogative form of ‘ It was I
(c) Change ‘its’ into ‘their’. For individual persons/things, plural pronoun plural verb are used.
(c) Add ‘that of before ‘on’. ‘That of refers to ‘the number of vehicles’.
(a) ‘Being’ should be preceded by ‘he’. If ‘He’ is not made the subject of destituite becomes the subject of destitute and the meaning of the sentence becomes wrong.
(b) Use one’s in place of ‘his’. ‘Ones’ is the possessive case of ‘one’.
(b) Add ‘myself after enjoyed. If there is no object after the verb ‘enjoy’, a reflexive pronoun follows the verb.
(a) Change ‘him’ into ‘he’. Here ‘him’ is not an object.
(a) Add ‘It’ before being to make the sentence meaningful. See sentence 48.
.(b) Change ‘their’ into ‘his’. ‘one’ is a singular pronoun and hence will take singular possessive case ‘his’.
( b ) Remove ‘He’. Noun has already been used in this sentence.
(c) Change ‘she’ into ‘they’. Here the sentence changes after ‘and’ and hence plural pronoun ‘they’ will be used as now all the girls are being referred to. Spotting Errors In English
( a ) Change ‘myself into ‘I’. Reflexive pronoun cannot come in place of subject.
( b ) Change ‘whose origin’ into ‘the origin of which’ because ‘whose’ is not used for ‘non-living things’.
(c) Change ‘isn’t it?’ into ‘Isn’t he ?’. Spotting Errors In English
.(b) Change ‘who’ into ‘which’. ‘Who/whom’ cannot come before ‘of’.
(b) Change ‘which’ into ‘that’. A superlative degree is followed by ‘that’.
(b) Change their’ into ‘his’. ‘Neither of / ‘either of / ‘each of etc take plural pronoun or noun after them but verb/pronoun in the latter part of the sentence is always singular.
(b) Change ‘whose inauguration’ into ‘the inauguration of which’. ‘Whose’ is not used for ‘non-living things’.
.(b) A ‘reflexive pronoun’ must follow reconcile. Add ‘themselves’ after ‘reconcile’.
(b) Change ‘who’ into ‘whom’ because we need a relative pronoun for an object.
.( a )Change ‘who’ into ‘whom’ because we need a relative pronoun for an object.
(a) Change ‘me’ into ‘my'(possessive case) before Gerund ‘being’.
.( b )Change ‘me’ into ‘mine’. Spotting Errors In English
.(a) Change ‘him’ into ‘he’.
.(a) According to rule 231, ‘Raju and I’ is the correct order.
.(b) Reflexive pronoun ‘myself must follow ‘avail’. Subject is ‘l’ and reflexive pronoun must be ‘myself.
(c) Use ‘it’ after ‘making’ as the pronoun for ‘book’ will be ‘it’. Spotting Errors In English
.(b) Many’ is plural in meaning . Hence it must be followed by ‘others’ (Plural).
(c) Change ‘her’s’ into ‘hers’.
.(b) Change ‘Whom’ into ‘who’. Spotting Errors In English
