Spotting Errors

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Spotting Errors: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Spotting Errors in Sentences, Errors in Sentences Based on Subject-Verb Agreement, Errors in Sentences Based on Tenses, Errors in Sentences Based on Articles, Errors in Sentences Based on Noun, etc.

Important Questions on Spotting Errors

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

(a) The company has appointed/ (b) consultants to help them/ (c) increase its revenue and/ (d) improve its financial position./ (e) No error.

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

(a) He talked on the phone/ (b) for hours together/ (c) who really irritated/ (d) his parents a lot./ (e) No error.

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

(a) You cannot change/ (b) people, but you/ (c) can definitely/ (d) change own./ (e) No error.

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

(a) A few word of / (b) gratitude are enough / (c) to express your / (d) feelings sincerely./ (e) No error.

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

(a) Even those which/ (b) have no previous/ (c) work experience have/ (d) applied for this job./ (e) No error.

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (4). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

(a) The company is in debt/ (b) and has been unable/ (c) to pay their employee's salaries/ (d) for the past six months./ (e) No error.

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Directions: In the following question, a sentence is divided in four parts. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. Identify the part which is grammatically incorrect and choose the corresponding option. If there is no error, then choose 'No error' as your answer.

While providing fund transfer facilities (1)/ online, makes it convenient (2)/ and easily accessible to customers, (3)/ bank employees face several challenges.(4)/

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A sentence is divided into three parts I, II and III is given.Determine the part(s) which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

The state housing department on Friday issued a circular (I)/ enquiring landlords and homeowners to postpone (II)/collecting rents from tenants for at least three months due to the lock-down. (III)

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A sentence is divided into three parts I, II and III is given.Determine the part(s) which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, (I)/ and from pig to man again; but (II)/ already it was impossible to say what was which. (III)

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A sentence is divided into three parts I, II and III is given.Determine the part(s) which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

The eyes and faces all turned themselves (I)/ onto me, and guiding myself by them, (II)/ as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.(III)

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A sentence is divided into three parts I, II and III is given.Determine the part(s) which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

Upon being a corona hotspot almost a month ago, Bhilwara in Rajasthan (I)/ is now in the verge of turning Covid-19 free. (II)/ On Friday, the tests of the district’s last two patients turned up negative.(III)

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A sentence is divided into three parts I, II and III is given.Determine the part(s) which requires correction and mark it as your answer.

Finance companies said that the measures still do not address (I)/ the key problem of getting banks to lends to borrowers who are (II)/not top-rated, pointing to the huge amount parked with RBI as an example of the risk aversion of banks. (III)

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In the following question, three sentences are provided which is divided in 5 different options. One of these parts may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the option corresponding to the correct sentence as part as your answer.

 

A. In 2008 Goldman offered its first “returnships," eight-week paid internships in non-client facing departments such as operations and IT, in New York. After the program ended, it hired six of the 11 participants.

B. Last year, the Union sports ministry appointed Gambhir as a government nominee on the DDCA executive committee, triggering talk of a political career. “I haven't thought about politics till now and there is no such inclination," he ‘cuts’ the talk in usual, emphatic fashion.

C. B-schools are great places to inculcate a team spirit through an ambience that encourages collaborative learning.

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In the following questions three sentences are provided which is divided in 5 different options. One of these parts may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the option corresponding to the correct sentence as part as your answer.

A. According to the company's 2011 Environmental, Social and Governance Report, the program has helped 120 people around the world navigate their reentry to the workforce.

B. Goldman Sachs has been a pioneer in creating return-to work programs. The effort began in 2006, when the bank holded one-day informational seminars in New York for women (and a few men) who’d interrupted their careers and were looking to go back to work. The following year the firm held a seminar in London as well.

C. The number of apprenticeship programs in the U.S. has shrunk by 36% since 1998.

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In the following question, three sentences are provided which is divided in 5 different options. One of these parts may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the option corresponding to the correct sentence as part as your answer.

A. Firm living up to their reputation of bucking the national (or in this instance, the north Indian) trend, Punjabis have once again voted for the Congress, while most of India overwhelmingly voted Prime Minister NarendraModi and the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP)-led NDA back to a second consecutive term in office.

B. The Punjab Congress, headed by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was helped by two factors: Firstly, both, the opposition ShiromaniAkali Dal (SAD) and the AamAadmi Party (AAP) were afflicted to factionalism

C. The government is in a bind: should it cut fuel prices to assuage public anger and risk cuts in its social programme budgets ahead of the 2019 elections?

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In the following question, three sentences are provided which is divided in 5 different options. One of these parts may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the option corresponding to the correct sentence as part as your answer.

 

A. Participants might, for example, help to lead an initiative aimed at improving client confidentiality or develop the curriculum for a training program.

B. Executive Education of IIMA offers the most expansive management programmes in India, with a portfolio of over 200 programmes to assist the development of outstanding leaders.

C. IIMA has the competence to develop and offer training at every level for professionals in government and industry particular programmes for senior managers.

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In the following question, three sentences are provided which is divided in 5 different options. One of these parts may or may not be grammatically or contextually correct. Choose the option corresponding to the correct sentence as part as your answer.

A. Australia-educated Kiran Mazumdar Shaw returned to India in 1975 with humble dreams than Biocon, the company she founded

B. A decision majority has given Narendra Modi the mandate to reshape the agenda and future of India. But with great power comes great expectation. And he needs to meet them with speed, strength and sensitivity

C. Air India salutes its women on International Women's Day with a flight manned by an all-woman crew, both in the sky as well as on the ground

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In the following question a sentence is given into four parts (A), (B), (C), (D). The error, if any, will be two parts of the sentence. The number of that parts is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (E).

Madhya Pradesh has recorded the highest percentage of newborn deaths of 11.5% (A)/for the total admissions to government-run sick newborn care units (SNCUs) (B)/in the past three years across the country, a rate ominously spiralling for 2017, (C)/according to the National Health Mission (NHM).(D)/

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In the following question a sentence is given into four parts (A), (B), (C), (D). The error, if any, will be two parts of the sentence. The number of that parts is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (E).

The third Bodo Accord signed in (A)/a set of extremist groups more than a fortnight ago appear to have unsettled (B)/another set of extremists who signed the second accord in February 2003 (C)/and went on to rule the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC).(D)/

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Directions (6-10): In the following question a sentence is given into four parts (A), (B), (C), (D). The error, if any, will be two parts of the sentence. The number of that parts is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (E).

8) The Madhav National Park has claimed denotified land are unavailable (A)/for allotment to 39 tribal families displaced 20-years ago to make way for (B)/a tiger corridor, even though hundreds of others compensated for to vacate (C)/ the Park continue to farm and encroach on the corridor unchecked.(D)/