- These tests are a check for your learning and are meant to serve as tools for assessment.
- The test is designed to check your current understanding of the language and whether you are able to use the rules of grammar to identify errors in sentences
- Direction for Individual Question Each sentence is divided into parts and each part is labeled as an answer option. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark that part as the answer. If there is no error, mark that part as your answer.
Common Errors: Test-21
Congratulations - you have completed Common Errors: Test-21.You scored %%SCORE%% out of %%TOTAL%%.Your performance has been rated as %%RATING%%
Your answers are highlighted below.
Question 1 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
Product planners in the production | |
units work intimately with | |
programe managers to define | |
new ideas for products or product features. | |
No error |
Question 1 Explanation:
No error.
Question 2 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
To our knowledge, | |
no one foresaw exactly how fast | |
and how big the | |
PC market had grown | |
in the years to come. |
Question 2 Explanation:
As the word foresaw is being used, we get a hint that now future tense would be used. So the faulty part of the sentence is fourth where ‘would grow’ has to be used instead of ‘had grown’.
Question 3 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
On writing | |
this book, we cannot overemphasize the unique opportunity we have had | |
to probe | |
broadly and freely into the organization. | |
No error |
Question 3 Explanation:
A wrong preposition is used in the first part of the sentence of the sentence. ‘On writing this book..’ does not make any sense in context of the sentence, the correct version is ‘While writing this book’.
Question 4 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
The results of the study showed that | |
if the partners were willing to talk to each other | |
and arrive at a mutually agree- able decision, | |
the joint decisions were more better than anyone person's judgment. | |
No error |
Question 4 Explanation:
The problem is with the fourth part. More and better, both being comparatives cannot be used together. Hence, the correct form would be ‘much better’ and not ‘more better’.
Question 5 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
A year after the global financial crisis saw | |
students from the best B-schools across the world struggling for a job, | |
a survey on management education this year thrown | |
up some rather interesting findings. | |
No error |
Question 5 Explanation:
The error is in the third part. The tense used is wrong. The correct form would either be has thrown or threw.
Once you are finished, click the button below. Any items you have not completed will be marked incorrect.
There are 5 questions to complete.
List |
