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- 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.
- Directions for individual questionsEach 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-3
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Question 1 |
Identify the part of the sentence with error. In case of no error, select option (E).
If you were given a | |
chance to live in | |
some other country, which | |
one would you have chosen? | |
no error |
Question 1 Explanation:
(5) no error
Question 2 |
Identify the part of the sentence with error. In case of no error, select option (E).
Having lived to | |
Paris for two | |
years, Prakash understands' | |
French reasonably well. | |
No error |
Question 2 Explanation:
(1) having lived in.
Incorrect preposition used.Paris is a place to live ‘in’. So ‘in’ should be used instead of ‘to’.
Question 3 |
Identify the part of the sentence with error. In case of no error, select option (E).
Reema decided not to | |
watch the movie because | |
she had to study for the | |
quiz to be hold the next day. | |
No error |
Question 3 Explanation:
(4) to be held
In coherence with the rest of the sentence, which is in the past tense, the verb ‘to be’ must be followed by the past participle form, hence ‘held’ is the correct usage.
Question 4 |
Identify the part of the sentence with error. In case of no error, select option (E).
Athletes do various | |
kinds of warm | |
up activities before | |
they start to running. | |
No error |
Question 4 Explanation:
The infinitive ‘to’ is always followed by the first form of the verb. The part can be correctly re-written as either: ‘they start running’ or ‘they start to run’.
Question 5 |
Identify the part of the sentence with error. In case of no error, select option (E).
Ramesh will lives | |
with Ram until he | |
finds a separate | |
house for himself | |
No error |
Question 5 Explanation:
Although, Ramesh is singular, in the future tense, it will be followed by the plural form of the verb ‘live’ and not ‘lives’. The singular form of the verb with an ‘s’ at the end is usually used with a singular noun/ pronoun in the simple present tense.
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