Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in more sweetly.
Smell here is a linking verb describing the roses, so it takes an adjective, not an adverb - smell sweeter. The same rule gives it tastes good and he looks well.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in all the information that you want.
The relative clause needs no that after all the information in this construction, and the sentence reads more naturally as all the information you want. The redundancy is what the question marks.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in awaiting for.
Await is transitive and takes no preposition - awaiting the arrival. Wait is the one that needs for.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in are.
A distance treated as a single quantity takes a singular verb: sixty miles is a good distance. The same rule governs ten years is a long time.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: A
The error is in they have been.
Until they quarrelled places the friendship wholly in the past, so the verb must be simple past or past perfect - they had been very close friends. The present perfect connects to now, which the quarrel has ended.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in my tooth was stopped aching.
Stop takes a gerund directly - my tooth stopped aching. The passive was stopped would mean something else stopped it.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in to defend the hardly-won.
The compound wanted is hard-won, meaning won with difficulty. Hardly means scarcely, so hardly-won would mean barely won at all.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in when the rain, heavy and stormy, rushed in.
No sooner pairs with than, not when. Hardly and scarcely are the ones that take when.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: A
The error is in if a man diligently seeks to come into the contact.
Come into contact takes no article - the phrase is fixed. Adding the definite article makes it point to a particular contact that has not been named.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in remember me.
Remember to do something is the construction for a duty not yet performed: you must remember to post this letter. Remember me to someone means send my regards, which is a different idiom.
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