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 nor did help them.
Nor requires inversion of subject and auxiliary: nor did he help them. The subject cannot be dropped.
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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 living in this colony.
For the last eight years reaches from the past to now, which takes the present perfect continuous: have been living.
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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 my wife has got.
A month ago is a finished past time, so the verb is the simple past: my wife got a new job. The present perfect cannot take a definite past time expression.
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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: C
The error is in to working within deadline.
Deadline is countable and needs an article or a plural: within a deadline, or to meeting deadlines.
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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 want to visit.
The subject is a group, a collective noun treated here as one body, so the verb is singular: a group of friends wants to visit.
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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: D
There is no error.
After leaving his office is a correctly formed participial phrase attached to he, and went directly to a restaurant is idiomatic.
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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: D
There is no error.
In a hurry takes its article, had an appointment is the right past tense, and the company's director is correctly possessive.
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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 have been organised.
The subject is a body, which is singular: a body of volunteers has been organised.
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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 when I get a cold.
Catch is the verb used with cold: when I catch a cold. Get a cold is heard, but catch is the idiom the question tests, and the rest of the sentence is a general truth in the present.
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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 little tea.
Still points to some tea remaining, so a little is required. Little without the article would mean hardly any, contradicting still.
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