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: A
The error is in the police broke upon the robbers.
The phrasal verb wanted is broke in upon, or came upon. Break upon alone is used of daylight or of a realisation, not of surprising people.
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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.
The concessive clause is correctly formed, the verbs agree, and either ... or joins two parallel noun phrases at the end.
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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
There is no error.
Is getting fatter is the correct present continuous for a change in progress, and does not take exercise at all is a properly formed negative.
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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.
None but means no one except, and is a correct and idiomatic construction. He loved none but his neighbour's daughter needs no change.
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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 caught, convicted the hung.
The three verbs must be parallel and joined by and: caught, convicted and hanged. Hanged is the form used of execution; hung is used of pictures and coats.
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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 go to Agra.
Think of takes a gerund, because of is a preposition: I am thinking of going to Agra.
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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
There is no error.
The comparative more and more is correctly formed, the tenses agree across the clauses, and fall back on is the right phrasal verb for relying on something in reserve.
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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 that he would rather fail than copying.
Would rather takes the bare infinitive on both sides of than: would rather fail than copy. The gerund breaks the parallel.
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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 I had hoped to have met him yesterday.
The perfect infinitive after had hoped doubles the pastness. Had hoped already places the hope in the past, so the infinitive stays plain: I had hoped to meet him.
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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 isn't it?
A question tag repeats the subject as a pronoun and uses the auxiliary of the statement. The statement is you will come, so the tag is won't you.
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