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 are indicated.
The subject is the number, singular, so the verb is is indicated. Marks carried by each question is a prepositional phrase between subject and verb and does not affect the agreement.
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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.
There is no question of takes a gerund, and the possessive before it - of my failing - is correct.
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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 a friends.
The article a cannot stand before a plural noun. The sentence needs either a friend or friends, depending on the sense.
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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 must have a house.
It is necessary that takes the subjunctive, which uses the bare form of the verb: that everybody have a house. Must duplicates the necessity already stated.
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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 as they interfere in serious study.
Interfere with means to hinder; interfere in means to meddle in someone's affairs. Study is hindered, so with is required.
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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 some of the improvised fabrics and garments fabricated out from them.
Improvised means made up on the spur of the moment; the word wanted is improved. And fabricated out from is redundant - made from or fabricated from suffices.
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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 both of you two.
Both already means the two, so two is redundant: both of you. The same doubling appears in both the twins.
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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 we took a hasty breakfast.
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: C
The error is in the hospital near my house.
The comparison is between two sets of charges, so the second term must match: than those in the hospital near my house. As written it compares charges with a building.
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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 without anyone being able control it.
Able takes to before the infinitive: being able to control it. The preposition cannot be dropped.
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