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 because they persisted to suggest.
Persist takes in and a gerund: persisted in suggesting. It never takes an infinitive.
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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 you listen with.
Listen takes to: if you listen to the question carefully. And the pronoun in the last clause is plural, so the sentence needs questions.
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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 past time thus.
Pass is the verb and past the preposition or adjective. To pass time thus is what the sentence needs.
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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 a hundred-rupees note.
A compound modifier before a noun keeps its first element singular: a hundred-rupee note. The same rule gives a five-year-old child and a ten-mile walk.
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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 myself and Gopal.
Myself is reflexive or emphatic and cannot be the subject of a sentence; the subject form is I. Convention also puts the other person first: Gopal and I.
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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.
It is the newspaper that is a correctly formed cleft sentence, and expose to is the right construction.
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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.
Both halves of the comparison use the same construction, the verbs agree with their singular subjects, and per minute is correctly repeated.
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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 too many books.
Too many carries a criticism - more than one should. The sentence means a large number, so it needs many, or a great many.
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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 should.
He was sure reports a confident expectation, so the reported clause takes would: that he would win the prize. Should expresses obligation or a weaker expectation.
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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.
Too ... to is correctly formed, and the sense - so intelligent that he does not make mistakes - is what the construction gives.
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