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 he was in such hurry.
Hurry is countable in this expression and takes the article: in such a hurry. The same is true of in a hurry and in a temper.
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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 on next Wednesday.
Next Wednesday takes no preposition - next, last, this and every before a time word make an adverbial by themselves.
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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 play.
Know is followed by how to before a skill: do you know how to play the guitar. Know to do is not English.
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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 few scientists changed.
The comparison reaches to the present, so the present perfect is needed: few scientists have changed people's ideas. The simple past would close the matter off in the past.
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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 the course provide.
The subject is the course, singular, so the verb is provides.
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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 he hanged his head.
Hanged is used only of execution; in every other sense the past tense is hung. He hung his head in shame.
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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 was broadcasted over.
Broadcast is unchanged in the past tense and past participle: was broadcast. It follows cast, which behaves the same way.
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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 the meeting adjourned abruptly.
The chairman adjourned the meeting, so the verb must be passive: the meeting was adjourned abruptly by the chairman. As written the meeting adjourned itself.
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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
There is no error.
Put up an advertisement is idiomatic, the present perfect suits an action with present effect, and all over the country is correctly formed.
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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 money.
Little without an article means hardly any, which is not what one asks to borrow. A little means some, and that is the sense wanted.
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