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 since India has gained Independence.
A clause introduced by since takes the simple past when it names the point of departure: since India gained independence. The present perfect belongs in the main clause, where it already is.
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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 he ensured his bank manager.
Assure is used of people, ensure of outcomes and insure of risks. He assured his bank manager 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 but the organic necessity.
The parallel is with a privilege, which is indefinite, so the second term must be too: but an organic necessity.
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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 at great length.
The idiom is none the wiser, and the fault marked here is the missing none in the third part; at great length is idiomatic in itself, so the sentence's real defect is that not the wiser should read none the wiser.
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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 he will end up his work.
End up means to arrive at a state one did not intend. The verb wanted is finish, or wind up his work.
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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 but I wish to.
Even though already marks the contrast, so but doubles it. English uses one connective or the other, never both.
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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 why I had not seen him the previous day.
Enquire takes of before the person questioned - he enquired of me - so the fault begins in the first part; and the reported clause correctly keeps statement order and the past perfect.
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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 was there.
Many a time in the past sits better with the present perfect, which links repeated past occasions to the present: I have been there many a time.
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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 quarrelled between themselves.
Between is used of two; with four sons the word is among. Quarrelled among themselves is the correct form.
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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 three clauses are correctly joined, the past tenses agree, and persuade takes an object and an infinitive.
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