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: C
The error is in when I shall reach New Delhi.
A time clause introduced by when takes the present simple for a future event - when I reach New Delhi. The futurity is carried by shall in the main clause.
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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 we witnessed a collusion.
A collision is a crash; collusion is secret cooperation for a dishonest purpose. The two are one letter apart.
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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 is not attending his office.
For the last one month reaches from the past to now, which takes the present perfect continuous: has not been attending. The present continuous covers only the present moment.
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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 couldn't but help.
The two idioms are could not but do and could not help doing. Running them together gives couldn't but help, which is a mixture of both and belongs to neither.
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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 if you will ask him.
The if-clause of a first conditional takes the present simple: if you ask him. Will belongs in the main clause, which already has it.
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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 brand proposition now therefore had to be that Keokarpin Antiseptic Cream is more effective.
More effective is a comparative with nothing to compare against - the sentence never says more effective than what.
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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.
Will you please buy is a correctly formed polite request, the if-clause takes the present simple, and jaggery is uncountable so it needs no article.
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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 were not competent to do the job efficiently.
The subject is the group, a collective noun treated here as a single body, so the verb is singular: was not competent.
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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 ten rupee's note will not buy you.
A compound modifier before a noun takes no possessive and no plural - a ten-rupee note, a five-year-old child, a three-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: B
The error is in to do it.
Persist takes in and a gerund - he persisted in doing it. It never takes an infinitive.
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