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 wherever it may lead.
The pronoun refers to hunches and data, which are plural: wherever they may lead.
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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 have paid.
The subject is each one, which is singular: each one of the boys has paid. Each, every, either and neither always take a singular verb.
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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 that can penetrate into the biological tissue.
Penetrate is transitive and takes no preposition: penetrate biological tissue. And tissue in this general sense 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 I would contact you.
Had I known is the inverted third conditional, so the main clause takes would have contacted. Would contact belongs with if I knew.
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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 did I call.
The clause after asked is a reported question and takes statement order with no auxiliary: why I had called him a rogue.
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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 were you.
The two halves of the alternative question must be parallel. The second half is you had to do it, a statement, so the first should match - or the second should be inverted to did you have to do 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 person which was.
Which is used of things; a person takes who or that. The verb should also be the person who was recommended.
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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 what does Professor Dhavan.
The question asks about a reason, so the word is why, not what. What would need an object for spend to take.
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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.
The presumption that ... is not correct is correctly framed, and take interest in is idiomatic beside understand.
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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 bigger than any city.
Shanghai is itself a city, so the comparison must exclude it: bigger than any other city. Without other the sentence says Shanghai is bigger than itself.
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