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 got drowned in the Pacific Ocean.
Drown is used of living things; a ship is wrecked, sunk or foundered. And drowned is already passive in sense - got drowned doubles 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 I could not put up in a hotel.
Put up at is the idiom for staying somewhere - put up at a hotel. Put up with means to tolerate, which is a different phrasal verb altogether.
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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 is free now from the narrow vested interests.
Vested interests is a general expression and takes no definite article here, and the adverb sits better as is now free. The article makes the phrase point to particular interests the sentence has not named.
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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 will have helped him.
The if-clause is had known, a past perfect, so the sentence is a third conditional and the main clause must take would have helped. Will never appears in this pattern.
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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 behalf of the railways.
On behalf of means acting for someone. What is meant here is on the part of, which attributes the fault to the railways 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 expressed doubt if.
Doubt is followed by whether, or by that in a negative sentence. If introduces a condition, not the content of a doubt.
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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 have got.
The sentence names a past year, 1988, so the verb must be the simple past: I got. The present perfect cannot be used with a finished time expression.
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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.
Having received your letter is a perfect participle correctly attached to we, the subject of the main clause, and the same in the sense of the same letter is acceptable in commercial style.
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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 and never you will get it back.
When never is placed at the front of a clause the subject and auxiliary invert - and never will you get it back. Without inversion the word order 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: B
The error is in it is meek and humble.
Adjectives used as nouns for a class take the definite article: the meek and the humble. Without it the sentence has no subject for who shall inherit.
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