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 when I get a cold.
Catch is the verb used with cold: when I catch a cold. Get a cold is heard, but catch is the idiom the question tests, and the rest of the sentence is a general truth in the present.
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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 tea.
Still points to some tea remaining, so a little is required. Little without the article would mean hardly any, contradicting still.
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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 eight kilometres in a litre.
Fuel consumption takes to: eight kilometres to a litre, or to the litre. In would describe something contained in the litre.
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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 entered into the room.
Enter is transitive and takes no preposition when it means to go into a place: we entered the room. Enter into is used of agreements and discussions.
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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 can I lend.
Lend is to give; borrow is to take. The speaker wants the pencil, so the verb is borrow: can I borrow your pencil.
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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 we have been looking for a suitable alliance for three years.
The wedding took place last month, so the searching is over: we had been looking for three years. The present perfect continuous would mean the search still goes on.
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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.
As much ... as is correctly paired, weightage is standard in Indian English, and the verbs agree throughout.
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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 am hearing.
Hear is a verb of involuntary perception and is not normally used in the continuous. The sentence needs I hear, or I have been hearing if repetition is meant.
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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 unless you stop to make noise at once.
Stop takes a gerund when it means to cease: stop making a noise. Stop to do means to pause in order to do it - the opposite of what is meant.
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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.
Hungry is a two-syllable adjective that takes more rather than -er in comparison, and than she is correctly completes it with the subject form.
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