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 'E'. (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 not only the judges acquitted.
When not only opens a clause the subject and auxiliary invert: not only did the judges acquit him. Without inversion the fronted not only has no effect.
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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 a working knowledge of.
The knowledge is the reader's own, already possessed and to be increased, so it takes the definite article or a possessive: your working knowledge of spoken and written 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: A
The error is in even if the doctor.
Even if introduces a hypothetical; the sentence describes what actually happened, so the concession is even though. The verb should also be put in past form to match could not succeed.
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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 soap brought in the.
The idiom is brought on to the market, or introduced into the market. Brought in the market would mean carried inside 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: B
The error is in the Indians in general is.
The Indians is plural and takes a plural verb: the Indians in general are not a vigilant people. According to me is also better as in my opinion.
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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: E
There is no error.
Honesty and integrity are two subjects joined by and, so the plural are is right, and do away with is correctly passive as cannot be done away with.
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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 Mangesh cannot be able.
Cannot and be able both express ability, so the two double each other: Mangesh will not be able to finish this 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: A
The error is in since I meet.
A clause introduced by since takes the simple past for the point of departure: since I met Dinesh last Saturday.
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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 even after worked in the office.
After is a preposition here and takes a gerund: even after working in the office for fifteen years.
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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
Correct answer: was present
With “neither ... nor”, the verb agrees with the subject nearer to it. That subject here is the plural “assistants”, so the correct form is “were present”. Reversing the two subjects would make the singular verb correct instead.
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