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: B
The error is in how could she kill the wolf.
This is a reported question and takes statement word order: how she could kill the wolf. Inversion belongs to direct questions only.
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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 than butter.
Prefer takes to, not than - prefer margarine to butter. When an infinitive follows, the construction is prefer to do rather than do.
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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 take the interest in the school.
Take an interest is the idiom, with the indefinite article. The definite article points to a particular interest 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: A
The error is in at present juncture.
Juncture is countable and needs an article: at the present juncture. At present, without a noun, is the form that takes none.
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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 in preparing to meet the storm.
Busy oneself takes with before a noun and in or with before a gerund; the smoother form here is busied themselves preparing. The point marked is the redundant preposition.
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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 Troy was taken by Greeks.
The Greeks as a people takes the definite article. Nationalities used as a whole class take the - the Greeks, the French, the Dutch.
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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 much pleased.
Much does not modify an adjective directly in the affirmative; the form is very pleased, or much pleased only in older or formal English. Very is what the sentence needs.
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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 since one month.
Since takes a point in time; for takes a length of time. A month is a length, so it must be for a month, or since last month.
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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 should accept all our people as equals.
It is time is followed by the past subjunctive - it is time we accepted. Should is not used in this construction.
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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 makes.
An arithmetical statement takes is: twice twelve is twenty-four. Make is used of physical composition rather than of equality.
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