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 if I do not economic.
Economic is an adjective; the verb is economise. The if-clause also needs to match would exceed, so if I did not economise.
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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 you must put off.
Put off means to postpone. Shoes are taken off, or put off in the older sense of removing garments - the ordinary verb here is take off.
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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 his dream now is about to visit the moon.
The participle having read must attach to the person who read, but the subject is his dream. And a dream is of visiting the moon, not about to visit 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: C
The error is in and they see what his party men had seen.
The clause continues should also come, so the verb must keep the modal: and see what his party men had seen. Adding they with a present tense breaks the 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: D
There is no error.
Prejudicial to would be the commoner form, but prejudicial against is attested, and the rest of the sentence is sound; the question treats it as correct.
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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 he is wiring.
For the last four hours reaches from the past to now, which takes the present perfect continuous: he has been wiring.
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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 she walked in.
Walk into is the phrasal verb for entering a place: she walked into the room. Walk in without an object means simply to come in.
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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 he.
The main clause is would have been surprised, a third conditional, so the if-clause must be past perfect: had he seen you. Were he to see belongs with would be surprised.
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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 because they persisted to suggest.
Persist takes in and a gerund: persisted in suggesting. It never takes an infinitive.
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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 if you listen with.
Listen takes to: if you listen to the question carefully. And the pronoun in the last clause is plural, so the sentence needs questions.
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