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 as merry a band of children as I have ever seen before or since.
The main verb came is past, so the comparison must be past too: as I had ever seen. Have ever seen brings the standpoint to the present, which the rest of the sentence does not share.
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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 what should a science of mental life be.
This is an indirect question and takes statement word order: what a science of mental life should be. Inversion belongs only to direct questions.
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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 has to see a doctor.
The sentence is about a future arrangement, and the parallel verbs are is not coming and is having; the third should match - and has to see is a present obligation, where the sense wants he has to go and see a doctor. The clause as it stands breaks the sequence.
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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.
The news is uncountable and takes a singular verb, has been published is correctly passive, and the if-clause takes the present simple with will in the main clause.
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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 reason Ram.
The reason ... is because is a redundancy, since reason and because both give the cause. The sentence needs the reason why Ram is absent is that he is unwell.
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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 that India have produced.
India as a country is singular, so the verb is has produced. Have would be right only if India were being treated as the team, which the sentence's finest batsmen does not require.
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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 thief broke in the.
Break into is the phrasal verb for entering by force - broke into the house. Break in without an object means to interrupt or to train a horse.
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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 know who you want.
The pronoun is the object of to see, so the object form is required: whom you want to see. The question is also indirect and correctly keeps statement order.
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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 will mind if.
The reporting verb said is past, so the reported will becomes would. The sequence of tenses applies throughout the reported clause.
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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 he looked after his aunt.
The sense is that the aunt cared for the orphaned boy, so the verb must be passive: he was looked after by his aunt. As written the sentence reverses who cared for whom.
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