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 why he replied in negative.
The idiom takes the definite article: in the negative, in the affirmative. Without it the phrase is incomplete.
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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 on the 9th September on five o'clock.
At is the preposition for a point of time on the clock - at five o'clock. On is used for days and dates, which the first half of the phrase has right.
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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 enjoyed thoroughly.
Enjoy is transitive and needs an object; when no other object is meant it takes the reflexive: they enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
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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 to have remembered for a longer period of time.
The two infinitives after enables must be parallel and active: to learn more quickly and to remember for longer. The perfect infinitive puts the remembering before the learning.
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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 if I can lend him my Parker pen.
The reporting verb asked is past, so can becomes could. The tense of the reported clause shifts back with the reporting verb.
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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 more than one and half hour.
The phrase needs its article and its plural: more than one and a half hours. Any quantity greater than one takes the plural noun.
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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 within hundred yards.
Hundred takes an article or another determiner before it: within a hundred yards. And distance from a place is expressed with of, not from, after within.
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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 but his mother also.
The two clauses are in contrast, so but is right, but also belongs with a positive addition. The sentence means his mother, though very weak, is out of danger - also has nothing to add to.
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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 police broke upon the robbers.
The phrasal verb wanted is broke in upon, or came upon. Break upon alone is used of daylight or of a realisation, not of surprising people.
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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 concessive clause is correctly formed, the verbs agree, and either ... or joins two parallel noun phrases at the end.
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