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: D
There is no error.
With two people the comparative is used, and elder is the correct form for members of a family. The elder is 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: A
The error is in I was to about.
The words are transposed: I was about to go out. About to expresses imminent action and cannot be split.
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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
The error is in with this month.
An increment takes effect from a month: with effect from this month. With alone does not express the starting point.
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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 office receive an important letter.
The sentence is past, so the verb must be received. Receive also needs its singular form to agree with office.
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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 were not laid deep.
The main clause is present - no country can endure - so the if-clause must be present too: if its foundations are not laid deep. And material prosperity takes no article.
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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 which would inform.
The telegram had not yet arrived, so the clause looks forward from a past standpoint and needs the infinitive of purpose: a telegram to inform him whether he would go or not. As written, would inform is left without a completed sequence in the clause that follows.
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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 see you.
The sentence is about a future visit, so the verb must be future: I shall see you in Kanpur during my next visit.
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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 not have.
Ought is always followed by to: he ought not to have done such a thing.
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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 we have keep.
The auxiliary have requires the past participle: we have kept our promise.
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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 if I would have left the compartment.
Would never appears in the if-clause of a conditional. The third conditional takes the past perfect there: if I had left the compartment.
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