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 regretfully, profits earned by your company.
Regretfully means with regret and describes how someone acts; the sentence means it is to be regretted, which is regrettably. Profits cannot feel regret.
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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 Indian industry in fighting pollution.
The comparison is with other industries, so the second term must exclude the first: more than any other Indian industry. The sentence as split needs that other to make the comparison possible.
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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 going everyday.
A habitual action takes the present simple: he goes every day. Everyday as one word is an adjective meaning ordinary; the adverbial phrase is two words.
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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 five day week.
A compound modifier before a noun is hyphenated and its first element stays singular: a five-day week. The article is needed too.
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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 she will be promoted.
The if-clause of a first conditional takes the present simple - if she is promoted. Will belongs in the main clause, which already has 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: A
The error is in if I were him.
The verb to be takes a subject complement, so the pronoun is he: if I were he. The subjunctive were is correctly used for an unreal condition.
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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 looking back, I find that among the many impressions of the people of India.
The sentence needs a subject for absorbed to modify - the impressions I absorbed. As written the participle has nothing to attach to and the main clause loses its subject.
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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
There is no error.
The first conditional is correctly formed with the present simple in the if-clause and will in the main clause, and in examinations takes no article in this general sense.
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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 he read anything on the subject.
It was the first time takes the past perfect: the first time he had read anything on the subject. The construction always looks back from the point 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: C
The error is in she will do it.
The reporting verb said is past, so will becomes would. The if-clause has already shifted to was doing, and the main clause must follow.
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