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: C
The error is in we can end.
Hostilities in that area is what is meant, so the sentence needs end the hostilities in that area - the article is missing and of is the wrong preposition in the following part.
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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 schools in that area which.
The sentence has no main verb: the relative clause which had English as a medium of instruction absorbs it. Dropping which leaves schools in that area had English, which is a sentence.
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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 have had to work.
The rest of the sentence is past - before it could start functioning - so the verb must be past: I had to work.
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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 appreciating the method.
Two verbs joined by and must take the same form: we admired ... and appreciated. A participle cannot be coordinated with a finite 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: C
Correct answer: who never fails
In the pattern “one of those who”, the relative pronoun refers back to the plural “those”, not to “one”, so the verb must be plural: “who never fail”. The sense is that among people who never fail to help, he is one.
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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 would have certainly helped.
The main clause has no subject. Had I come to know is the inverted third conditional, and the result clause needs its own subject: I would certainly have helped.
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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 whatever he was.
Today points to the present, so the verb must be present: whatever he is today. The relative pronoun should also be what rather than whatever for a single identity.
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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.
A negative comparison of equality takes so ... as in careful usage: no girl is so sprightly as your daughter.
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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: E
There is no error.
Succeed in takes a gerund, admirably is correctly placed, and raise money for is idiomatic.
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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 but also for preparing.
Not only ... but also must join parallel elements. For preparing comes before not only, so it governs both halves: not only the main report but also the agenda notes. Repeating for breaks the balance.
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