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: D
There is no error.
The presumption that ... is not correct is correctly framed, and take interest in is idiomatic beside understand.
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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 bigger than any city.
Shanghai is itself a city, so the comparison must exclude it: bigger than any other city. Without other the sentence says Shanghai is bigger than itself.
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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 isn't it?
The tag repeats the subject as a pronoun and uses the statement's auxiliary. The statement is Sheela has scored, so the tag is hasn't she.
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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 at the moment the house.
The burgling and the party were simultaneous past events, so the sentence needs the past continuous in the main clause - the family were attending a night party. At the moment when is also the fuller form of the conjunction.
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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 the train left.
Scarcely pairs with when, not than, and the second clause should read when the train left. No sooner is the one that takes than.
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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 that he had hand in the cruel murder of his wife.
Have a hand in is the idiom and needs its article: he had a hand in the murder.
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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 one of my favourite actor.
One of always selects from a group, so the noun must be plural: one of my favourite actors. The verb is then correctly singular.
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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 for the health and happiness.
Ensure is transitive and takes no preposition: ensures the health and happiness of every individual. Ensure for is not English.
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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 and the rivers have overflown their banks.
The past participle of overflow is overflowed; overflown belongs to fly. And the event followed last night's rain, so the simple past overflowed is the right tense as well as the right form.
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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.
Every motorist knows takes the singular verb, the parenthesis is correctly punctuated, and neither ... nor joins two parallel noun phrases.
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