SPOTTING ERRORS (GENERAL ENGLISH)

Total Questions: 55

41. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (a) The part of Madras that interested us the most
Solution:

The parts of Madras…
A verb must agree with its subject in number and person. The plural ‘parts’ fits in with the verb ‘were’. Thus, if the subject is of the Singular Number, First Person, the verb must be of the Singular Number, First Person; as, I am here. I was there. I have a bat. I play cricket.

42. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (b) of extreme important during their day
Solution:‘of extreme importance’...
‘Importance’ is a noun; ‘important’ is an adjective.

43. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (c) in water and land are found
Solution:‘and land and are found’
The cumulative conjunction ‘and’ is needed here to add one statement to another

44. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (a) Near the pond was standing
Solution:‘were standing’

45. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (c) how the brain has worked, though
Solution:‘how the brain works’. The simple present tense is needed as part (b) indicates.

46. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (c) but if everyone does their best
Solution:‘everyone does his best’

47. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (b) connecting with the profitability
Solution:‘connected with’
The past tense is to be used as part (a) indicates.

48. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (a) On entering the meeting hall
Solution:On his entering the meeting hall

49. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (a) I am sure that if you were me
Solution:‘that if you were I’

50. Identify the sentence with an error in idiom usage or syntax.

Correct Answer: (c) he had other different sources of information
Solution:other sources of information \ different sources of information.
The tautology is to be removed.