COMMON ERRORS
Direction: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is No error.
- Long life is good if one be happy and has friends.
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Here, if one is happy is the right usage.
Correct Option: B
Here, if one is happy is the right usage.
- Had you participated in the drawing competition, you would have won the first prize.
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No error
Correct Option: A
No error
- He went to the doctor because he had not been feeling well since several weeks.
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To express, period of time, for should be used. Hence, for several weeks is the right usage.
Correct Option: B
To express, period of time, for should be used. Hence, for several weeks is the right usage.
- Before we returned from swimming in the river near the camp, someone had stole our clothes, and we had to walk back with our towels around us.
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Structure of sentence in Past Perfect : Subject + had + v3 (Past Participle). Hence, someone had stolen our clothes is the right usage.
Correct Option: D
Structure of sentence in Past Perfect : Subject + had + v3 (Past Participle). Hence, someone had stolen our clothes is the right usage.
Direction: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is No error.
- He needs not have shouted at me that way.
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with a Singular Subject, need not is used. Hence, He need is the right usage.
Correct Option: C
with a Singular Subject, need not is used. Hence, He need is the right usage.