Spotting Errors
Direction: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The alphabet number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, then the answer is E.
- If I was you (A) I would not have (B)/ committed (C)/ this blunder (D)/No error (E).
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Say, 'If I had been you'. This is a conditional structure.
Correct Option: A
Say, 'If I had been you'. This is a conditional structure.
- Not one of the hundreds (A)/ of striking workers (B)/ were allowed to go (C)/ near the factory (D)/ No error (E).
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Say, 'was instead of 'were'. The subject 'not one' is singular.
Correct Option: C
Say, 'was instead of 'were'. The subject 'not one' is singular.
- Did you see (A)/ any of the child (B)/ when you were (C)/ in the garden? (D)/ No error (E).
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Write 'children' instead of 'child'.
Correct Option: B
Write 'children' instead of 'child'.
- The boy asked (A)/ his father, why (B)/ he cutting (C)/ down the tree (D)/ No error (E).
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Write 'was' after 'he'. (See the rules for Reported speech)
Correct Option: C
Write 'was' after 'he'. (see the rules for Reported speech)
- He walked (A)/ quick so that (B)/ he would not (C)/ be late (D) No error (E).
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Write 'quickly' instead of 'quick'. Quick' is an adjective, and hence can't qualify a verb (walked).
Correct Option: B
Write 'quickly' instead of 'quick'. Quick' is an adjective, and hence can't qualify a verb (walked).
