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.
- The student requested (A)/ the principal to be enough kind (B)/ to grant him (C)/ seven days leave (D)/ No error (E).
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There is an error related to adverbs in the given sentence.
Correct Option: B
Write 'to be kind enough'. Adverb 'enough' is used after the word it qualifies.
- He has been trying (A)/ to persuade her for several months (B)/ but he has (C)/ not still succeeded (D)/ No error (E).
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There is an error related to adverbs in the given sentence.
Correct Option: D
Replace 'still' by 'yet'. 'yet' is generally used in negative sentence while 'still' is used in affirmative sentence.
- Before the game he felt surely (A)/ of wining, but within five minutes (B)/ he realised that (C)/ he was wrong (D)/ No error (E).
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There is an error related to adverbs in the given sentence.
Correct Option: A
Replace 'surely' by 'sure'.
- The amount which the company (A)/ paid to the dependents of (B)/ the deceased was (C)/ fairly unjustified (D)/ No error (E).
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There is an error related to adverbs in the given sentence.
Correct Option: D
Replace 'fairly' by 'rather'; fairly is used in positive sense.
- Although he only earns (A)/ sixteen hundred rupees per month, (B)/ yet he manages his (C)/family well (D)/ No error (E).
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There is an error related to adverbs in the given sentence.
Correct Option: A
Write, 'He earns only'. 'Only' should be used before the word it qualifies.
