Spotting Errors-Solved Questions and Answers
Spotting Errors is the process of identifying and correcting grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or logical mistakes in a given sentence or passage.
Spotting Errors questions and answers are provided below for you to learn and practice.
Question 1:
(a) The infletion rate
(b) is currently high in India
(c) NO ERROR
Answer: (a) "inflation" is the correct spelling.
Question 2:
(a) She was my class teacher
(b) and she didn't went
(c) to the school yesterday
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (b) only the 1st form of the main verb is used with 'did', it should be "go" instead of "went".
Question 3:
(a) Seema is not smarter
(b) then my brother
(c) when it comes
(d) to playing chess
(e) NO ERROR
Answer: (b) to show comparisons, we use "than".
Question 4:
(a) It has been
(b) proved multiple times
(c) that Riya is a honest girl
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (c) "an" should be used because 'h' is silent while pronouncing honest and it gives a vowel sound of 'o'.
Question 5:
(a) The inspector asked Rahul
(b) to report to the police station
(c) as soon as he comes from office
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (c) "came" should be used because the first half of the sentence is in the past tense.
Question 6:
(a) My mother was reading
(b) times of india newspaper and
(c) she found a really scary news
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (b) "the Times of India" because it is a proper noun and 'the' is always used with its name.
Question 7:
(a) Whose did you
(b) bump into at there
(c) party yesterday
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (a) "Whom" because it is being used as an object, (b); "their" used as a possessive adjective and not to denote a place/position.
Question 8:
(a) I could not reach there
(b) because it had been
(c) raining for last night
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (c) "since" is used to denote the point of time.
Question 9:
(a) Although she is facing hardships
(b) in her life rather
(c) she never deviates
(d) from the path of truthfulness
(e) NO ERROR
Answer: (b) "yet" is used with the conjunctions - 'although' or 'though'.
Question 10:
(a) Seeing Aditya involved upon
(b) the murder case, his friends
(c) are turning hostile
(d) NO ERROR
Answer: (a) "in" is the correct preposition and not 'upon', (c); "had turned" as the event is in past tense.
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