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Spotting Errors Test - 4
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Spotting Errors Test - 4

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  • Question 1/10
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    Directions:  Spot the error in the underlined  part of the sentence and choose the correct sentence accordingly.

    There are two pieces to Mr  Keats 'argument: that English is open-source as other languages are not: and that is why it has spread.

     

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    • A colon correctly introduces the list of ideas. Thesemicolon  in its place is incorrect.
    • Dashes (option 3) are incorrect because the idea (between the dashes) is not parenthetical .
    • The second 'that ' is necessary to maintain parallelism.
    • The possessive of Keats can be either Keats 'or Keats 's.

     

     

  • Question 2/10
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    Directions : Spot the error in the underlined part of the sentence and choose the correct sentence accordingly.

    There has been heightened concern among India 's civil society about the threats for the environment caused by the pressures of development and industrialization.

     

    Solutions

     

     

    • 'Among ' vs'Within ' , the latter is a better preposition in the context.
    • 'Threats to the environment ' is idiomatically correct.
    • There is no need to change 'India 's civil society '.

     

     

  • Question 3/10
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    Directions:  Spot the error in the underlined  part of the sentence and choose the correct sentence accordingly.

    Dussehra  is now celebrated across Karnataka as a State festival with an exquisitely unique blend of the religious and the secularism.

     

    Solutions

     

     

    • Exquisite and unique together becomes redundant . The religious and the secular is parallel (both adjectives).
    • In unique, U is a vowel word, but in this U sound as "yoo "or "you "which is consonant sound. So, unique is not starting with a vowel sound, using "an "ahead of it will be wrong.

     

     

  • Question 4/10
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    Directions:  In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and mark the appropriate letter (1), (2) and (3). If there is no error, mark (4).

    Please send (1) / the letter on(2) / my business address. (3) / No error (4)

     

    Solutions

     

     

    Here, the word  on   will be replaced with the word to.

    The new sentence would be "Please send the letter to  my business address."

     

     

  • Question 5/10
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    Directions: In each of the following questions, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of the sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation, and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

    A. Sometimes, we think we are only the people with problems.
    B. Our problems override other considerations; we can 't think beyond our own expectations.
    C. When we see a small dampness on our wall we scurry to get them repaired and corrected.
    D. But we don 't think of people whose homes have been washed away by the rage of the rain gods.

     

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    • In A 'only ' is misplaced. It should be like  "we are the only people with problems ".
    • In C, the pronoun 'them ' is inconsistent ( in number) with its antecedent 'with small dampness '. 'It ' is the correct pronoun.
    • B and D are the only correct sentences.

     

     

  • Question 6/10
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    Directions:  In each of the following questions, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of the sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation, and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

    A. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean.
    B. The patch extends over a very wide area, with estimates ranging from area.
    C. The size of the state of Texas to one larger as the continental United States.
    D. However, the exact size is unknown.

     

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    • In A - 'gyre 'needs a determiner before that 'a gyre ' would be correct.
    • In B - 'ranging from an area ' would be correct.'
    • In C - 'as large as ' or'larger than ' would correct the part, "larger as "is incorrect.

     

     

  • Question 7/10
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    Directions:  In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and mark the appropriate letter (1), (2) and (3). If there is no error, mark (4).

    Many people who are otherwise (1) / law-abide citizens (2) / break traffic rules knowingly. (3) / No error (4)

     

    Solutions

     

     

    Here, law-abide   should be replaced by  law-abiding. 

    The new sentence would be, "Many people who are otherwise law-abiding citizens break traffic rules knowingly."

     

     

  • Question 8/10
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    Directions:  In each of the following questions, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of the sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation, and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

    A. One of the classroom exercise I conduct with my Persuasive Communication students.
    B. At IIMA is taken from Kurukshetra war.
    C. I ask a student to be Kunti, other to be Karna.
    D. Kunti has to persuade Karna  to leave Duryodhana and join the Pandavas.
    A paragraph has been broken up into four different parts. Which of the parts has no error?

     

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    • A should be corrected to 'one of the classroom  exercises '.
    • B has to include the definite article "the Kurukshetra war " .
    • C should be corrected "another to be Karna " .
    • D has no error.

     

     

  • Question 9/10
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    Directions:  In each of the following questions, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of the sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation, and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

    A. Three years have passed since Dr Ira Kalish, global research head, Deloitte, visited India.
    B. But the changes in modern trade are all too apparent to Kalish.
    C. There has been well-publicised expansions and scale backs.
    D. Some have taken a fall, and others picked pace.

     

    Solutions

     

     

    The verb in C must be "there have been "  and in D, the correct idiom would be "picked up pace " .

     

     

  • Question 10/10
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    Directions:  In each of the following questions, there are four sentences or parts of sentences that form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) of the sentence(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling, punctuation, and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option.

    A. NRIs does not include a person who has gone out of India on employment, business or vocation.
    B. Or any other purpose for an uncertain period.
    C. Also, a person who has come to stay in India other than employment.
    D. Business or vocation, or on any other purpose for an uncertain period.

     

    Solutions

     

     

    • A is incorrect in NRIs does not, it should be NRIs do not . 
    • B is incorrect as the preposition is missing "on employment etc  is correct, but on cannot be applied to 'or on any other purpose "hence a new preposition needs to be inserted . E.g., "for any other purpose ".
    • C also misses the preposition —other than for , on employment will be correct.
    • D is incorrect as instead of "on any other purpose "- "for any other purpose " would be correct.

     

     

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