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Common Errors Online Test

  • This is an online quiz to test your knowledge of Common Errors in English.
  • This Online Test is useful for academic and competitive exams.
  • Multiple answer choices are given for each question in this test. You have to choose the best option.
  • After completing the test, you can see your result.
  • There are 10 questions in the test.
  • There is no negative marking for wrong answers.
  • There is no specified time to complete this test.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The cruel king believed (a)/ in punishing the prisoners (b)/ until they did not (c)/ confessed their crime. (d)

It should be 'until they' in place of 'until they did not' because two negatives are not used together. Both until and did not are negatives.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

He would (a)/ never have taken the job if he had been knowing (b)/ what great demands (c)/ it would make on his time. (d)

Present perfect continuous tense is employed when the work continue till the present. The given sentence on the other hand suggests that the work should have happened at some time in the past, so the tense used should be Past Perfect, ‘had known’ not ‘had been knowing’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

With regard to implementation, the (a)/ details of the proposal (b)/ the committee was (c)/ divided in its opinion. (d)

Replace ‘was’ with ‘were’.In collective nouns (committee, audience, government, etc) we use singular if referring to an entity.'Committee' is used as a plural noun here, since each one has a different opinion.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

In the past two decades, (a)/ preventive measures have (b)/ drastically reduced the (c)/ occurrence of polio in children. (d)

It should be ‘had’ in place of ‘have’ in the second part of the sentence because the sentence is in past tense.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

To promote India as (a)/ a tourist destination (b)/ the government has organized (c)/ many cultural programmes. (d)

Replace ‘the government is organizing’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

Since I was doing (a)/ my MBA initially (b)/ chose to specialize (c)/ in marketing management. (d)

Delete ‘my’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

Majority of the banks (a)/ today uses technology (b)/ to reach out to those (c)/ living in rural areas. (d)

Replace ‘uses’ with ‘use’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The manager’s belief that (a)/ Ramesh is (b)/ incompetent is not (c)/ necessary true. (d)

Replace ‘necessarily true’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The actress was ordered for (a)/ wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and (b)/ submit to random weekly drug testing after (c)/ she failed to appear for a court date last week. (d)

It should be ‘to’ in place of ‘for’ in the first part of the sentence.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

During the interview (a)/ the panel asked me (b)/ several technical questions (c)/ and I answered all of it. (d)

It should be ‘and I answered all of them’ to properly express cause and effect in the sentence.

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