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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?

A man along with (a)/ his wife and two children (b)/ were rescued with the help (c)/ of an army helicopter. (d)

It should be ‘was’ in place of ‘were’ in the third part of the sentence because the subject is singular.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

Delhi is definitely (a)/ one of the (b)/ most large (c)/ cities in the world. (d)

The superlative degree for the verb large is ‘largest’ not ‘most large’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

Since I had lived there (a)/ for many years the villagers (b)/ were very comfortable talked (c)/ to me about their problems. (d)

It should be ‘comfortably’ in place of ‘comfortable’ in the third part of sentence. An adverb is used to modify a verb. Here ‘talked’ is a verb.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

He was a (a)/ well known economist (b)/ who usual wrote (c)/ for international journals. (d)

Replace ‘usual’ with ‘usually’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The revised government’s (a)/ guidelines have reduced (b)/ the number of mergers (c)/ taking place among banks. (d)

Replace ‘the government’s revised’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

Veena wanted to (a)/ become a surgeon (b)/ and worked very hardly (c)/ to achieve this. (d)

The word ‘hardly’ means: almost no; almost not; almost none. Therefore, Instead of the phrase ‘and worked very hardly’ we should use ‘and worked very hard (Adverb)’.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

Many people believe that (a)/ the nationalisation of banks in (b)/ the 1960s have protected India (c)/ from the current financial crisis. (d)

It should be ‘has’ in place of ‘have’ in the third part of the sentence because the subject is nationalisation.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The graceful folk dance had performed (a)/ so beautifully by a dance group that nobody (b)/ seemed to notice that (c)/ the show was two-and-a-half hours long! (d)

It should be ‘was’ in place of ‘had’ in the first part of the sentence because the sentence is in passive voice.

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The fire that gutted (a)/ years for research in the chemistry and biochemistry labs (b)/ of the University building was (c)/ due to a short circuit. (d)

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

Which part of the following sentence contains a grammatical error?

The company’s decision to issue (a)/ bonus shares clearly indicates (b)/ the management’s confident (c)/ about the future. (d)

It should be ‘confidence’ in place of ‘confident’ in the third part of the sentence.

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