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Category: Grammar
Topic: Spotting Errors
Exercise: Spotting Errors - 1
Questions: 53

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

Question 1

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A One of the members

B expressed doubt if

C the Minister was an atheist.

D No error.

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Question 2

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A Do the roses in your garden smell

B more sweetly

C than those in ours?

D No error.

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Question 3

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A My papa is

B in bad mood

C today

D No error.

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Question 4

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A The students were

B awaiting for

C the arrival of the chief guest.

D No error.

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Question 5

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A Block of Residential flats

B are coming up

C near our house.

D No error

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Question 6

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A We discussed about the problem so thoroughly

B on the eve of the examination

C that I found it very easy to work it out.

D No error.

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Question 7

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A The Indian radio

B which was previously controlled by the British rulers

C is free now from the narrow vested interests.

D No error.

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Question 8

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A The warden

B forbade the student

C from leaving the hostel.

D No error.

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Question 9

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A If I had known

B this yesterday

C I will have helped him.

D No error.

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Question 10

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A If you lend him a book

B he will lend it to some one else

C and never you will get it back.

D No error.

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