English Grammar - Spotting Errors: 115 MCQs with Answers
English Grammar- Spotting Errors
Spotting Errors – practice multiple choice questions with detailed explanations, taken from previous year HTET, CTET and other teaching recruitment exam papers.
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0%Q26. Identify the sentence with an adjective error.
Right Answer: She is more happier than before.
Explanation:
'More happier' is a double comparative error; only 'happier' should be used.
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Q28. Identify the sentence with an adjective error.
Right Answer: He is a very unique person.
Explanation:
'Unique' is an absolute adjective and should not be modified by degree words like 'very'.
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Q30. Identify the sentence with an adjective error.
Right Answer: He is taller than any boy in his class.
Explanation:
When comparing someone to the rest of a group they belong to, 'any other' must be used, not just 'any'.
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Q33. Identify the sentence with an adverb error.
Right Answer: She talks lowly.
Explanation:
'Lowly' means humble/of low status, not 'in a quiet manner'; 'quietly' is the correct word here.
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Q34. Choose the sentence with an adverb error.
Right Answer: He arrived lately.
Explanation:
'Lately' means 'recently', a different meaning from 'late' (not on time), which is needed here.
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Q35. Identify the sentence with an adverb error.
Right Answer: She works hardly every day.
Explanation:
'Hardly' means 'barely/almost not', while 'hard' means 'with effort', which is the intended meaning here.
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Q38. Identify the sentence with a verb error.
Right Answer: She has ate her lunch.
Explanation:
The past participle of 'eat' is 'eaten', not 'ate' (which is the simple past); 'has eaten' is correct.
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Q39. Choose the sentence with a verb error.
Right Answer: I seen him yesterday.
Explanation:
'Seen' is the past participle and requires an auxiliary like 'have'; the simple past 'saw' should be used here.
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Q41. Identify the sentence with a tense error.
Right Answer: I have seen him yesterday.
Explanation:
'Have seen' (present perfect) cannot be used with a specific past time marker like 'yesterday'; the simple past 'saw' should be used.
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Q43. Identify the sentence with a tense error.
Right Answer: If it will rain, we will cancel the picnic.
Explanation:
The if-clause of a first conditional sentence should use the simple present tense, not 'will'.
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Q44. Choose the sentence with a tense error.
Right Answer: By the time he arrives, we will finish already.
Explanation:
The correct form for an action completed before another future action is the future perfect 'will have finished', not simply 'will finish'.
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Q45. Identify the sentence with a tense error.
Right Answer: I am living here since 2015.
Explanation:
'Since' with a starting point requires the present perfect continuous 'have been living', not the present continuous 'am living'.
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Q48. Identify the sentence with an article error.
Right Answer: I saw a elephant at the zoo.
Explanation:
'Elephant' begins with a vowel sound, so 'an elephant' is correct, not 'a elephant'.
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Q49. Choose the sentence with an article error.
Right Answer: A sun rises in the east.
Explanation:
'The sun' is correct since 'the' is used before unique natural objects; 'a sun' is incorrect.
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Q50. Identify the sentence with an article error.
Right Answer: They live in the India.
Explanation:
Singular country names generally take no article; 'the India' is incorrect, should be simply 'India'.
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