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Spot the Error Test - 1 Explanation
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Spot the Error Test - 1 Explanation
1)(A) I would rather/ (B) die/ (C) then beg./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Use 'than' in place of then
2)(A) She exclaimed with surprise / (B) that / (C) how tall has she grown./ (D) No error
Ans-(c) “How tall has she grown” is interrogative form of a sentence as 'has' has come before subject ‘she' Change “How tall has she grown” into “she had grown very tall”.
3)(A) The beautiful / (B) surrounding of the place / (C) enchanted me./ (D) No error
Ans-(b) Surrounding is the ‘ing’ form of verb ‘surround’.Use ‘Surroundings'. It means the area around someone or something
4)(A) That store/ (B) hadn’t hardly/ (C) any of those goods./ (D) No error.
Ans-(b) ‘Hardly’ is negative in meaning. ‘Not’ cannot come with ‘hardly’. ‘Had’ will come in place of ‘hadn’t'.
5)(A) The police asked us/ (B) about our movements/ (C) on a night of crime./ (D) No error.
Ans-(c) Change ‘a’ into ‘the’. Here ‘night of crime’ is definite as it was the night when the crime that the speaker is talking about took place. Hence definite article ‘the’ will be used
6)(A) Did he tell you/ (B) why he hasn’t/ (C) come yesterday?/ (D) No error
Ans-(b) Change 'He hasn't’ into ‘He hadn't'.
7)(a) I don’t know if any of the students/ (b) of our school is going/ (c) to pay any heed to the principal’s order or not./ (d) no error.
Ans- (a) change ‘if’ into ‘whether’. ‘whether....or’ is the correct pair of conjunction.
8)(A) The book/ (B) is well illustrated/ (C) and attractively bound/ (D) making altogether an attractive volume
Ans- (c) Use ‘it’ after ‘making’ as the pronoun for ‘book’ will be ‘it’.
9)(A) If he drove fast/ (B) he can reach the station / (C) in time / (D) No error
Ans- (b) Change ‘can’ to ‘could’. The sentence is in past
10)(A) I will buy / (B) the book when / (C) the revise edition will come / (D) no error.
Ans-(c) Change ‘revise’ to ‘revised’.
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