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Spot the Error Mock Test - 17
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1)(A) There is no rule/ (B) regarding the length of a precis/ (C) with relation to/ (D) that of the original passage.
Ans- (c) ‘with relation to’ must be changed into ‘in relation to’.
2)(A) One should keep/ (B) his promise/ (C) if one wants respect from both friends and enemies/(D) No error.
Ans- (b) Use one’s in place of ‘his’. ‘Ones’ is the possessive case of ‘one’.
3)(A) He denied/ (B) to help/ (C) me./ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) Change ‘help’ into ‘helping’. Gerund comes after ‘deny’.
4)(A) Patience as well as perseverance (B) are necessary/ (C) for success./ (D) No error
Ans- (b) When two subjects are joined by ‘as well as', the verb agrees with the 1st subject 'Patience' is a singular subject and hence will take singular verb 'is'.
5)(A) Had I known him, / (B) I would allow him / (C) to enter my house. / (D) No error
Ans- (b) Change ‘I would allow' into 'I would have allowed him’. The sentence fits in the formula given below:
Had + S+ V3, S+ would + have + V3
6)(A) We must try /(B) to save our hardly /(C) earned money/(D) No error.
Ans- (b) Change ‘hardly’ into ‘hard’.
7)(A) The fan’s blade / (B) has broken/ (C) and we must buy a new fan before disposing it of./ (D) No error.
Ans- (a) Change ‘fan's blade’ into ‘blade of fan’.
8)(A) Honest are / (B) rewarded / (C) sooner or later / (D) no error.
Ans- (a) ‘Honest’ is an adjective but becomes a plural common noun when article ‘the’ is used before it. ‘The honest’ means honest people.
9)(A) The circulation of The Statesman/ (B) is greater than/ (C) that of any newspaper/ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Use ‘any other newspaper’. ‘Any newspaper includes ‘The Statesmen’.
10)(A) John suggested to/ (B) the children of his village that they should/ (C) go to the school regularly and do their home work sincerely./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Here ‘school’ is mentioned in relation to its primary purpose. Hence no article will be used.
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