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Spot the Error Mock Test - 19
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1)(A) He walked/ (B) ten miles/ (C) by foot/ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) ‘on foot’ must be used ‘here’.
2)(A) The committee/ (B) could not come to/ (C) a final conclusion./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Remove ‘final’. ‘Conclusion’ is always final.
3)(A) As soon as the CEO entered the office, the/ (B) union leaders approached him/ (C) and report the matter to him./ (D) No error
Ans- (c) Change 'report' into 'reported' as the whole sentence is in past tense
4)(A) These orders of/ (B) the Manager/ (C) may put the lives of two thousand workers in a danger./ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) 'In danger' is the correct phrase.
5)(A) She asked me that why I was/ (B) not preparing for the/ (C) Civil Service Examinations./ (D) No error.
Ans- (a) The use of that before ‘wh family’ is wrong when the sentence is in interrogative form in indirect speech. Remove ‘why’.
6)(A) It was almost/ (B) ten years ago since he wrote/ (C) a letter to me enquiring about my well being/ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) ‘When’ will come after ‘ago’ as a point of time is denoted.
7)(A) Never in the history/(B) there has been/ (C) as shrewd a mentor as Chanakya/ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) Never (adverb) will be followed by a helping verb (has) first and then the subject.
8)(A) Great leaders tried / (B) to eradicate social evil practices/(C) with tooth and nail/ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Remove ‘with’.
9)(A) He has lots/ (B) of money and/ (C) he will not help any one/ (D) No error.
Ans- (b) Change ‘and’ into ‘but’.
10)(A) His father/ (B) asked him to go/ (C) to the temple every morning/ (D) No error.
Ans- (c) Here ‘temple’ is mentioned in relation to its primary purpose. Hence ‘the’ will not be used.
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