Directions (1-15): In the following questions, the sentences have an error, Find out the error and mark as your correct response.
Q1.The steep rise in the price of petroleum products have affected the economic development of the developing nations.
(a) The steep rise in the price of petroleum products
(b) have affected
(c) the economic development of the developing nations.
(d) No error
Q2. Kiran as well as Kamal are leaving for Mumbai.
(a) Kiran as well as Kamal
(b) are leaving
(c) for Mumbai.
(d) No error
Q3. In the past people travelled by foot.
(a) In the past
(b) people travelled
(c) by foot.
(d) No error
Q4. Much water has flown under the bridge since then.
(a) Much water
(b) has flown
(c) under the bridge since then.
(d) No error
Q5. You should know that the ultimate decision in the matter rests upon the board of directors.
(a) You should know
(b) that the ultimate decision in the matter
(c) rests upon the board of directors.
(d) No error
Q6. Give the book either to my mother or my brother.
(a) Give the book either
(b) to my mother
(c) or my brother.
(d) No error
Q7. As a matter of fact I am not a coward you take me for.
(a) As a matter of fact
(b) I am not a coward
(c) you take me for.
(d) No error
Q8. I wish you learnt to express better.
(a) I wish
(b) you learnt
(c) to express better.
(d) No error
Q9. I do not wish to rise false hopes.
(a) I do not wish
(b) to rise
(c) false hopes.
(d) No error
Q10. There is no need of being anxious about her: she knows her way home, and will soon be back with us.
(a) There is no need of being anxious about her:
(b) she knows her way home,
(c) and will soon be back with us.
(d) No error
Q11. If you have power or money you misuse and if you don’t have it you yearn for it.
(a) If you have power or money you misuse
(b) and if you don’t have it
(c) you yearn for it.
(d) No error
Q12. The level of a firm’s profits depends upon the success in which it is able to employ all its assets – human and non-human.
(a) The level of a firm’s profits depends upon the success
(b) in which it is able
(c) to employ all its assets – human and non-human.
(d) No error
Q13. With the number of vehicles on the roads going up fast, the traffic in all our large cities have become heavy and hazardous.
(a) With the number of vehicles on the roads going up fast,
(b) the traffic in all our large cities
(c) have become heavy and hazardous.
(d) No error
Q14. Soon after the first show I returned to my quarter, where I was surprised to find my uncle waiting for me.
(a) Soon after the first show
(b) I returned to my quarter,
(c) where I was surprised to find my uncle waiting for me.
(d) No error
Q15. Scientific medicine had, at first, to combat superstitions similar to those that inspired belief in the witchcraft.
(a) Scientific medicine had, at first, to combat
(b) superstitions similar to those
(c) that inspired belief in the witchcraft.
(d) No error
SOLUTIONS
S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. Substitute singular ‘has’ to make it agree with subject-word ‘rise’.
S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. In an ‘as well as’ sentence the verb should agree with the part preceding ‘as well as’. USE singular verb ‘is’.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. The correct idiom is ‘on foot’.
S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. The past participle of ‘fly’ is ‘flown’ but that of ‘flow’ is ‘flowed’.
S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. Substitute ‘with’ for ‘upon’.
A theory or someone’s success ‘rests on (upon)’ a particular thing. That is, it depends on that thing. Authority, a responsibility or a decision ‘rests with you’. That is, you have the authority or responsibility.
You are the one who will make that decision.
S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Insert ‘to’ after ‘or’. The preposition should be there in each part in such compartmentalized sentences.
S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. Substitute ‘the’ for ‘a’. We are talking about a particular coward – the one you take me for.
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. The noun phrase should be “how to express yourself better.”
S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. The correct word is ‘raise’.
S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. Substitute ‘to be’ for ‘of being’.
S11. Ans.(a)
Sol. The object ‘it’ is missing after transitive verb ‘misuse’.
S12. Ans.(b)
Sol. Substitute ‘with’ for ‘in’.
S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Use singular ‘has’ in keeping with the subject word ‘traffic’.
S14. Ans.(b)
Sol. The correct word here should be ‘quarters’.
S15. Ans.(c)
Sol. Delete article ‘the’.
