Error spotting practice test-17 (Complete Revision)

6)

Direction: Read these sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in. the error if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error,mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

Suresh Babu who is living (a)/in this house since 1955 (b)/ is a well-known scholar of history (c)/ and a distinguished musician. (d)/ No error (e)

[SBI (PO), 2003]


Discussion
7)

Direction: Read these sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in. the error if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

Suresh Babu who is living (a)/in this house since 1955 (b)/ is a well-known scholar of history (c)/ and a distinguished musician. (d)/ No error (e)

[SBI (PO), 2003]


Discussion
8)

Direction: Read these sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in. the error if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation,if any)

If you had read (a)/ the relevant literature carefully (b)/ you would have answered (c)/ most of the questions correctly. (d)/ No error (e)

[SBI (PO), 2003]


Discussion
9)

Direction: Read these sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in. the error if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any)

The house where the dead man was found (a)/ is being guarded by police (b)/ to prevent it from being entered (c)/ and the evidence interfered with. (d)/ No error (e)

[SBI (PO), 2003]


Discussion
10)

Direction: Read these sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in. the error if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation,if any)

If the present rate in increase continues (a)/ our population at the turn of the century (b)/ may well reach the staggering (c)/ figure of one billion. (d)/ No error (e)

[UII (AO), 20002]


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