Error Detection: Exercise-2

Overview:


Questions and Answers Type:MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions).
Main Topic:English Verbal Ability.
English Verbal Ability Sub-topic:Error Detection Questions and Answers.
Number of Questions:10 Questions with Solutions.

Directions: Read each sentence carefully to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it.The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Select the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, choose option (5) as your answer. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)


  1. Many citizens are gravitating towards the nation's second-largest state because it offer ample job opportunities.

    1. Many citizens are gravitating
    2. towards the nation's
    3. second-largest state because it offer
    4. ample job opportunities.
    5. No error


Answer: (c) second-largest state because it offer

Solution: Here, "second-largest state because it offers" should be used instead of "second-largest state because it offer".

  1. Most African nations were largely shielded from the 2008 financial crisis by China's insatiable demand for natural resources.

    1. Most African nations were largely
    2. shielded from the 2008 financial crisis
    3. by China's insatiable demand
    4. for natural resources.
    5. No error


Answer: (b) shielded from the 2008 financial crisis

Solution: Here, "shielded against the 2008 financial crisis" should be used instead of "shielded from the 2008 financial crisis".

  1. Skeptics worries that the devaluation of the country's currency is a desperate move to bail out struggling exporters.

    1. Skeptics worries that the devaluation
    2. of the country's currency is
    3. a desperate move to
    4. bail out struggling exporters.
    5. No error


Answer: (a) Skeptics worries that the devaluation

Solution: Here, "Skeptics worry that the devaluation" or "Skeptic worries that the devaluation" should be used instead of "Skeptics worries that the devaluation".

  1. Consumers are constantly been encouraged to take advantage of the lowered interest rates.

    1. Consumers are constantly been
    2. encouraged to take
    3. advantage of the
    4. lowered interest rates.
    5. No error


Answer: (a) Consumers are constantly been

Solution: Here, "Consumers heve constantly been" should be used instead of "Consumers are constantly been".

  1. Emerging economies are dominating the news but for all the wrong reasons.

    1. Emerging economies are
    2. dominating the news
    3. but for
    4. all the wrong reasons.
    5. No error


Answer: (e) No error

Solution: No error

  1. How serious is the country's economic problems, and how big an impact will these have on the world economies.

    1. How serious is the country's
    2. economic problems, and how
    3. big an impact will these
    4. have on the world economies.
    5. No error


Answer: (a) How serious is the country's

Solution: Here, "How serious are the country's" should be used instead of "How serious is the country's".

  1. Shuber, the taxi service provider, is growing like a weed spending millions of rupees to establish its roots in the country.

    1. Shuber, the taxi service provider, is
    2. growing like a weed
    3. spending millions of rupees
    4. to establish its roots in the country.
    5. No error


Answer: (d) to establish its roots in the country.

Solution: Here, "in establishing its roots in the country" should be used instead of "to establish its roots in the country".

  1. The servey asked respondents from more than 50 countries to identify kinds of people they would want of neighbours.

    1. The servey asked respondents
    2. from more than 50 countries to
    3. identify kinds of people
    4. they would want of neighbours.
    5. No error


Answer: (d) they would want of neighbours.

Solution: Here, "they would want as neighbours" should be used instead of "they would want of neighbours".

  1. The pace and scale of the country's economic transformation have no historical precedent.

    1. The pace and scale of
    2. the country's economic transformation
    3. have no
    4. historical precedent.
    5. No error


Answer: (c) have no

Solution: Here, "has no" should be used instead of "have no".

  1. The countries most affected by the economic slowdown are likely to be those whose export raw materials.

    1. The countries most
    2. affected by the economic slowdown
    3. are likely to be
    4. those whose export raw materials.
    5. No error


Answer: (d) those whose export raw materials.

Solution: Here, "those which export raw materials" should be used instead of "those whose export raw materials".