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- The test is designed to check your current understanding of the language and whether you are able to use the rules of grammar to identify errors in sentences.
- Directions for individual questionsEach sentence is divided into parts and each part is labeled as an answer option. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark that part as the answer. If there is no error, mark that part as your answer
Part Errors (Grammar): Test-5
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Question 1 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
A skillful advertiser may be able to create | |
practically a monopoly for himself | |
not because his product is superior to | |
but because he has succeeded in inducing people to believe that it is. | |
No error |
Question 1 Explanation:
The group of words, 'monopoly for himself’ should be replaced by 'monopoly of himself.’
Question 2 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
Whatever may be the origin of speech, | |
we can be certain that man did not began | |
to feel the need to speak | |
until he began to live in communities. | |
No error |
Question 2 Explanation:
begin
‘Did not’ is in past tense and two past tense words don’t come together, so ‘begin’ will be used.
Question 3 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
Each animal of the same species | |
looks for the same sort of food. | |
Also, there may be other animals of different species | |
competing with the same food. | |
No error |
Question 3 Explanation:
competing for the same food
‘For’ is used because the competition is ‘for’ food and not ‘with food’.
Question 4 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
Let's all work | |
together as like homogeneous | |
group so that | |
success would be obvious. | |
No error |
Question 4 Explanation:
together as a homogeneous
‘As and ‘like’ both are used for depicting analogies, both will not be used together.
Question 5 |
Identify the error in the sentence given below.
Just before the demonstration started | |
the police arrive at the site | |
as if they had | |
received information. | |
No error |
Question 5 Explanation:
the police arrived at the site
The time at which the police arrived is ‘past’, hence ‘arrived’.
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The third option- “not because his product is superior to”…
How is it complete. We need to say what is the product it is superior to?