Directions: Find out the error in each of the following sentences, if any. If there is no error, the answer is ‘E’.
1.In spite of facing much problems, he did not desert the path of honesty.
(a) In spite of facing
(b) much problems, he did not
(c) desert the path
(d) of honesty
(e) No Error
(use ‘many’ in place of ‘much’ . ‘much’ is used with uncountable nouns. )
2.Can you tell me how many eggs and milk he has brought home?
(a) Can you tell me how
(b) many eggs and
(c) milk he has brought
(d) home?
(e) No Error
(use ‘ how much’ before milk. milk is uncountable.)
3.Delhi is further from Patna than Kolkata.
(a) Delhi is
(b) further from
(c) Patna than
(d) Kolkata
(e) No Error
( use ‘farther’ in place of ‘further’. farther denotes distance. ‘further’ denotes position. )
4.Of the two players, he is the luckiest, be sure.
(a) Of the two
(b) players, he
(c) is the luckiest,
(d) be sure.
(e) No Error
(use ‘luckier’ in place of ‘luckiest’. when comparative degree is used for two things or persons. for more than two superlative degree is used. )
5.You can trust this agency for the last news of this week.
(a) You can trust
(b) this agency
(c) for the last news
(d) of this week
(e) No Error
( use ‘latest’ in place of ‘last’. latest shows time, last shows position.)
6.Now-a-days, the weather is getting cold and colder.
(a) Now-a-days,
(b) the weather
(c) is getting cold and
(d) colder
(e) No Error
(to show gradual development of something , comparative degree of adjective is used. use ‘colder and colder’)
7.This photograph was comparatively better than that which he had kept in his purse.
(a) This photograph
(b) was comparatively better
(c)than that which he had kept
(d) in his purse.
(e) No Error
(use ‘good’ in place of better, after relatively/comparatively – positive degree is used. )
8.India is better than most others film producing countries of the world.
(a) India is
(b) better than most others
(c) film producing countries
(d) of the world.
(e) No Error
( use ‘other’ in place of ‘others’.)
9.He felt happily to learn that his younger brother had got a prestigious job in he Bank.
(a) He felt happily
(b) to learn that his
(c)younger brother had got
(d) a prestigious job in the Bank.
(e) No Error
(use ‘happy’ in place of ‘happily’.)
10.The Principal has great power of making some useful plans but the professors have even greatest ability to foil them.
(a) The Principal has great power
(b) of making some useful
(c) plans but the professors
(d) have even greatest ability to foil them.
(e) No Error
(use ‘greater’ in place of ‘greatest’. )
