PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SPOTTING ERRORS

PREPARATORY SET-64 (NEW PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the following questions, various sentences are given and you have to choose the one which has some or any grammatical error in it.

 

Question No : 1

(1) I left the station-master’s office, and found the poor Alsatian waiting at the door

(2) An example of being on the political left is a pro-choice person

(3) Jonathan was playing cars with Destiny in the family room floor while Carmen straightened up the clutter left by so many people

(4) He left playing, after his accident

(5) You left your immigration problems to sentimentalists and money-makers

Question No : 2

(1) I paused for a moment to have a full view of this notorious criminal

(2) I know that several of my readers may remind me of Sir Boyle Roche, whose bulls have become not only notorious, but also proverbial

(3) The man who was blind with the right eye was a notorious criminal of this area

(4) Many of the pretended magnetizers were notorious libertines, who took that opportunity of gratifying their passions

(5) All are correct

Question No : 3

(1) She was aware that it was raining, for the fire-escape outside shone wet in the light from a window across the narrow court

(2) It was raining in torrents and the landscape appeared deluged and desolate.

(3) When they reached the outer door they found to their amazement that it was raining hard

(4) They were nearing the portico; it was raining outside, and a cold wind blew in to meet them

(5) No sooner he left the office than it started raining heavily to make him completely wet

Question No : 4

(1) Who has been responsible for all the trouble the world has known for ages?

(2) He only is responsible for the suffering caused to the whole family

(3) I am sure the heat, and not the natural, beautiful activity of her mind, is responsible for her condition

(4) You can’t make me responsible for the acts of a person I don’t know

(5) All are correct

Question No : 5

(1) How sweet and pastoral are these cool resting-places in the heart of the Vosges!

(2) In a fit of temper he tore up a sweet letter which his wife had written to him

(3) It is the emblem of rustic maid in the sweet prime of her morning

(4) It has been an advantage for that sweet girl to have been brought up by them

(5) That sweet chocolate gaze softened and a smile touched the corners of his mouth