PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

SPOTTING ERRORS

PREPARATORY SET-77 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-10): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the number of that part with error as your answer. If there is no error mark, (5), as your answer.

 

Question No : 1

(1) Imagine choosing a

(2) career in which you

(3) would become so involved

(4) that you forget your personal life

(5) No error

Question No : 2

(1) Reporters surrounded him

(2) immediately after the

(3) event in which

(4) he gave a nice speech

(5) No Error

Question No : 3

(1) Reenu’s father

(2) with her cousins

(3) has returned from

(4) America last week

(5) No error

Question No : 4

(1) Rashid sure would

(2) be happier without

(3) the responsibility

(4) of his brother

(5) No error

Question No : 5

(1) When I got to

(2) my car, I found

(3) the new phone

(4) had been stolen

(5) No Error

Question No : 6

(1) We are getting late

(2) for the movie

(3) I wish we reach

(4) on time

(5) No error

Question No : 7

(1) The geese that

(2) fly south for the winter

(3) is nesting around

(4) the lake

(5) No error

Question No : 8

(1) Is it not better to fall into

(2) the hands of a murderer

(3) then into the dreams

(4) of a cunning woman?

(5) No error

Question No : 9

(1) The resignation of one of the

(2) executive directors of TATA motors

(3) have caused the price of its shares

(4) to touch a new record low

(5) no error

Question No : 10

(1) It had earlier came out with

(2) Two schemes to deal with the

(3) Problems of black money stashed

(4) Abroad and kept at home

(5) No error