Error Spotting & Sentence Correction — Practice

Question 1

Find the error: 'The quality of the products (a)/ have improved (b)/ over the last year (c)/ No error (d).'

Accepted Answer

Subject 'quality' is singular ⇒ 'has improved'.

Answer: (b) — 'have improved' should be 'has improved'.

Question 2

Find the error: 'She is married (a)/ with a doctor (b)/ who works abroad (c)/ No error (d).'

Accepted Answer

'Married' takes 'to', not 'with'.

Answer: (b) — 'with a doctor' should be 'to a doctor'.

Question 3

Find the error: 'By the time he arrived (a)/ the meeting has ended (b)/ and everyone had left (c)/ No error (d).'

Accepted Answer

The earlier past action needs past perfect ⇒ 'had ended'.

Answer: (b) — 'has ended' should be 'had ended'.

Question 4

Find the error: 'He is good at (a)/ singing, dancing (b)/ and to act (c)/ No error (d).'

Accepted Answer

Parallelism requires 'acting'.

Answer: (c) — 'to act' should be 'acting'.

Question 5

Find the error: 'One of the students (a)/ has topped (b)/ the examination this year (c)/ No error (d).'

Accepted Answer

'One of' + singular verb 'has' is correct; the rest is fine.

Answer: (d) No error.

Question 6

Find the error: 'This is by far (a)/ the most unique (b)/ solution proposed so far (c)/ No error (d).'

Accepted Answer

'Unique' is absolute — no 'most'.

Answer: (b) — 'the most unique' should be 'the unique' / 'unique'.

Practice — Error Spotting & Sentence Correction