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GRAMMAR

ENGLISH
ERROR
CORRECTION
HOW TO SOLVE ERROR CORRECTION QUESTIONS?

CAREFULLY READ THE SENTENCES PROVIDED.


IDENTIFY AND MARK THE ERRORS IN THE SENTENCES.
THINK ABOUT THE CORRECT ALTERNATIVE FOR THE MISTAKE.
WRITE THE CORRECT WORD INSTEAD OF THE ERROR.

HOW TO IDENTIFY THE ERRORS?


CHECK FOR PUNCTUATIONS
CHECK FOR THE PARTS OF SPEECH
CHECK THE USAGE OF TENSES
CHECK THE PRONOUNS
Certain nouns being a singular form represent plurality and therefore, take a plural verb in a sentence.
Example: police, clergy, people, peasantry, cattle.
People has left. (Incorrect)
People have left. (Correct)

Certain nouns take the plural verb because of their plural form.
Example: Clothes, Scissors, trousers, amends, spectacles, thanks.
The spectacles is missing. (Incorrect)
The spectacles are missing. (Correct)

When a noun denoting weight, number, money, length or measure is following a number, the noun form
does not change as long as another noun or pronoun follows it.
Example: Million, pair, meter, year, dozen.
This is a 9-meters scale. (Incorrect)
This is a 9-meter scale. (Correct)

When the pronoun ‘one’ is used, it should be maintained throughout the whole sentence.
One must help his siblings. (Incorrect)
One must help one’s siblings. (Correct)

For living people ‘whose’ is generally used and for things that are non-living ‘which’ is used.
Which phone is kept on charging? (Incorrect)
Whose phone is kept on charging? (Correct)
‘Fewer’ is used for denoting number while ‘Less’ is used for denoting quantity.
No less than thirty dogs were. (Incorrect)
No fewer than thirty dogs were. (Correct)

Sentences are always opposite to question tags, for example, if the question tag is
positive then the sentence is negative and vice versa.
It’s a bit early, is it? (Incorrect)
It’s a bit early, isn’t it? (Correct)

Instead of ‘who’ or ‘which’, the relative pronoun ‘that’ is used after adjectives in
the superlative degree.
These are the best which he could get. (Incorrect)
These are the best that he could get. (Correct)

‘As’ is used both before and after the adjective to show equality.
I can write as fast, if not faster than her. (Incorrect)
I can write as fast as, if not faster than her. (Correct)
‘Though’ is always followed by ‘yet’ in a sentence and not by ‘but’.
Thus,
Though he is rich but he is kind. (Incorrect)
Though he is rich, yet he is kind. (Correct)

‘Not’ is never used with ‘unless’ as ‘unless’ expresses a condition that is always used in the
negative sense.
Thus,
Unless you do not pay the fine, you will not be excused. (Incorrect)
Unless you pay the fine, you will not be excused. (Correct)

‘While’ implies a time duration of doing something and ‘When’ denotes a general sense.
Thus,
When learning how to box, the technique is of utmost importance. (Incorrect)
While learning how to box, the technique is of utmost importance. (Correct)
THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS ONE ERROR IN EACH LINE. WRITE THE INCORRECT
WORD AND THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT QUESTION NUMBER. THE FIRST
ONE HAS BEEN DONE AS AN EXAMPLE. (4 MARKS)

DOLPHINS AND KILLER WHALES HAS LEARNED ELABORATE ROUTINE [ERROR: HAS; CORRECTION: HAVE]
TO ENTERTAIN AQUARIUM AUDIENCES. THEY ARE THOUGHT
BY MEN TO BEING EVEN MORE SCIENTIFICALLY (A)
INTELLIGENT THEN MEN. IN SCIENTIFIC (B)
EXPERIMENTS THEY HAD SHOWED GREAT (C)
SKILL FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN OBJECTS. (D)
THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS ONE ERROR IN EACH LINE. WRITE THE INCORRECT
WORD AND THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT QUESTION NUMBER. THE FIRST
ONE HAS BEEN DONE AS AN EXAMPLE. (4 MARKS)

DOLPHINS AND KILLER WHALES HAS LEARNED ELABORATE ROUTINE [ERROR: HAS; CORRECTION: HAVE]
TO ENTERTAIN AQUARIUM AUDIENCES. THEY ARE THOUGHT
BY MEN TO BEING EVEN MORE SCIENTIFICALLY (A)
INTELLIGENT THEN MEN. IN SCIENTIFIC (B)
EXPERIMENTS THEY HAD SHOWED GREAT (C)
SKILL FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN OBJECTS. (D)
THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS ONE ERROR IN EACH LINE. WRITE THE INCORRECT
WORD AND THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT QUESTION NUMBER. THE FIRST
ONE HAS BEEN DONE AS AN EXAMPLE.

COMMUNITY SERVICE SENSITISE PEOPLE TO (A)


OTHER’S NEEDS AND SUPPORTS INCLUSIVE (B)
DEVELOPMENT TO THE UNDERPRIVILEGED (C)
SECTIONS WITH SOCIETY. COURSES ABOUT SOCIAL (D)

WORK PREPARES FRONTLINE WORKERS TO (E)


TAKES UP ASSIGNMENTS IN SOCIAL WELFARE (F)
ORGANIZATIONS. PRACTICAL WORK INCLUDING (G)
50 HOUR OF STRUCTURED INTERNSHIP TO MAN PROJECTS.(H)
THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS ONE ERROR IN EACH LINE. WRITE THE INCORRECT
WORD AND THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT QUESTION NUMBER. THE FIRST
ONE HAS BEEN DONE AS AN EXAMPLE.

COMMUNITY SERVICE SENSITISE PEOPLE TO (A)


OTHER’S NEEDS AND SUPPORTS INCLUSIVE (B)
DEVELOPMENT TO THE UNDERPRIVILEGED (C)
SECTIONS WITH SOCIETY. COURSES ABOUT SOCIAL (D)

WORK PREPARES FRONTLINE WORKERS TO (E)


TAKES UP ASSIGNMENTS IN SOCIAL WELFARE (F)
ORGANIZATIONS. PRACTICAL WORK INCLUDING (G)
50 HOUR OF STRUCTURED INTERNSHIP TO MAN PROJECTS.(H)
THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS ONE ERROR IN EACH LINE. WRITE THE INCORRECT
WORD AND THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT QUESTION NUMBER. THE FIRST
ONE HAS BEEN DONE AS AN EXAMPLE.

VIJENDER SINGH OF BHIWANI, BE THE (A)


FIRST INDIAN BOXER AS BRING AN OLYMPIC (B)

MEDAL TO INDIA AT 2008. (C)


VIJENDER WAS ENCOURAGED FROM HIS COACH (D)
THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE HAS NOT BEEN EDITED. THERE IS ONE ERROR IN EACH LINE. WRITE THE INCORRECT
WORD AND THE CORRECTION IN YOUR ANSWER SHEET AGAINST THE CORRECT QUESTION NUMBER. THE FIRST
ONE HAS BEEN DONE AS AN EXAMPLE.

VIJENDER SINGH OF BHIWANI, BE THE (A)


FIRST INDIAN BOXER AS BRING AN OLYMPIC (B)

MEDAL TO INDIA AT 2008. (C)


VIJENDER WAS ENCOURAGED FROM HIS COACH (D)
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