Error Spotting & Sentence Improvement Quiz

New Pattern Error Spotting Quiz. Error Spotting Questions with Answers for All Banking and Insurance Exams i.e. SBI PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/Clerk, NABARD, RBI, SEBI Grade A & B, LIC AAO, and Other Exams 2020-21. Spotting Error & Sentence Improvement Quiz based on previous year exams. If you are preparing for Banking and Insurance Exams, you will come across a section on the English language. Here we are providing you Error Spotting Questions with Answers, based on the latest pattern of your daily practice.

Error Spotting Questions with Answers will help you learn concepts on important topics in English Section. This “Error Spotting Questions with Answers for Bank Exams” is also important for all competitive exams.

Error Spotting Questions with Answers | Set 3


1. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. Can you take this to the post office for me, Neil
B. Why don’t we take a coffee together tomorrow
C. We always enjoy ourselves when we go to Lynn’s house.
D. I wonder if I could have an appointment for a hair cut tomorrow afternoon
E. None of these

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Correct Answer – B. Why don’t we take a coffee together tomorrow

Explanation-In (b) replace TAKE with HAVE, because we don’t use take when we talk about having a meal or a drink.

2. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. They said that four million workers stayed at home to protest against the tax.
B. Every student must show their identity card on entering the examination room.
C. While it hurt when she bent her wrist, she could still move her fingers.
D. We were near the front of the queue but we still didn’t get tickets for the concert.
E. None of these

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Correct Answer – C. While it hurt when she bent her wrist, she could still move her fingers.

Explanation-In (c) replace WHILE with ALTHOUGH, because ALTHOUGH is used in a contrasting manner to mean ‘in spite of something’. As the sentence is mentioning a contrast between hurting while moving the wrist and still getting to the fingers thus ALTHOUGH should be used as a contrast not WHILE as it means during the time that; at the same time as.

3. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. The ticket office opened at 8 am, and all the tickets were sold out soon.
B. He is also having intensive treatment in the hope that he will be able to train on Friday.
C. Are we prepared to change our entire lives for the sake of one person? I think not.
D. The trip was cancelled because there was too little interest in it.
E. No Error

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Correct Answer – A. The ticket office opened at 8 am, and all the tickets were sold out soon.

Explanation-In (a) replace SOLD OUT SOON with SOON SOLD OUT, because SOON means ‘a short time after now’ and ‘a short time after a point in the past’. Like many other short adverbs, we can use it in front position, mid position or end position, though we don’t use it in end position when referring to the past.

4. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. Can you put your things in the upstairs room
B. Hundreds of people went to the village festival and all seemed to enjoy themselfs very much.
C. A large saucepan is what we need for making jam, but I don’t have one.
D. They’re too young to have a holiday so far away from home.
E. No Error

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Correct Answer – B. Hundreds of people went to the village festival and all seemed to enjoy themselfs very much.

Explanation-In (b) replace THEMSELVES with THEMSELVES, because THEMSELVES is the correct pronoun used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a group of people or things previously mentioned as the subject of the clause.

5. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. We can no longer assume that because someone can do the job, they can teach the skill.
B. There is a new cafe in the centre of town which sells Indonesian food.
C. Supposing they had closed the road. Would that have been a good idea
D. Geopolitics was the driving force behind Gulf Air’s rise and fall.
E.  No Error

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Correct Answer – E. No Error

Explanation- The sentences do not have any error.

6. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. He has high moral standards, is scrupulously honest and highly sagacious.
B. The whole community was scandalized by her second marriage.
C. He has been questioned on suspicion of slandering the Prime Minister.
D. We came to the conclusion ultimately that political demonstrations was a waste of time.
E. No Error

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Correct Answer – D. We came to the conclusion ultimately that political demonstrations was a waste of time.

Explanation-In (d) replace WAS with WERE, because ‘political demonstrations’ are a plural noun and should be followed by a plural verb WERE, thus this makes option (d) the right answer

7. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. They were asking a colossal amount of money for the house.
B. Larry drove me as far as the shop and I walked the rest of the way home.
C. Venus is just under the moon right now.
D. The good weather has pushed sales of summer clothes up.
E. No Error

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Correct Answer – C. Venus is just under the moon right now.

Explanation-In (c) replace UNDER with BELOW, because we don’t use UNDER to refer to something in a lower position than something else. We use BELOW.

8. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. I usually play football on Wednesday evenings, so Thursday would be better for me to go out for a meal.
B. That white house over there used to belong to my family.
C.  Can you turn the radio off as you’re listening to it
D. I usually play football on Wednesday evenings, so Thursday would be better for me to go out for a meal.
E. No Error

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Correct Answer – C. Can you turn the radio off as you’re listening to it

Explanation-In (c) replace AS with UNLESS. UNLESS is a conjunction meaning except if, which is used to say what will or will not happen if something else does not happen or is not true.

9. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. The country roads are quite perilous.
B. There was a loud bang, and I can’t remember what happened next.
C. I don’t know what we would have done if we hadn’t seen you
D. Already more than fifty thousand tickets have been sold for Saturday’s cup final match.
E.  No Error

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Correct Answer – E. No Error

Explanation-The sentences do not have any error.

10. In the following question, there are four sentences. Identify the sentence that is incorrect in terms of grammar and usage (including spelling and logical consistency). Then, choose the most appropriate option. If all the sentences are correct then choose (e) ‘No Error’ as your answer.
A. Does she have a lot of friends at work
B. He hate being in hospital.
C. On the way to Edinburgh, we stopped to look at an old castle.
D. Somebody has obviously made a mistake.
E. No Error

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Correct Answer – B. He hate being in hospital.

Explanation-In (b) replace HATE with HATES. The person and number of the subject of the clause determine the person and number of the verb of the clause. This is called subject–verb agreement or concord and thus as HE is a singular person thus a singular verb HATES will be used.

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