50 Error Spotting Practice Questions Prelims & Mains Level – Download Free PDF

Irrespective of the exam you are catering to for this year, be it IBPS PO prelims, IBPS Clerk Prelims or SBI Clerk Prelims there is one common section in these both and in many other major exams which is the English language. Error detection is one such topic which is mostly asked in the english language and with practice it is quite easy to master this concept. Here in this article we bring to you 50 practice questions on Error Spotting for both Prelims and Mains level. This PDF is completely free to download.

Error Spotting Practice Questions – Download Free PDF

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Error Detection Tips to Increase your Accuracy

• The tone of the given statement is to be analyzed. It can either be sarcastic, negative or positive etc.
• Elimination approach is one of the quickest and easiest way to adopt as it is very much possible that an aspirant may not be knowing all the rules required. Thus, make use of this technique.
• Avoid making an error in a sentence from yourself as it is not necessary that there will an error in the sentence always.
• One must have a clear understanding of all the fundamental concepts and these should come handy while you are preparing for any such topic.

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Error Detection Types

There’s no denying the fact that practice & only practice can help you score all of these error detection marks. Broadly, below are the types of errors which are asked:

• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Usage of Participles & Infinitives
• Usage of Verbs
• Usage of Adjectives

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Quick Things to Keep in Mind

Wherever the below words appear, be cautious of their usage:

• Few, less and little
• Many and much
• Their, there and they’re
• Your and you’re
• Explain and suggest (as in the difference between explaining her and suggesting her)
• Loose and lose
• Usage of ‘even’ (and not ‘only’) for emphasis
• ‘Back’ with ‘revert’
• Anyway without ‘s’ is correct (‘Anyways’ is nonstandard usage)
• Who and whom
• ‘comma’ before ‘that’ should be avoided
• Accept, except and expect
• It’s and its
• Since and for
• Usage of ‘were’ in a possible situation
• More and better
• Although and but

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50 Error Spotting Practice Questions

Directions (Qs. 1-5): In the following question, a sentence is given, divided into 5 parts. Part (A) is grammatically correct. Out of the other four parts, only one part is without error. Mark the option containing the part with no error. If none of the parts have errors, mark ‘No error’ as your answer. 

Question 1

Although the Sikhs are a (A)/ regional community in India, but by (B)/ availing of modern opportunities (C)/ they have extended their enterprises (D)/ all over the country. €

a) B
b) D
c) E
d) C
e) No error

Ans: (a)

Solution: In B, remove BUT, as the sentence has already used the conjunction ALTHOUGH, which is used to show contradiction, so the use of BUT is redundant. Thus, (a) is the right answer.

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Question 2

Every community has the (A)/ responsibility of educating its (B)/ next generation, for education is (C)/ the master-key which will (D)/ opened all closed doors. (E)

a) B
b) C
c) D
d) E

e) No error

Ans: (d)

Solution: In E, replace OPENED with OPEN as the modal verb WILL will take the base form of the main verb. Thus, (d) is the right answer.

Question 3

As the telegraph triggered the (A)/ development of newly technologies, communication (B)/ became progressively footloose, (C)/ liberated from the constraints (D)/ of space and time. (E)

a) C
b) B
c) D
d) E
e) No error

Ans: (b)

Solution: In B, replace NEWLY with NEW, as the former is an adverb and the latter is an adjective. We need an adjective here to modify the noun TECHNOLOGIES. Thus, (b) is the right answer.

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Question 4

Many American politicians (A)/ have been blaming the (B)/ continuous lose of American jobs (C)/ on globalisation aided (D)/ by digital technology. €

a) D
b) E
c) B
d) C
e) No error

Ans: (d)

Solution: In C, replace LOSE with LOSS, as the former is a verb and the latter is a noun. We need a noun here to be modified by the adjective CONTINUOUS. Thus, (d) is the right answer.

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Question 5

Awaiting more unambiguous medical assessments, (A)/ WHO and the International Commission on (B)/ Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection have use available scientific (C)/ evidence to provide exposure limit guidelines, based on (D)/ which DoT has set up safety norms in India. (E)

a) C
b) B
c) D
d) E
e) No error

Ans: (a)

Solution: In C, replace USE with USED, as the present perfect tense construction HAVE + VERB must use the past participle form of the verb. Thus, (a) is the right answer.

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This brings us to the end of this article. Make sure you download this free PDF and grab your hands onto lot of error spotting practice questions for the upcoming examinations including SBI Clerk Prelims and IBPS Clerk prelims etc.