Common Errors Online Quiz 5 for SSC, Banking & Railway Exams – Practice Now

Solution: 

Option B has the grammatically incorrect part.

• The noun "a substantial amount" is an uncountable noun.
• Thus, we will use a singular verb with it.
• We should replace "have been" with "has been" to make the sentence grammatically correct.

Thus, the correct sentence will be: Police reports claim that a substantial amount of cocaine has been seized in the last two months.

Solution:It should be “object” instead of “objection”.

Solution:The correct answer is option b.
The error lies in part b of the sentence.
Replace ‘Passing Marks’ with ‘Pass marks’ to make the sentence grammatically correct.
Passing marks is grammatically incorrect & hence, option b is the correct choice.
The correct sentence thus formed is - Shefali was sad because she could not attain pass marks in the final exam.

Solution:The correct answer is option b.
Remove ‘Man’ after ‘Coward’ to make the sentence grammatically correct. Usage of
‘Coward and man’ together is wrong. Coward means a person who lacks courage.
The correct sentence thus formed is - Himesh was hated by everyone for being a coward.

Solution: 

The underlined part is grammatically incorrect.

• In the sentence, "there" is called a dummy subject.

• When "there" is used, the verb agrees with the noun/pronoun following by it.

• In the sentence, the noun is "a few things" which is plural and therefore, requires a plural verb.

• The underlined part must be kept in the past tense as the speaker talks about things that he needed to work on in past.

• Thus, 'were a few things' is the most suited one.

The correct sentence should be :- There were a few things that I needed to work on mentally which I am happy I could work.
Hence, option B is the correct answer.

Option C has the grammatically incorrect part.

• The sentence in this form compares the works of Shakespeare with other dramatists.
• The comparison should be between the works of both parties.
• We can correct this sentence either by replacing "dramatist" with "dramatist's" or by adding the phrase 'the works of' before 'any' in the last part.

The correct sentence will be:The works of Shakespeare are more famous than the works of any other English dramatist. 
or

The works of Shakespeare are more famous than any other English dramatist's. 

Solution:

Option B has the grammatically incorrect part.

• "The same" is followed by "that" and not "which".

  e.g. This is the same car that I saw yesterday.

• Therefore, "which" needs to be replaced by "that" to make the sentence grammatically sound.

The correct sentence will be: This is the same story that I heard from him yesterday.

Solution: 

The sentence is grammatically and contextually correct.

• The structure "one of" is followed by the plural form of the noun and singular verb.

Hence,option Dis the correct answer.

Solution: 

Option C has the grammatically incorrect part.

• The word “villain” does not begin with a vowel sound.
• This means the use of the article "an" is incorrect here.
• Thus, replace "an" with "a" to make the sentence grammatically sound.

Thus, the correct sentence will be:The people regarded him as an impostor and called him a villain.

Solution:Replace ‘three – crores’ with ‘three – crore’ because –In hyphenated Compound Adjectives, the Noun is used in Singular form.