Correction of Errors
Based on a) Subject-verb agreement
b) Wrong Usage of Words
c) Pattern: Choosing the right one from among three alternatives given.
Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below>>>
THE EYES HAVE IT
1) They seemed very ancient about her comfort. [Option: anxious/anxiety/anxiously]
Answer: anxious
2) I love the hills. Impartially in October. [Option: Especially/Special/Specially]
Answer: Specially
3) ‘No,’ I answered quite confusing. [Option: confidently/confidence/confident]
Answer: confidently
4) Few girls can resists flattery. [Option: resist/resisted/resisting]
Answer: resist
5) Well, an interestingly face can also be pretty. [Option:interesting/interest/interested]
Answer: interesting
6) It could be a fascinated game, guessing what went on out there. [Options : fascination, fascinate, fascinating]
Answer: fascinating
7) “That always happen,” she said.
Options: happens / happened / happening
Answer: happens.
8) She was stood very close to me.[Options: stand/standing/stands]
Answer: standing.
9) I wish I was going to Musoorie.
[Options : am/were/will]
Answer: were
10) The couple who saw her off were probable her parents.
[Options: probability/probabily/probablyl
Answer: probably
11) She had beautify eyes
[Options:beautification/beautiful/beautifully]
Answer: beautiful.
12) Thank goodness its a short journey.
[Options it was / it were / it’s]
Answer: it’s.
13) The woman gave the girl detail instructions.
[Options: detailed/detailing/details]
Answer: detailed.
14) There was some confirmation in the doorway.
[Options: confusion/confused/conviction]
Answer: confusion.
15) I wondered though she wore her hair in bun or if it was plaited.
[Options: but / is / so]
Answer: if.
16) It would take me some time to discovering something about her looks.
[Options : discovers/discover/discovered
Ans. discover.
17) I was becoming quite dare, but it was a safe remark.
[Options: Dared / daring / dares]
Answer: daring.
18) My eyes sensible only to light and darkness, I was unable to tell what the girl looked like.
[Options: sensation/sensitive/sensitively]
Ans. sensitive.
19) It could be a fascinated game, guessing what went on out there.
[Options: fascination/fascinate/fascinating]
Answer: fascinating.
20) She was an interested girl.
[Options: interest/interestingly/interesting]
Answer: interesting
21) She was standing very close to me, so close that the perfume from her hair was tantalized.
[Options: tantalise/tantalising/tantalisablel
Answer: tantalising.
21) “Then I had best not get too familiar,” I replied.
[Options: good/better/worse.]
Answer: better.
22) I wish I was going to Mussoorie.
[Options: had/is/were]
Answer: were.
23) I must have been sit in a dark corner because my voice startled her.
[Options: seat/sitting/sat]
Answer: sitting.
24) She seemed to find nothing strangeness in the question.
[Options: strangle/strangely/strange]
Answer: strange
25) Her voice had the sparkled of a mountain stream.
[Options : sparkie/spark/sparkling]
Ans. sparkling
26) They called their goodbye and the train pulled out of the station.
[Options: goodboys/names/goodbyes.]
Answer: goodbyes.
27) She was stood very close to me.
[Options: stand/standing/stands
Answer: standing.
28) “Aunts are normally formidable creatures.”
Options: usually / rarely / unusually.
Answer: usually.
29) “Did you noticed?” I ventured.
[Options: have / has / were]
Answer: have.
STRONG ROOTS
1) My father, Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education or much wealth.
[Option: for/nor/neither]
Answer: Nor
2) We lived in our ancestor house. [Option: ancient/ancestral/anchoring]
Answer: Ancestral
3) This water was then carrying home for invalids. [Option: carried/carries/carry]
Answer: carried
4) My father told me there was nothing serious about prayer. [Option: mystic/mystery/mysterious]
5) Adversity always presents opportunities for introspect.
[Option: introspection/inspection/inspiration]
Answer: introspection
6) His answers filled me with a strange energy and enthusiastic. [ Options : enthuse / enthusiastically / enthusiasm ]
Answer: enthusiasm
7) I do not recall the exacty number of people fed every day.
[Options : exactiy/exacting/exact
Answer: exact
8) My parents were wide regarded as an ideal couple.
[Options: widely/widening/wild]
Answer: widely
9) My Father could convey complex spiritual conceives in very simple, down-to-earth Tamil.
[Options: conceptions/conceptual/concepts]
Answer: concepts.
10) I would say mine was a very secured childhood.
[Options Securing/secure/secured]
Answer: secure
11) I also remember people visited our home to offer thanks.
[Options: visited/visiting/visit]
Answer: visiting.
12) There was nothing mystery about prayer.
[Options: mystic/mysterious/mysterious]
Answer: mysterious
13) I remember my father started his day at 4 a.m.
[Options: starting/start/starts]
Answer: starting.
14) I normally ate with my mother, seated on the floor of the kitchen.
(Options: sat/seating/sitin
Answer: sitting
15) I was total convinced that they reached God.
[Options: totally/totality/totaling]
Answer: totally
16) Our locality was predominated Muslim.
[Options: predominate/predominating/predominantly]
Answer: predominantly.
17) My Father told me there was nothing mystic about prayer.
[Options: mysterious/mystery/miserable]
Answer: mysterious.
18) My austere father used to avoid all unessential comforts and luxuries.
[Options: essence/essential/ inessential]
Answer: inessential.
19) This remained his routine even when he was in his late sixty.
[Options: seventies/sixties/fities]
Answer: sixties.
20) He had an ideal helper in my mother, Ashiamma.
[Options : help/helpmate/helping]
Answer: helpmate.
21) My mother’s lineage was the more distinguishable.
[Options: distinguished/distinguishing/distinguish]
Answer: distinguished.
22) I had not the finest idea of the meaning of the Arabic prayers chanted
[Options: faintest/fantastic/faintly]
Answer: faintest.
THANK YOU MAM
1) You might run that comb through your hair so you will look present. [ Options : presently / presentable / presenting ]
ON KILLING A TREE
1) It takes such time to kill a tree. [Option: much/more/little]
2) The bleeding bark will hail. [Option: hell/heal/hall]
3) Not a simple job of the knife will do it. [Option: zip/jab/jef]
4) The root is to be pulling out. [Option: pull/pulls/pulled]
5) It has groth slowly consuming the earth. [Option: grow/grew/grown]
SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY
1) Shall I compare thee with a summer’s day? [Option: for/to/than]
2) Rough winds does shake the darling buds of May. [Option: do/doing/done]
3) But thou eternal summer shall not fade. [Option: thee/thy/you]
4) Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shine. [Option: decline/declines/sahin]
5) And summers leas hath too short a date. [Option: summer’s/summer/soma]
6) And every fair from fair sometime decline.
[Options: declination / declivity / declines]
Answer: declines
7) Thou art more lovely and more temperamental.
[Options: temperate/temperature/temper]
Answer: temperate.
8) And summers lease has to sort a date.
[Options: summer’s / summer / summer time]
Answer: summer’s.
THE POETRY OF EARTH
1) The poetry of earth is seizure never. [Option: ceasing/seizing/ceased]
2) That is the Grasshopper–he takes the lead in summer luxuriant. [Option: luxurious/luxuriate/luxury]
3) On a lone winter evening the frost has written a silence. [Option: rot/wrote/wrought]
4) He has never do with his delights. [Option: done/doing/donned]
5) From the stove there sills the Cricket’s song in warmth increasing ever. [Option: shrills/sings/sells]
Three Questions:
1) When the Tsar approaches, the hermit was digging the ground.
[Options: approach/approaching/approached]
Answer: approached.
2) They all answered to his questions diferent.
[Options: differently/differ/differentiate]
Answer: differently.
3) He would never failed in anything he might undertake.
[Options: fail / failing / had failed. ]
Answer: fail.
4) “Here comes someone running” said the hermit, “let us see which it is.”
[Options: who / whom / that]
Answer: who.
5) It was impossible for one man to decided correctly.
Options: will decide / has decided / decide.
Answer: decide.
6) He struck his spade among the ground.
[Option: into on over.]
Answer: into.
7) The hermit listened to the Tsar but did not answer nothing.
[Options: answered / give answer / did not give answer]
Answer: answered.
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