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MTS English – Error Spotting & Sentence Improvement (Topic Test)
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- The test contains 20 questions.
- Each question has 4 options, of which only one is correct.
- You have to finish the test in 16 minutes.
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This free practice set from AndamanJobs has 20 questions to be solved in 16 minutes. Every question is listed below with four options. Open Show answer and explanation under a question to see the correct option and why it is correct. Try the timed test above first, then use this list to revise the questions you got wrong.
- Some part of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate correct option. If a sentence is free from error, blacken the circle corresponding to "No Error" option in the Answer Sheet.
By the time the fox came the sheeps were safely in their pens out of the fox's reach.- A. By the time the fox came
- B. out of the fox's reach.
- C. No error
- D. the sheeps were safely in their pens
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. the sheeps were safely in their pens
'Sheep' has the same form in the plural; 'sheeps' is wrong.
- Find the part with an error: John as well as his friends have left.
- A. have left
- B. John as well as
- C. No error
- D. his friends
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. have left
With 'as well as' the verb agrees with the first subject John, so it should be 'has left'.
- Some part of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate correct option. If a sentence is free from error, blacken the circle corresponding to "No Error" option in the Answer Sheet.
Desserts can be furnace-hot by day yet freezing at night.- A. No error
- B. furnace-hot by day
- C. Desserts can be
- D. yet freezing at night.
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. Desserts can be
Places that are hot by day and freezing at night are 'Deserts'; 'Desserts' (sweet dishes) is the wrong word.
- Find the part with an error: I cannot do now what I have done ten years ago.
- A. No error
- B. I cannot do now
- C. what I have done
- D. ten years ago
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. what I have done
With 'ten years ago' the simple past is required: 'what I did'.
- Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
She operates the machinery / more efficiently than / any member of the team.- A. any member of the team.
- B. more efficiently than
- C. She operates the machinery
- D. No error
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. any member of the team.
- Find the part with an error: My house can be seen going to the station.
- A. No error
- B. My house
- C. going to the station
- D. can be seen
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. going to the station
The phrase 'going to the station' wrongly seems to describe the house. The correct sentence is 'My house can be seen while going to the station.'
- A sentence or a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose "No Improvement".
The stranger asked the little girl what is her name.- A. what her name is
- B. No improvement
- C. what her name was
- D. what was her name
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Answer: C. what her name was
In reported speech the question becomes a statement in past tense: 'what her name was'.
- Identify the error: "The news are very good."
- A. news
- B. The
- C. are
- D. very good
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. are
News is a singular noun, so the verb should be is.
- Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Neither the team captain / nor the players / was present at the press meet.- A. nor the players
- B. Neither the team captain
- C. was present at the press meet.
- D. No error
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. was present at the press meet.
- A sentence or a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose "No Improvement".
He cannot deceive me however clever he shall be.- A. he shan't be
- B. No improvement
- C. he should be
- D. he may be
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. he may be
'However clever he may be' is the correct idiomatic construction.
- Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
He is one of those men / who always does his best / in crucial projects.- A. who always does his best
- B. in crucial projects.
- C. He is one of those men
- D. No error
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Answer: A. who always does his best
- A sentence or a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose "No Improvement".
It is no good crying over spilt milk.- A. It is of no good to cry
- B. It is of no good crying
- C. No improvement
- D. It is no good to cry
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Answer: C. No improvement
The sentence is a correct proverb; no improvement is needed.
- A sentence or a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed choose "No Improvement".
India is a key player in space research, thankful to the excellence of the Indian Space Research Organization.- A. in praise of
- B. grateful to
- C. thanks to
- D. No improvement
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. thanks to
'Thanks to' means 'because of', which fits the meaning; 'thankful to' is wrong here.
- Some part of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate correct option. If a sentence is free from error, blacken the circle corresponding to "No Error" option in the Answer Sheet.
He switched on the light as soon as he entered the room.- A. No error
- B. entered the room.
- C. He switched on
- D. the light as soon as he
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. No error
The printed key shows option D (the light as soon as he), but the sentence is grammatically correct, so the answer is No error.
- Choose the option that best replaces the highlighted phrase.
The structural project could not progress because little resources were available.- A. few resources were available
- B. less resources were available
- C. a little resources were available
- D. No improvement
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. few resources were available
- Find the part with an error: He and me are partners in this construction firm.
- A. this construction firm
- B. No error
- C. He and me
- D. are partners in
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. He and me
'Me' is an object pronoun; the subject should be 'He and I'.
- Improve the underlined part: Whose necklace is stolen yesterday?
- A. necklaces was stolen
- B. necklace was stolen
- C. necklaces were stolen
- D. No improvement
Show answer and explanation
Answer: B. necklace was stolen
'Yesterday' needs the past tense: 'Whose necklace was stolen yesterday?'
- Some part of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate correct option. If a sentence is free from error, blacken the circle corresponding to "No Error" option in the Answer Sheet.
The condition of the people living in rural areas are very bad.- A. The condition of the people
- B. living in rural areas
- C. are very bad.
- D. No error
Show answer and explanation
Answer: C. are very bad.
The subject is the singular 'condition', so the verb should be 'is'.
- Find the part with an error: The woman who nothing could frighten was upset.
- A. No error
- B. could frighten was upset
- C. The woman
- D. who nothing
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. who nothing
The object relative pronoun should be 'whom': 'The woman whom nothing could frighten'.
- Some part of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and blacken the circle corresponding to the appropriate correct option. If a sentence is free from error, blacken the circle corresponding to "No Error" option in the Answer Sheet.
The police have arrested all the dangerous criminal.- A. the dangerous criminal.
- B. No error
- C. arrested all
- D. The police have
Show answer and explanation
Answer: A. the dangerous criminal.
'All' needs a plural noun: 'the dangerous criminals'.