Spotting Error Verbal MCQs with Answer - Exercise II

Ques 1 Spotting Error

Choose the one which has some or any grammatical error in it:

A The government has significantly weakened the critical duty imposed by the law on patentees/licensees to disclose patent working information.
B Too much of strong leadership has robbed India of its democratic exuberance and constitutional dynamism.
C Core sectors recorded yet another contraction in November, with cement and steel slipping back after a minor uptick.
D Many of his pieces have designs incised or in relief, and others are skilful decorated with gold and silver.

The sentence with a grammatical error is:
d) Many of his pieces have designs incised or in relief, and others are skilful decorated with gold and silver.
Correction: The word "skilful" should be "skilfully" to correctly modify the verb "decorated."
So the corrected sentence is: "Many of his pieces have designs incised or in relief, and others are skilfully decorated with gold and silver."

Ques 2 Spotting Error

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

The Committee agreed / that small businesses / has been adversely affected / by COVID19.

A that small businesses
B has been adversely affected
C by COVID-19
D The Committee agreed

The part that contains the error is:
b) has been adversely affected
Correction: The verb should be "have been" instead of "has been" because "small businesses" is plural.
So, the corrected sentence is: "The Committee agreed that small businesses have been adversely affected by COVID-19."