English: Error Spotting for Upcoming Exams – Set 185

Directions (Q.1-10) In each of the questions given below a sentence is given which is then divided into five parts, out of which the last part is correct. There is an error in three parts of the sentence and only one part is correct out of 4 left. You have to choose the correct part as your answer.

1. It’s rather worrisome that literature in India has become formulaic./ Authors are cashing in trends like campus novels,/ mythology, self-help, and with no one is pushing the envelope./ It takes the focus away to writing good books/ to selling bad books.
   It’s rather worrisome that literature in India has become formulaic
   Authors are cashing in trends like campus novels,
   mythology, self-help, and with no one is pushing the envelope
   It takes the focus away to writing good books
   All are correct
   Option A
   In B, cashing in on(correct usage)
   In C, omit ‘with’ before no one
   In D, replace ‘to’ by ‘from’

    

2. Our retrogressive thinking is destroying us./ We keep ourselves entangled in futile discussions about God and heaven,/ and remain busy in talking about soul and God/ which isn’t just enough in times/ we live in today.
   Our retrogressive thinking is destroying us.
   We keep ourselves entangled in futile discussions about God and heaven,
   and remain busy in talking about soul and God
   which isn’t just enough in times
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

3. In India we have fed the story which/ private sector are infallible and has the answer/ to economic problems while it is the public sector/ that is the albatross around the India’s neck/ and which needs to be phased out.
   In India we have fed the story which
   private sector are infallible and has the answer
   to economic problems while it is the public sector
   that is the albatross around the India’s neck
   All are correct
   Option C
   In A, replace ‘which’ with ‘that’
   In B, replace ‘are’ with ‘is’
   In D, omit ‘the’ before India

    

4. A great education is one in which the/ child learns to observe, predict, understand,/ think critically and intensively and apply her/ education to solve challenges and contribute to/ moving society forward.
   A great education is one in which the
   child learns to observe, predict, understand,
   think critically and intensively and apply her
   education to solve challenges and contribute to
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

5. The British strategy of intellectual control was implemented by/ crafting a system of education rather brute coercion/. Although the best of our thinker outmaneuvered this system/, it has created acute anxiety among/ self-reflexive thinkers.
   The British strategy of intellectual control was implemented by
   crafting a system of education rather brute coercion
   Although the best of our thinker outmaneuvered this system
   it has created acute anxiety among
   All are correct
   Option A
   In B, correct usage ‘rather than’
   In C, replace ‘thinker’ by ‘thinkers’
   In D, omit ‘has’ before created

    

6. By digital means straddling across the spheres of reading as well,/ the future of hard paperbacks looks uncertainly now./ Whether it will grow, plateau, or decline/ could be deciding by the viability of/ digital reading technologies.
   By digital means straddling across the spheres of reading as well,
   the future of hard paperbacks looks uncertainly now
   Whether it will grow, plateau, or decline
   could be deciding by the viability of
   All are correct
   Option C
   In A, replace ‘by’ with ‘with’
   In B, replace ‘uncertainly’ by ‘uncertain’
   In D, replace ‘deciding’ by ‘ decided’

    

7. When those who listen to/ a speech take objection to/ what a speaker is saying,/ they too are exercising their/ right to free speech.
   When those who listen to
   a speech take objection to
   what a speaker is saying,
   they too are exercising their
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

8. The bestselling phenomenon corrupt writing./ It focuses on game the system./ Indians today are reading the bestselling books,/ not the best books and we could only wish/ for the situation to be otherwise.
   The bestselling phenomenon corrupt writing
   It focuses on game the system
   Indians today are reading the bestselling books,
   not the best books and we could only wish
   All are correct
   Option C
   In A, replace ‘corrupt’ by corrupts’
   In B, replace ‘game’ by ‘gaming’
   In D, replace ‘could’ by ‘can’

    

9. The art of putting across one’s point of view/ in a way that makes the listener or reader/ pause and think rather than/ react strongly is not easy./ It involves restraint on both sides.
   The art of putting across one’s point of view
   in a way that makes the listener or reader
   pause and think rather than
   react strongly is not easy
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

10. Often, the term experiential get/ thrown around a lot by schools/ that focus overtly on be so/ without understanding the purpose from/ actually doing so.
    Often, the term experiential get
    thrown around a lot by schools
    that focus overtly on be so
    without understanding the purpose from
    All are correct
    Option B
    In A, replace ‘get’ by ‘gets’
    In C, replace ‘be’ by ‘being’
    In D, replace ‘from’ with ‘of’