English: Error Spotting for Upcoming Exams – Set 131

There is error in one of the parts in the following sentences. Mark the option which contains parts (A, B, C, D) which contain error. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer

1. (A) The European Union (EU) has had a democratic legitimacy problem for years: Its /(B) governing bodies—with the exception of those that consist of national leaders and ministers—are /(C) neither particularly responsive nor /(D) account to ordinary European voters.
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   account to = accountable to

    

2. (A) Once in Brussels, legislators from national parties form into transnational factions /(B) with unfamiliar names and leaders; /(C) confusingly, they also can’t propose laws—they have to ask the European Commission, the /(D) closest the EU has to the government, to introduce legislation.
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   the government = a government here, the sentence is not talking about any specific government.

    

3. (A) Citizens who have more in common with their peers across borders rather than their fellow /(B) nationals would finally be more connected and better represented.” /(C) If the experiment worked, it could be gradually /(D) expanded to the entire parliament.
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option A
   rather than = than “Than” is used for comparison and “rather than”is used to show that something is less preferred than the other.

    

4. (A) If the EU were serious about making its decision process more transparent and democratic, it /(B) might want to recall an /(C) old proposal from former UK foreign minister Jack Straw that the European /(D) Parliament be abolished altogether.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option E
   

    

5. (A) A political show on the scale of a US presidential election—and with candidates campaigning /(B) in every country of the bloc—could /(C) add up to the EU’s democratic legitimacy and give the bloc a public face on a par with superpower /(D) leaders, not just a top bureaucrat.
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option C
   add up to = add to add up to = convey; add = count

    

6. (A) AI is going to radically improve productivity and welfare in ways such as accelerating vaccine /(B) development, improving /(C) medical diagnostics, increasing /(D) highway safety and reducing traffic congestion.
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option E
   

    

7. (A) The doomsayers argues that if capital is sufficiently cheap or productive, automation /(B) will lead to the substitution of labour in those tasks. This is /(C) a correct, albeit incomplete, analysis because structural unemployment /(D) in world economy has not increased significantly since the Industrial Revolution
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option A
   argues = argue doomsayers is a plural noun

    

8. (A) In pursuit of solving the new problems and meeting the new demands, entrepreneurs and /(B) businesses will create jobs. Therefore, there /(C) is a powerful reinstatement effect /(D) working opposite the displacement effect in labour markets
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   B
   C
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   Option A
   omit “the ” before new problems. Uncountables do not take determiner with them.

    

9. (A) The AI-first economy will create new tasks and demand new skills, and investments in human /(B) capital will be at the heart of /(C) any long-term strategy for producing skills /(D) that are complementary, rather than substituted, by AI.
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   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   complementary = complemented complementary = integral complemented = integrate

    

10. (A) The mission lays emphasis on creating infrastructure, improving /(B) service delivery, making cities smarter /(C) for improved livelihood and providing for faster and integrated mobility.
    A
    B
    C
    D
    NE
    Option E