Covers AN ASSORTMENT OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS.
Following are the answers and EXPLANATIONS.
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1941. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
The book, with its contents in toto, have been banned.
a) Use of a plural verb for a subject in singular number.
EXPLANATION:'has been'. The subject is 'The book'. It is in singular.
1942. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
"Either the opposition or I am foolish", said the Chief Minister.
c) Error of proximity in subject-verb agreement
EXPLANATION:'is foolish'.
1943. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
It was him who hit a century, when all the other batsmen failed to reach the double digits.
b) Use of objective case for a pronoun which is a complement of the verb 'to be'.
EXPLANATION:'It was he'. 'Who' is in subjective case. 'He' should, hence, be in subjective case.
1944. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
My car gave me trouble, which is the cause of my absence at the Conference.
b) Not using the demonstrative pronoun 'this' instead of 'which' .
EXPLANATION:'This' adequately serves the purpose.
1945. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
The outgoing President is feeling that he should get a second opportunity to serve.
b) Use of continuous tense of the principal verb.
EXPLANATION:'The outgoing President feels'. Feel in certain 'meanings' does not allow use of continuous tense.
1946. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
The Governor is seeing his village for the first time after his elevation to the high post.
d) No error.
EXPLANATION:The verb 'see' in the meaning of 'visit' allows continuous tense.
1947. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
The opposition leaders are disagreeing with everything the Secretary of the State says.
a) Incorrect continuous tense.
EXPLANATION:'The opposition leaders disagree'. The verb does not allow continuous tense.
1948. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
Not that he loved France less, but that he loved the dollars and the opportunities more, he preferred to settle down in U.S.
c) Use of the superfluous preposition 'but'.
EXPLANATION:
1949. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes and thou shall be satisfied with bread! (Proverbs 20:13)
d) No error.
EXPLANATION:Use of 'should' with lest, is a later-day development. Biblical usage allowed it.
1950. Identify the nature of grammatical error in the following sentence:
Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. (Kings:9:25)
d) No error.
EXPLANATION:Biblical tradition.
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