Error Spotting Test - 2

The correct sentence is ‘Dr Margolin admitted to himself that his wife was right’.

The correct sentence is ‘The cheerful Cuban volunteers, with the help of the fire department, picked up the debris in less than six hours’.

The correct sentence is ‘The station was full of soldiers with brown baggages’.

The correct sentence is ‘He was unwilling now to talk with the townsfolk’.

The correct sentence is ‘It is exhausting to follow rules dictated by parental guide-books all the time’.

Coordinating conjunctions allow you to join words, phrases, and clauses of equal grammatical rank in a sentence. When there is a need to suggest a refinement to the first clause then the conjunction 'or' should be used. The correct sentence is ‘It is important that you work hard or we will have to disqualify you’.

A negative sentence takes a positive question tag. The correct tag is ‘has she?’

When there is ‘does’ in a sentence, verb will be singular. Hence the correct sentence will be ‘The boys will play outside if it does not rain’.

'Me' is an object form of the personal pronoun I' and hence instead of 'me', 'I' should be used. Hence the sentence is ‘Ragini and I are like sisters but from different mothers’.

Past tense of a verb is used when we write a sentence like ‘It is high time..’ Hence leave is the correct form of verb to be used. The correct sentence is ‘It is high time I leave this office’.