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CORRECTION

3.The clothes / were neatly / hanged /on the cloth line.

A

6. 6.I believe / that respect / is more preferable than / money.

A

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5.The firm show / began / when we arrived / in the hall.

A

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4.The major / along with / his soldiers / were killed in the field/.
A

PRACTICE SET

7. I never have / visited / or intend to visit / foreign countries /

A

8.In this way nuclear fission / or the splitting / of the atom / have been
achieved /
Read each sentence to find if there is any grammatical error in it. If there is
any error, it will be only one part of the sentence. The number or alphabet
of that part is your answer.
( Disregard punctuation errors if any)

9.Modern film techniques / are far superior / than that / employed in the
past /
A

1 I shall / ring him / tomorrow / in the afternoon.

A

10. No sooner the news appeared in the paper/ than / there was a rush / in
the counter/

2. I enjoyed / during my / stay in / England.

A
A

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4. was killed in place of were killed.
Answers and Explanation:

5. had begun in place of hegan

1. B

6. 'preferable to ' in place of 'more preferable than' . ' preferable ' is word
indicating

2. A
3. C

a comparative sense and thus is more superfluous. Secondly ' prefer ' is
followed by 'to'.

4. D

7. ' nor' in place of 'or' . Nor is used after neither.

5. B

8. ' Has been ' in place of ' have been ' . when two subjects are joined by
'or' . It is treated as singular.

6. C
7. C
8. D
9. C
10. A

EXPLANATION:
1. ' Ring him up' in palace of ' ring him '. Ring up is the correct idiom.
2. ' I enjoyed myself' in place of ' I enjoyed' . Some verbs take reflexive
pronouns after them.
3. 'Hung' in place of ' hanged' .' Hanged' is used for living beings an ung is
used for other objects.

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9. ' To those ' in place of ' than that' , superiors followed by 'to' .
Techniques is a plural subject and thus the pronoun for it must be plural .
Thus ' those' in place of 'that'
10. ' No sooner had the news appeared' in place of ' No sooner the news
appeared'. 'No sooner' is used in 2 forms 1. No sooner had and 2. no sooner
did.