Common Error Detection - Study Mode

[#11] If successful, the research could / pave the way towards / the prevention in untimely deaths / due to fatal illnesses.
Correct Answer

(D) due to fatal illnesses

Explanation

Solution: Change, due to fatal illnesses → due to fatal illness.

[#12] The Ministry has directed banks / to do away with their / separate promotion policies, a move / strongly opposed by the officers' unions.
Correct Answer

(D) strongly opposed by the officers' unions

Explanation

Solution: Change, strongly opposed by the officers' unions → strongly opposed by the officers' union.

[#13] After a complaint was filed, / police teams was given the photograph / of the accused from the CCTV footage / recorded at the hotel.
Correct Answer

(B) police teams was given the photograph

Explanation

Solution: Change, police teams was given the photograph → police team was given the photograph

[#14] Activists opposing the rail project said / that the eleven new flyovers to be built / would practically ring / the death knell for the city.
Correct Answer

Activists opposing the rail project said

Explanation

Solution: Sentence is correct.

[#15] It is common / knowledge that each / of us / loves our home.
Correct Answer

(D) loves our home

Explanation

Solution: Change, loves our home → loves his/her home. The pronoun 'his/her' must correspond to the subject each of us, implying singular.