Common Error Detection - Study Mode

[#411] Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence. The President had hardly spoken / a few words / when the microphone stopped functioning.
Correct Answer

(D) No error

Explanation

Solution: The sentence "The President had hardly spoken a few words when the microphone stopped functioning" is grammatically correct. The structure of the sentence properly uses the past perfect tense had hardly spoken to indicate an action that was interrupted by another past action. The phrase a few words is correctly placed as the object of the verb spoken . The clause when the microphone stopped functioning appropriately follows to describe the interruption.

[#412] Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence. Locke's treatises on government toleration and education / show a mind fully awake in / the possibilities of social reconstruction.
Correct Answer

(B) show a mind fully awake in

Explanation

Solution: show a mind fully alert to

[#413] Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence. You will get / all the information / if you read this booklet carefully.
Correct Answer

(A) You will get

Explanation

Solution: you can get

[#414] Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence. None of the students attending your class / answered your questions / did they?
Correct Answer

(C) did they?

Explanation

Solution: 'did one' or 'did any'

[#415] Find out whether there is any grammatical error in below sentence. An animal / can be just as unhappy in a vast area / or in a small one
Correct Answer

(C) or in a small one

Explanation

Solution: as in a small one