DIRECTIONS : 1 – 10 :      Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is E.

1. Earth / revolves / round / the Sun.

                    A                 B              C                D

2. The rich / should / help / the poor.

                        A               B             C            D

3. The women / of / this country / are brave.

                           A              B                C                       D

4. Dog / is / a faithful / animal.

                  A       B           C               D

5. He worked / for / the benefit / of disabled.

                            A             B                   C                     D

6. My brother is / most popular student / in / his Class.

              A                                B                        C             D

7. The more /you work, the / more / you get .

                           A                    B                       C              D

8. The / Judge in him /condemned him / to death .

                 A                     B                              C                           D

9. He has / no / scruples for / begging .

                      A         B                 C                     D

10. He would / flatter you / on / your face .

                       A                     B                  C            D

 EXPLANATORY ANSWERS

 A ( Use article ‘The’ before )

 The names of unique things ( the sun, the moon ) .

• The Superlative degree ( e.g. the best , the worst ) .

• The name of states , countries etc., having a descriptive     name ( e.g. Punjab, U.K. ) .

• The name of scriptures ( g. Gita , Ramayana )  .

• The name of newspapers.

• The name of famous buildings.

• The name of rivers, canals, seas, ocean, group of islands etc.

• The name of nationals, sects and communities etc.

2. E No Error
3. A
4. A          ‘The dog’ To denote the class of dog  .
5. D          ‘The disabled’ To denote the class of disabled  .
6. B          The most  .
7. E          No Error
8. E          No error
9. C          ‘scruples in’  .
10. C ‘to your face’  .

 ENGLISH CHAPTER  : 2

DIRECTIONS : Q. 1 – 10 : Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer as E.

1. Unless he / will be / more careful, he / will not recover .

                     A                  B                       C                                D

2. Wait here / Until your brother / do not return .

                        A                                 B                                    C

3. Work hard / lest you / may not fail.

                          A                   B                       C

4. He talked / as if / he had been mad.

                           A             B                C

5. He was driving / some one else / car, not ours.

                               A                               B                              C

6. Rajiv is / more abler / than / his friend.

                       A                   B                  C               D

7. His brother is / junior than / mine.

                              A                          B                      C

8. It would be a great advantage / if industrial management took  long / hard look / at the information provided .

                                           A                                                                      B                                                        C                                        D

9. I missed the train / that I usually catch / and have to travel by  next / which was a slow train .

                                   A                                     B                                                C                                                        D

10. Ritu is prettier / than any other / woman member / of the family .

                          A                                 B                                      C                                D

EXPLANATORY ANSWERS 

ENGLISH  CHAPTER   :  2

1. A “Unless he is ……………..”  .
2. C “Until your brother returns”, Use of not is not   allowed with unless, lest and until because they  are already in the negative sense  .

3. C “lest you should fail”. Lest is always followed by should and is used in the sense of so that ………….not .

4. No error. “As if” is used in the sense of pretension .
5. B “someone else’ s car………………….”  .
6. B “more able”, . ‘Double comparative’ or  ‘Double superlative’ should not be used  .

7. B ‘junior to …………’. .

Comparatives as superior, inferior, prior , senior, posterior, anterior etc. ending in the suffix “or” are followed by “to”.

8. B “…………………took a long hard look …………..”

9. C Instead of ‘have’ it should be ‘had’ to agree with  the form of verb in previous clause .

10. C “Any other woman of the family” .