Grammar and Sentence Correction Exercises for SSC CGL PDF:
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Grammar and Sentence Correction Exercises for SSC CGL PDF
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Instructions:
In the following questions,some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. Your answer is ‘d’ i.e., No error.
Question 1:
He is a university professor/but of his three sons/neither has any merit./No error.
a) He is a university professor
b) but of his three sons
c) neither has any merit.
d) No error
Question 2:
After knowing truth,/they took the right decision/in the matter./No error.
a) After knowing truth,
b) they took the right decision
c) in the matter.
d) No error
Question 3:
It is time you/decide on your next/course of action./No error.
a) It is time you
b) decide on your next
c) course of action.
d) No error
Question 4:
It is time you/decide on your next/course of action./No error.
a) It is time you
b) decide on your next
c) course of action.
d) No error
Question 5:
A cup of coffee/is an excellent complement/to smoked salmon./No error.
a) A cup of coffee
b) is an excellent complement
c) to smoked salmon.
d) No error
Solutions:
1) Answer (c)
Neither is used to describe the absence of two things and is usually followed by the use of nor. ‘None’ is used to describe the quality of each object/person in the buch/group of objects/persons.
So ‘neither has any merit’ should be replaced by ‘none of them has any merit’.
2) Answer (a)
There should be ‘the’ in between knowing and truth, because truth is a common noun.
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3) Answer (b)
The word ‘on’ can be omitted from the phrase ‘decide on your next course of action’.
4) Answer (c)
The phrase ‘let him speak’ is incomplete and has to be replaced by ‘should be let to speak’.
5) Answer (d)
There is no grammatical and vocabulary related error in the sentence.
