101.
(a) Kalidas is
(b) a Shakespeare
(c) of India.
Answer: (b) ‘a’ should be replaced with ‘the’. Here Kalidas is not Shakespeare but he is compared to Shakespeare.
102.
(a) The teacher as well as his students,
(b) all left
(c) for the trip.
Answer: (b) Delete ‘all’before ‘left’. Here the usage of‘all’issuperfluous as ‘the teacher as well as his students’itself signifies everyone.
103.
(a) More you
(b) think of it,
(c) the worse it becomes.
Answer: (a) Add ‘the’ before ‘more’. Here the sentence consists of two clauses- Principal and Subordinate, where the Principal clause should be given more stress by adding ‘the’ before ‘more’.
104.
(a) I worked
(b) as medical representative
(c) for eight months.
Answer: No error.
105.
(a) Shakespeare has written
(b) many plays
(c) as well as some poetries.
Answer: (c), Shakespeare has written many plays as well as few poetry.
Poetry is an Uncountable Noun or Mass Noun; which means a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form.
106.
(a) Neither of the girls ,
(b) were willing to,
(c) accept the proposal.
Answer: (b), Neither of the girls are willing to accept the proposal.
107.
(a) A interesting book ,
(b) A Tale of two
(c) cities, was written by Alexander Dumas.
Answer: .(a), The correct sentence should be- ‘An interesting book ‘ A tale of two cities’ was written by Alexander Dumas.
Article ‘a’ in the first part should be replaced by ‘an’because it is followed by a vowel letter.
108.
(a) In India ,
(b) there are,
(c) many poors.
Answer: (c), In India, there are many poor. Poors is no word. Poor refer to all the poor people.
109.
(a) Having lived
(b) in Kerala for ten years,
(c) my friend is used to speak Malayalam with his friends.
Answer: (c) Speak in Malayalam.
110.
(a) Much water
(b) has flown
(c) under this bridge.
Answer: (b) flowed
111.
(a) The law should specifically
(b) provide a clause
(c) to protect animals from poachers.
Answer: No error.
112.
(a) What kind
(b) of a man
(c) are you?
Answer: (b)
113.
(a) The lady approached me timidly
(b) and trembling
(c) she sat down besides me.
Answer: (c) beside
114.
(a) When one hears of the incident
(b) about the plane crash
(c) he feels very sorry.
Answer: (b) Here, indefinite article i.e. about a plane crash should be used. No particular incident is evident here.
115.
(a) I went there
(b) with a view to survey
(c) the entire procedure.
Answer: (b) With a View to should be followed by gerund i.e. suveying.
116.
(a) It had laid
(b) in the closet
(c) for a week before we found it.
Answer: (a) Here, time period is given. Hence. Past Perfect Continuous i.e. It had been lying ….should be used.
117.
(a) He was present
(b) in the court
(c) to give witness.
Answer: (c) Here, to provide evidence/ as a witness …. should be used.
118.
(a) He laughed
(b) her
(c) as she fell off the tree.
Answer: (b) Here, it is a preposition related error. Hence, at her should be used here.
119.
(a) In 6906 a earthquake
(b) destroyed much
(c) of San Francisco.
Answer: (a) In 6906 an earthquake destroyed much of San Francisco. Instead of ‘a’ before earthquake, article ‘an’ should be used because it is followed by a vowel letter.
120.
(a) His parents does not
(b) approve of
(c) his business.
Answer: .(a) His parents don’t approve of his business.
In English, don’t is used when speaking in the first and second person plural and singular and the third person plural (“I,” “you,” “we,” and “they”).Doesn’t, on the other hand, is used when speaking in the third person singular only (“he,” “she,” and “it”).