This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Editing And Proofreading > Error Recognition – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Error Recognition Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the error in the sentence: "They was happy with their results." A) Were. B) Been. C) Is. D) Be. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 2. The storm prevented us to go out. A) Storm. B) The. C) Us. D) To go out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To go out. 3. If I were her, I'll quit that job immediately and look for another one. A) I'll quit. B) Were. C) Immediately. D) Another one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'll quit. 4. You look very tired, you are going to stay at home and relax. A) Are going to. B) Relax. C) Tired. D) Look. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are going to. 5. The guide who's (A) hometown is Sapa recommended (B) us a 2-day (C) trekking tour to Fansipan (D). A) C. B) B. C) D. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 6. Early European settlers in North America used medicines made from plants to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar with Malaria. A) With. B) Made. C) An. D) In. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With. 7. Identify the error in the sentence: "She don't has any siblings." A) Doesn't has. B) Doesn't have. C) Don't have. D) Don't has. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doesn't have. 8. The report was delivered to the director's office at 11:00 this morning, wasn't he? A) Wasn't he?. B) The director's office. C) The report. D) Delivered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wasn't he?. 9. We wish today was sunny so that we could spend the day in the country communing with nature. A) So that. B) Could spend. C) Was. D) In the country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was. 10. Some of the most useful resistormaterial are carbon, metals and metallic alloys. A) Some of. B) Most useful resistor. C) Material. D) Metallic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Material. 11. We received some samples from the factory, which did not meet the required standard. A) The sentence is faulty in diction or contains grammatical errors. B) The sentence is too wordy or redundant. C) The sentence contains cliches and or mis-used metaphors. D) The sentence is acceptable as it stands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sentence is acceptable as it stands. 12. The equipment in the office was badly in need of to be repaired. A) In the office. B) Was badly. C) Equipment. D) To be repaired. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To be repaired. 13. Trustworthy (A) legislators must be accountability (B) for (C)the promises they made to their (D) voters A) Accountability. B) For. C) Trustworthy. D) Their. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accountability. 14. The composer Verdi has written (A) the opera Aida to celebrate (B) the opening of (C) the Suez Canal, but the opera was not performed (D) until 1871 A) B. B) C. C) D. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 15. If you don't know what (A) that word means (B), try to look (C) it on (D) in the dictionary. A) D. B) A. C) C. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) D. 16. Conjugate the verb in the following sentence. (present tense)Marta ..... (estudiar) todos los dias. A) Estudian. B) Estudio. C) Estudia. D) Estudias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Estudia. 17. It is no use crying over spilt milk when the birds have flown. A) C. B) B. C) D. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 18. (Error recognition)The books that I read was interesting. A) Read. B) That. C) Interesting. D) Was. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was. 19. The first symptom of heart attack is a feeling of tight or pressure in the central part of the chest, spreading to the back, jaw and arms. A) Of. B) Is. C) Tight. D) Spreading. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tight. 20. That is the man which told me the bad news. A) The. B) Which. C) The. D) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Which. 21. When (A) Andrew saw (B) the question, he were knowing (C) the answer immediately (D). A) A. B) D. C) B. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) C. 22. Food prices have raised so rapidly(A) in the past few months that (B)some families have beenforced to (C)alter their eating habits. (D) A) Forced to. B) Raised so rapidly. C) That. D) Alter their eating habits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raised so rapidly. 23. We could reach the survivors neither by boat or by plane, and so we abandoned our search as futile. A) Or. B) Neither. C) No error. D) As. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Or. 24. Daisy and I contacted the jeweler because we had heard she would be able to finding us a great engagement ring. A) Would be. B) Had heard. C) To finding. D) Contacted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To finding. 25. In (A) communication, we can have the voice recognition systems (B) in smartphones or other (C)electronic devices to be identified (D) our speech. A) C. B) D. C) B. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. 26. Peter and David are (A) playing the (B) piano in (C) the living (D) room in the morning yesterday A) A. B) C. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 27. The victims of(A) the eviction(B) approved to(C) the compensation given(D) by the company A) To. B) Eviction. C) Given. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. 28. Choose the correct word to complete the sentence:'She is the ..... of the two sisters.' A) Tallest. B) Taller. C) Most tall. D) More tall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taller. 29. A number of critics agrees that Jack Nicholson, who usually plays the calm, cool and collected type, was a strange choice for the leading role in The Shining. A) Agrees. B) Plays. C) Who. D) Critics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agrees. 30. In 1908 Olive Campbell started writing down folk songs by rural people in the southern Appalachian mountains near hers home A) Writing. B) The. C) Folk songs. D) Hers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hers. 31. I love swimming (A) which are (B) a good sport for (C) my health (D). A) A. B) B. C) D. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 32. In the past, the Egyptians discovered that drying fruit preserved it, made it sweeter, and improvement its flavor. A) Drying fruit. B) Improvement. C) Discovered. D) It. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Improvement. 33. Given that the mother walks very slowly and that the son never seems to be in much of a rush, it is safe to say that the family likes to take their time. A) Their. B) It is. C) Never. D) Given. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their. 34. If a crisis would occur, those unfamiliar with the procedures would not know how to handle the situation. A) Would occur. B) Those unfamiliar. C) The. D) How to handle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Would occur. 35. Nam (A) wishes (B) he can speak (C) English fluently (D). A) C. B) A. C) D. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C. 36. Some of the agricultural practices used today is responsible for fostering desertification. A) Used. B) Fostering. C) Is. D) Practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 37. There isn't (A) many (B) information (C) about the case (D) yet (E). A) C. B) B. C) D. D) E. E) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 38. Clock had been invented during ancient time, pre-historic people wouldn't have used the changes of shadow cast by the sun to tell time. A) Clock had. B) Cast. C) Used. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clock had. 39. Bentwood, which is a wood that has been artificially formed into a curve, is usually used for making furnitures. A) Which. B) Has been artificially. C) Making. D) Furnitures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Furnitures. 40. In summer, warm southern air carries moist north to the eastern and central United States. A) Moist. B) In summer. C) Central. D) Air carries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moist. 41. Identify the error in the sentence: "She could of gone to the concert." A) Could has. B) Could have. C) Could have been. D) Could be. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Could have. 42. Most (a) small appliances have nine-days (b) guarantees that entitle the purchaser to free repair (c) or replacement if the item breaks hard (d) on hard surface. A) D. B) B. C) C. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 43. Let me take you home . A B C D A) Take. B) You. C) ".". D) Let. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ".". 44. If I (A) was you, I would not (B) make that decision (C) so quickly. (D) No error A) B. B) D. C) C. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 45. The prices of homes are as high that most people cannot afford to buy them. A) As. B) Are. C) Most. D) Them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As. 46. He spends his leisure time by playing video games or watch television. A) Spends. B) His leisure time. C) By playing. D) Or watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Or watch. 47. A few weeks ago a woman call to report a burglary. A) Weeks. B) Woman. C) Call. D) To report. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Call. 48. Now J. K. Rowling is a (A) multi-millionaire, but (B) she was not born into the fame (C) and fortune (D). A) C. B) D. C) A. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C. 49. Every woman should vote for the candidate of their choice. A) Their choice. B) Every. C) Should vote. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their choice. 50. Question 2. One of (A) the biggest problems (B) facing our (C) society are (D) unemployment. A) A. B) D. C) B. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. 51. I am used to get up early. A) Am. B) Get. C) Early. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Am. 52. This is (A) the first time (B) I visited (C) a famous place in Hanoi (D). A) A. B) C. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C. 53. The chemical (A) pollutants from (B) cars make the (C) air, water and soil dangerously dirtily (D). A) C. B) D. C) B. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. 54. Unless Mae Wong Dam can prevent floods or does not contribute much during the dry season, its construction will not be necessary. A) Does not contribute. B) Unless. C) Will not be. D) Floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Does not contribute. 55. The crying baby needs to be picked up A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 56. I don't want to invite too much people because it's quite a small flat. A) Much. B) To invite. C) Quite. D) Because. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Much. 57. Many tourists prefer to visit amusement parks rather than to go on nature walks. A) Many tourists. B) Prefer to visit. C) To go on. D) Rather than. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To go on. 58. I look for Daniel. He isn't in the company. A) Isn't. B) Look. C) In. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Look. 59. Neither the Minister nor his colleagues has given an explanation for the chaos in the financial market last week. A) Has given. B) The financial market. C) Neither. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has given. 60. When one is interviewed, it is important that you be articulate and present oneself well. A) Is interviewed. B) Well. C) It is. D) You. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesError Recognition Quiz 1Error Recognition Quiz 2Error Recognition Quiz 3Error Recognition Quiz 4Error Recognition Quiz 5Error Recognition Quiz 6Error Recognition Quiz 7Error Recognition Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books