This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Editing And Proofreading > Error Recognition – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Error Recognition Quiz 19 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It (A) was in 2008 which (B) he settled down (C) in the USA and got married (D). A) A. B) C. C) B. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B. 2. When the season starts is that determined by the weather. A) Is. B) When. C) By. D) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That. 3. Hevea brasiliensis, which is better known as the rubber tree, ..... for up to 30 years to create latex. A) Can be tapped. B) Tapping. C) Are tapped. D) Were tapped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can be tapped. 4. I always make the children to pick up their toys. A) Make. B) The. C) Toys. D) To pick up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To pick up. 5. A patient suffering (A) from amnesia may (B) had (C) partial or total loss (D) of memory. A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. 6. Identify the error in the sentence: "They was happy with their results." A) Were. B) Been. C) Be. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 7. The storm prevented us to go out. A) To go out. B) Storm. C) Us. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To go out. 8. If I were her, I'll quit that job immediately and look for another one. A) Another one. B) I'll quit. C) Were. D) Immediately. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'll quit. 9. You look very tired, you are going to stay at home and relax. A) Look. B) Are going to. C) Tired. D) Relax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are going to. 10. The guide who's (A) hometown is Sapa recommended (B) us a 2-day (C) trekking tour to Fansipan (D). A) B. B) A. C) D. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. 11. Early European settlers in North America used medicines made from plants to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar with Malaria. A) An. B) In. C) With. D) Made. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With. 12. Identify the error in the sentence: "She don't has any siblings." A) Don't has. B) Doesn't has. C) Don't have. D) Doesn't have. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doesn't have. 13. The report was delivered to the director's office at 11:00 this morning, wasn't he? A) The director's office. B) Delivered. C) The report. D) Wasn't he?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wasn't he?. 14. We wish today was sunny so that we could spend the day in the country communing with nature. A) In the country. B) So that. C) Was. D) Could spend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. The equipment in the office was badly in need of to be repaired. A) In the office. B) Was badly. C) To be repaired. D) Equipment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be repaired. 18. Trustworthy (A) legislators must be accountability (B) for (C)the promises they made to their (D) voters A) Trustworthy. B) Their. C) Accountability. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Accountability. 19. 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) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. 20. If you don't know what (A) that word means (B), try to look (C) it on (D) in the dictionary. A) B. B) C. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. 21. Conjugate the verb in the following sentence. (present tense)Marta ..... (estudiar) todos los dias. A) Estudia. B) Estudias. C) Estudio. D) Estudian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estudia. 22. It is no use crying over spilt milk when the birds have flown. A) A. B) D. C) C. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B. 23. (Error recognition)The books that I read was interesting. A) Interesting. B) Was. C) Read. D) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was. 24. 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) Tight. B) Spreading. C) Is. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tight. 25. That is the man which told me the bad news. A) The. B) Which. C) That. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Which. 26. When (A) Andrew saw (B) the question, he were knowing (C) the answer immediately (D). A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. 27. 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) Raised so rapidly. B) That. C) Forced to. D) Alter their eating habits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raised so rapidly. 28. We could reach the survivors neither by boat or by plane, and so we abandoned our search as futile. A) No error. B) Neither. C) Or. D) As. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Or. 29. Daisy and I contacted the jeweler because we had heard she would be able to finding us a great engagement ring. A) To finding. B) Contacted. C) Would be. D) Had heard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To finding. 30. 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) B. B) A. C) D. D) C. 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