Spotting errors is one of the common scoring topics of English language section for both clerk and PO exams. It is a very vast topic as you need to be proficient in grammar in order to spot the error and rectify it. But even if you are not, here are some tips which will help you to attempt the questions correctly. Usually the errors are related to the parts of speech or their relation. Now we are here with few tips for spotting errors.
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Noun Based errors
Collective nouns like cattle, team, public etc. can be used both as singular and plural depending on their meaning. When these words refer to a unit, the verb is singular, otherwise it is plural.
Example:
The team is headed to the nationals after winning state finals.
The trial team were happy with their presentations to the judge.
Pronoun based errors
Example:
Every girl must carry his bag.
All officers must do their work.
Example: One must finish one’s task in time
Subject verb agreement
Answer: ‘is’ because the subject of this sentence is ‘one,’ which is singular. Don’t let the intervening prepositional phrase (‘friends’) fool you.
Answer: ‘make’ because of 2 subjects- pencil and eraser
Answer: ‘are’ because the subject near it is plural (actors)
Adverbs and Adjectives based errors
Example:
Incorrect: He retuned quicker than I expected.
Correct: He returned quickly than I expected.
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Little – It has a negative meaning and means ‘hardly any’
A little – It has a positive meaning and means ‘some’, though not much.
The little – means ‘not much’, but all that is.
Example:
She has little knowledge of cars.
She has a little knowledge of cars.
She has the little jewellery that he received from her father.
Miscellaneous errors
The word “whose” is used to address living entities and the word “which” is used for lifeless objects.
Example:
Words beginning with ‘h’ like, honour, honest, heir etc. are silent. Hence the vowel following it uses ‘an’, instead of ‘a’ for the article.
Hence, the correct usage is “an hour”.
These were the few tips to be kept in mind to solve the spotting error questions correctly. These will help simplify spotting error questions in SBI-Clerk as well as other banking exam hopefully. There are many more errors expected in the sentences but these are the most common errors.
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