SPOTTING THE ERROR – Adjective Section

1.​ (a) Anurag is eclipsed by his wife, / (b) who is cleverer and / (c) amusing than he is. / (d)
No error​

2.​ (a) The two first to arrive / (b) were the lucky recipients / (c) of a surprise gift. / (d) No
error​

3.​ (a) Of the billions of stars in the galaxy, / (b) how much are / (c) suitable for life? / (d) No
error​

4.​ (a) A few word of / (b) gratitude are enough / (c) to express your / (d) feelings sincerely. /
(e) No error.​

5.​ (a) He feels his troubles / (b) as much or / (c) even more than they. / (d) No error​

6.​ (a) I like reading / (b) more than / (c) to play games. / (d) No error​

7.​ (a) There is not many traffic / (b) along the street / (c) where I live. / (d) No error​

8.​ (a) The police arrived and discovered / (b) a large number of hoarded sugar/ (c) in his
shop. / (d) No error​

9.​ (a) As a dramatist / (b) Shaw is superior than / (c) any other twentieth century writer. / (d)
No error​

10.​(a) Of the two great cities/ (b) the former is / (c) biggest. / (d) No error​

11.​(a) A non banking financial company is a / (b) financial institution similarly to a bank / (c)
but it cannot issue cheque books to customers. / (d) No error​

12.​(a) Everyone agrees that / (b) the Ganga is the holiest / (c) of all other rivers of India. /
(d) No error​

13.​(a) Krishna ran to the / (b) nearing grocery store to / (c) buy biscuits as his parents were
expecting guests. / (d) No error​

14.​(a) While giving a loan / (b) you must check / (c) if the borrower has sufficiently collateral
to repay it. / (d) No error​

15.​(a) Although his speech / (b) was not very clearly everyone understood / (c) the
underlying meaning. / (d) No error​
16.​(a) He is the most / (b) intelligent and also / (c) the very talented student of the college. /
(d) No error​

17.​(a) Having been found / (b) guilty of the theft / (c) Sunny was sentenced to five year’s
imprisonment. / (d) No error​

18.​(a) The Railways have made / (b) crossing the tracks / (c) a punished offence. / (d) No
error​

19.​(a) Alms / (b) are given / (c) to the poors. / (d) No error​

20.​(a) Lasers are / (b) indispensable tools / (c) for the delicate eyes surgery. / (d) No error​

21.​(a) The number of applications has risen / (b) this year by / (c) as many as 50%. / (d) No
error​

22.​(a) Two lakh of people / (b) attended the meeting / (c) held in parade ground. / (d) No
error​

23.​(a) These sort of men / (b) attain success by hook or by crook / (c) so they do not
deserve any applause. / (d) No error​

24.​(a) Can you tell me how / (b) many eggs and / (c) milk he has brought / (d) No error​

25.​(a) Whole the chapter / (b) is full of printing errors which are the outcome / (c) of the
proof reader’s carelessness. / (d) No error​

26.​(a) Her black long / (b) hair adds / (c) glamour to her looks. / (d) No error​

27.​(a) I trembled when I saw / (b) a sharp long knife / (c) in his hand. / (d) No error​

28.​(a) I saw / (b) an anxious pale girl / (c) who was fidgetting near the ICU / (d) No error​

29.​(a) Mumbai is / (b) further from / (c) Delhi than / (d) Patna. / (d) No error​

30.​(a) This book is / (b) undoubtedly preferable than / (c) that and its printing / (d) is also
comparatively good. / (e) No error​

31.​(a) You can trust / (b) this channel / (c) for the last news of this hour. / (d) No error​

32.​(a) Everybody knows / (b) that Radha is the most unique / (c) singer of this college / (d)
No error​
33.​(a) The faster he completes / (b) the work given to / (c) him, the largest will be his profit. /
(d) No error​

34.​(a) He does not have / (b) some money to buy a new machine so he is / (c) anxious / (d)
No error​

35.​(a) This young lady is / (b) more beautiful but not so cultured / (c) as her sister. / (d) No
error​

36.​(a) Now-a-days, / (b) the weather / (c) is getting cold and colder. / (d) No error​

37.​(a) This photograph / (b) was comparatively better / (c) than that which he had kept in his
purse. / (d) No error​

38.​(a) Ram is as good, / (b) if not better than / (c) they. / (d) No error​

39.​(a) Gopal felt happily / (b) to learn that I / (c) had got a job in the Bank. / (d) No error​

40.​(a) He is comparatively / (b) weaker / (c) in maths / (d) No error​

41.​(a) Many a / (b) boys are / (c) absent today / (d) no error.​

42.​(a) Honest are / (b) rewarded / (c) sooner or later / (d) no error.​

43.​(a) My all / (b) friends will come / (c) tomorrow to meet me / (d) No error​

44.​(a) He is wiser / (b) enough to / (c) understand your trick / (d) No error​

45.​(a) Ramayana is more / (b) sacred than / (c) all the mythologies of Hindus / (d) no error.​

46.​(a) He offered / (b) me a / (c) steamed cup of tea / (d) no error.​

47.​(a) I will buy / (b) the book when / (c) the revise edition will come / (d) no error.​

48.​(a) He ran so fastly / (b) that he reached / (c) the destination in just two minutes. / (d) No
error​

49.​(a) I am sure that / (b) all my monthly expenses / (c) would exceed the income if I do not
economise. / (d) No error​

50.​(a) I am more lonelier / (b) here than/ (c) I was in the USA. / (d) No error​
51.​(a) To me it appears that/ (b) Anthropology is the more interesting/ (c) of all the subjects.
/ (d) No error.​

52.​(a) The circulation of The Statesman/ (b) is greater than/ (c) that of any newspaper/ (d)
No error.​

53.​(a) In the garden/ (b) were the more beautiful flowers/ (c) and silver bells. / (d) No error.​

54.​(a) In his old age,/ (b) a person is likely to get/ (c) more weak day by day. / (d) No error.​