ADJECTIVE ERROR DETECTION SSC EXAMS
In this post, you will get 55 spotting error questions based on adjective. (Adjective Error Detection SSC Exams) These questions have previously been asked in the various exams of SSC.
Instruction:- Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is ‘D’. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
1. According to the survey (A) more of forty percent (B) of Indians do not have access to banks. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. More than in place of More of
2. Ram will be suspended (A) because he opened an account (B) without obtaining none of the necessary documents. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. without and none cannot be used together because both have negative meaning.
3. He avoids taking the (A) prescribed medicine (B) at regularly interval. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. Should be regular interval because interval is a noun and it requires an adjcetive.
4. His good qualities include (A) his ability to take (B) quickly and appropriate decisions. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be quick and appropriate decision see explanation number 3
5. I order to ensure quick service (A) please give us all the required (B) details as quick as possible. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. as soon as possible will replace as quick as possible.
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6. Implementing these measures (A) will help the government to save more of (B) 400 crores each year. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. Should be more than in stead of more of
7. He wanted certain boy (A) to make entry into (B) the principal’s chamber. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. should be certain boys or a certain boy.
8. There were only two (A) soldiers but each and every (B) soldier was equal to five policemen. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. each and every should be replaced by each only because each and every is used for more than two only.
9. The ten captains (A) had each an (B) achievement of his own. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- D. No Error
10. These sort of men attain worldly success (A) by hook on by crook so (B) they deserve to be looked down upon. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be sorts because after these and those a plural countable noun is used.
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ADJECTIVE ERROR DETECTION SSC EXAMS
11. I feel (A) a certain problems in (B) the execution of this plan. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. See explanation number 7
12. In spite of facing (A) much problems, he did not (B) desert the path of honesty. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. should be many problems because problems is a plural countable noun.
13. Can you tell me how (A) many eggs and milk (B) he has brought home? (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. how much should be used before milk because when two nouns are joined by a conjunction and take different determiners both the determiners should be written.
14. Whole the chapter of the book is full of printing (A) errors which are the outcome (B) of the proof reader’s carelessness. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. The whole chapter should be used.
15. He did not like (A) to lend me any book (B) or any money. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- D. No Error
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16. Her black long (A) hair adds glamour to (B) her looks. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be long black
17. I saw an anxious pale girl (B) who when asked let me know (B) that she was suffering from consumption. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be a pale anxious girl
18. It is a fact that (A) Mahatma Gandhi was the (B) first politician of his time. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be foremost politician because foremost means most prominent in rank, importance, or position.
19. At the utmost gate (A) was standing a guard (B) holding a gun in his hand. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be uttermost
20. Delhi is (A) further from (B) Patna than Agra. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. should be farther because farther is used for distance whereas further is used for sequence
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21. This book is undoubtedly preferable to (A) that in man respects and its printing (B) is also comparatively better. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be comparatively good because the words such as comparatively, relatively takes a positive degree adjective.
22. Of the two (A) players, he is (B) the luckiest, be sure. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. it should be the luckier because when choice form of the two is given the + comparative degree is used.
23. Rita can sing much than fifty songs at (A) a stretch and she has developed (B) this ability by labouring hard. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be more than
24. She was curious to know (A) what it was that made him stronger and braver (B) than any man of this village. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be any other man in part c
25. She has a remarkably (A) lovingly appearance which brings her (B) honour and admiration as well. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. should be loving because appearance is a noun and it needs an adjective just before it.
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26. Both Basant and Sumit are (A) excellent workers but the latter is best (B) than the former. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. since the comparative degree is evident, it should be better
27. He realized that (A) he had committed a mistake in accepting (B) a packet from an unidentify person. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be unidentified person because person is a noun and it needs an adjective.
28. India is in no way (A) inferior than the (B) U.S.A. in the fertility of soil. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. should be to in place of than. because adjectives like junior, senior, posterior, etc. takes to in the comparative degree.
29. No book gives (A) the description of human anatomy (B) in so much detail as this book. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be no other book. because no other + singular noun is used in the positive degree
30. A lots of books (A) on English Grammar are available (B) in the market but this one is the best. (C) No Error (D)
Explanation:- A. It should be a lot of or lots of
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31. He does not have (A) some money to buy a new X-ray (B) plant, so he is sunk in anxiety. (C) No Error (D)
Explanation:- B. since the sentence is negative any should be used in place of some. some is used in the positive sentence and it can be used in the interrogative only when there is a sense of offer or request.
32. Gold is the most precious (A) of all metals that are used in ornaments, (C) as far as we all know. (C) No Error (D)
Explanation:- D. No Error
33. He is the most successful man (A) in the world (B) I have ever known. (C) No Error (D)
Explanation:- D No Error
34. No less than fifty audiences are sitting (A) in the hall and waiting for their (B) beloved artist to appear on the stage. (C) No Error (D)
Explanation:- A. No fewer should be used as audiences is a countable noun and remember that few/fewer is used with plural countable noun and little/less is used with uncountable noun.
35. As sooner as (A) you reach the port (B) report to the desk officer. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. (As soon as) should be used because positive degree adjective is used between (As….As and So…..As)
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36. This book is designed to increase (A) the working knowledge of (B) speak and written English. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. It should be spoken because past participle adjective is used before a noun to modify it.
37. Tendulkar is the best (A) of all other batsmen of the world because (B) he plays concentrately most of the time. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. Since the superlative degree is evident, it should be all batsmen, remove other because other is used in the positive and comparative degree.
38. Everybody knows that (A) Neha is good and more (B) beautiful than Meera. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. Since comparative degree is evident, it should better in place of good in part B.
39. Rakesh is getting (A) fat because he (B) does not take any exercise at all. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. To show gradual increase or decrease comparative degree is used, so change fat to fatter or fatter and fatter.
40. He has in his possession (A) a price collection of very old coins (B) and some ancient paintings. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. It should be precious collection
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41. All renew licenses may (A) be collected from the (B) cashier’s counter after paying the fees. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. should be renewed because before a noun there need an adjective.
42. Sadhna’s performance in the (A) drama was best than (B) Sunita’s but not as good as Nikita’s. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. Better than should be used
43. In our area (A) the journey by bus is (B) quick and safe than by train. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. since the comparative degree is evident; quicker and safer should be used.
44. As compared with (A) last year the production (B) of this factory is not satisfactory. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. The comparison should be correct so the production of last year should be used
45. We have been trying (A) to eradicate poverty (B) but our efforts have got only limit success. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be limited success because success is a noun and it requires an adjective.
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46. He is so lazy that (A) he takes a large number of time (B) to complete such a small piece of work. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. Time is uncountable noun so a lot of time should be used.
47. No station on (A) this sector of the railway (B) is as modern and clean as this station is. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- A. The positive degree is evident so No other station should be used because No other is used in the positive degree.
48. He reached home (A) leaving aside all other work but his father had (B) left the home few minutes before. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be a few minutes should be used because the sentence has a positive meaning.
49. After he had read the first two chapters (A) of the novel (B) he felt like reading the novel at one sit. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be sitting because there needs a noun after adjective one, and if a verb is used as a noun it must be in ing form.
50. Although he is my bosom friend, (A) I cannot ask him for (B) money without any vividly reason. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be vivid reason because reason is noun and it needs an adjective to qualify it.
51. Our new playground (A) is big (B) and cleaner than theirs. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. Since comparative degree is evident, it should be bigger.
52. Enough is enough (A) I cannot now (B) tolerate this mischief any much. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be any more.
53. When it comes to comparison (A) between the two, quality is most (B) important than quantity. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- B. since the comparative degree is evident, it should more in place of most.
54. Of all the teachers (A) in our school, (B) our history teacher is the better. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. since the superlative degree is evident, it should be the best. Remember of/in + words is used in the superlative degree.
55. Children should be (A) taught to be (B) kindly towards animals. (C) No error (D)
Explanation:- C. should be kind towards animals.
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