Error Correction Phrase in Bold MCQ Questions Directions: In this section, you have to choose the correct words (Error Correction Phrase in Bold) in the section Error Correction Phrase in Bold. In each of the following questions, words are given with four alternatives suggested for each question. Choose the correct words given and indicate your choice for the correct answer.
1. The organization aims ‘to providing with’ satellite-based data on climate-relevant information with the highest possible levels of accuracy and reliability.
A. to provide with
B. at providing with
C. to provide
D. to the provision of
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option C
Explanation: The organization aims ‘at providing’ or ‘to provide’ something. The use of ‘with’ is incorrect. It aims ‘to provide’ something not ‘provide with something’.
2. You ‘would not’ drive so fast; we have plenty of time.
A. will not
B. had not
C. need not
D. do not
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option C
Explanation: The sentence suggests that driving fast is not necessary. Hence the most appropriate modal verb to suit this context would be ‘need not’. ‘Will not’ suggests a simple future that is inapt. ‘Had not’ and ‘do not’ are illogical.
3. Underwater archaeology has huge potential, ‘as it could be’ a time-consuming and costly way to study the past.
A. as it is
B. but it is
C. since it could be
D. but it could
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option B
Explanation: The first part of the sentence says something positive about underwater archaeology (has huge potential) and the second part brings out its drawbacks. It is a contradiction, so it is apt to use a conjunction that brings out this contrast. The conjunction ‘but’ must replace ‘as’. Also, the idea stated is given as a fact. The first part is in the simple past and the second part should also be in the simple past. The verb ‘is’ has to replace ‘could be’ which suggests a supposition. The correction therefore is ‘but it is a time-consuming’.
4. Each galaxy is surrounded by a giant sphere of dark matter more than 10 times ‘so wide as’ the visible portion of the galaxy.
A. the width of
B. so wider than
C. of the width to
D. in width than
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option A
Explanation: It is ‘more than 10 times the width of’ something else. It has to take a noun and not an adjective. The comparison is between the width of the dark matter and the width of the visible portion of the galaxy. The comparison is brought out with the use of ‘more than’. Hence the use of ‘as wide as’ or ‘wider than’ becomes absurd. The correction is ’10 times of the width of’.
5. Studies have revealed ‘what more is the reason people are asked to come up with in support of an idea, and the less value they ascribe to each.
A. what more reasons
B. that more is the reason
C. What is the reason
D. that the more reasons
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option D
Explanation: There are two sentences combined using conjunction. The first clause is ‘studies have revealed’. The rest forms another noun clause. What have the studies revealed? They have revealed that. Hence the appropriate conjunction is ‘that’. This clause should have one main verb which is ‘asked’. People are asked to come up with reasons in support of an idea. ‘The more they are asked, the less they’ is the appropriate way of framing this. The correction, therefore, is ‘that the more reasons people are asked, the less value they’.
6. When he is short of money, he earns a little extra cash on being told the fortunes using a pack of tarot cards.
A. by being told fortunes
B. by telling fortunes
C. by telling of the fortune of
D. on telling fortunes
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option B
Explanation: He is short of money. So he earns extra cash ‘by’ doing something. Hence ‘by’ has to replace on. He earns it telling fortunes using the tarot cards.’ ‘Fortune-telling’ is taken up as a profession.
7. Mobile phones are nowadays used not just to make calls or send and receive text messages but to also carry-on financial transactions.
A. but also to carry on
B. but to carry out also
C. but also to carry out
D. and to carry out
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option C
Explanation: They are used ‘not only to make calls but also to carry out’. The use of ‘to before also’ is ungrammatical. Also, financial transactions are ‘carried out’. ‘carry on’ is in apt in this context. The correction is ‘but also to carry out’.
8. ‘In case of preserving’ our sense of community and common citizenship, we must keep things like police protection, freedom of education, and basic education outside the realm of the market, ensuring that they are provided equally to all.
A. In order to preserve
B. In order to preserve
C. In case to preserve
D. In order of preserving
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option B
Explanation: ‘In case of something’ means if something happens the use of which is irrelevant in the given context. ‘In order to do something’ which means with the purpose or intention of doing or achieving something is most appropriate. Hence the correction is ‘In order to preserve’.
9. Scientists have estimated that millions of creatures living in water ‘had been dying every year if’ they become entangled in plastic pollution or ingest it.
A. every year is dying as
B. has died every year as if
C. die every year when
D. was dying every year when
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option C
Explanation: Scientists say that it happens ‘every year’. Hence it is most apt to use the simple present tense (die) in this context. Also, the use of ‘if’ as a conjunction is illogical. They die ‘when they become entangled in’.
10. One of the grievances of the Kashmiri locals is about ‘the overbearing presence of’ security personnel in residential areas.
A. the overbearing present of
B. overbearing presence in the
C. overbearing in presence of
D. in the overbearing presence of
E. No correction is required
Answer: Option E
Explanation: The given sentence is grammatically correct.
