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Error Correction (Phrase in Bold) mcq for SSC exams

MCQ Error Correction (Phrase in Bold)

21. The Common Wealth Games was a platform for India ‘to make a proof for the world that’ it can organize a big event.

A. to prove the world

B. to prove to the world

C. to make a proof to the world

D. to prove for the world

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option B
Explanation: You prove something to someone. Hence ‘to prove to the world’.

22. In today’s competitive environment, every organization is ‘face to face with’ a range of responsibilities and challenges that need to be addressed.

A. facing with

B. faced to-face with

C. faced with

D. facing face with

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option C
Explanation: You are faced with a problem. If you face a problem, or a problem faces you, you must deal with it. Hence ‘faced with’ is the correct expression.

23. Children who spend more than two hours a day at a computer or watching television ‘are more likelier than‘ others to have psychological problems, according to scientists.

A. are likely than

B. are likelier than

C. are more likely than

D. are more likely from

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option B
Explanation: The adjective ‘likelier’ is itself in the comparative degree, hence ‘more likelier’ is incorrect. In this sentence, a comparison is made between children who spend more time watching and those who do not. This contrast is best brought out using the expression ‘are likelier than’.

24.  Once we shape our attitude towards maintaining a sustainable lifestyle ‘from which we have’, it is easy to stay out of the vicious cycle of always yearning for more.

A. out of what we have

B. out of which we have

C. out of that we have

D. from what ever that we have

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option A
Explanation: The sentence speaks about maintaining a sustainable lifestyle from the resources that we have. The correction is ‘maintaining a sustainable lifestyle out of what we have’

25. The recent natural calamities not only produced casualties, ‘it also triggered’, emergency relief intended to address the life-threatening problems of survivors.

A. and it also triggered

B. and also it triggered

C. but they also triggered

D. but also they triggered

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option C
Explanation: ‘Calamities’ is a plural word and hence it should be indicated by the pronoun ‘they’. Hence the correct expression ‘they also triggered’.

26. The minister categorically denied the allegations ‘leveled against him’ as a plot to tarnish his image.

A. leveled over him

B. level on him

C. level over him

D. level against him

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option E
Explanation: The sentence does not require any correction.

27. Mira is a good singer ‘but she cannot sing as well like’ her sister.

A. but she cannot sing as well as

B. but she cannot sing so well like

C. but she cannot sing well like

D. but she cannot sing well as

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option A
Explanation: The comparison intended in the sentence is best brought out using ‘as well as’.

28. Success is achieved not by mere dreaming, anticipating, and planning but by executing your plan of action.

A. achieved not merely by dreaming

B. attained not by merely dreaming

C. attained merely not by dreaming

D. attained not by dreaming merely

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option A
Explanation: Choices (B), (C), and (D) are incorrect due to the inappropriate positioning of the adverbs.

29. All of us have some unique skill sets and personality traits ‘those give us high competence’ in some areas.

A. which gives us high competence

B. they give us high competence

C. that gives us high competence

D. they make us highly competent

E. No correction is required  


Answer: Option C
Explanation: The ‘skill sets’ and ‘personality traits’ referred to in the sentence are indicated using the relative pronoun ‘that’. The correction is ‘that gives us high competence’.

30. Not for ‘a moment I did’ think that I would be trekking in the highlands of Scotland.

A. a moment I had

B. a moment did I

C. a moment would I

D. No correction is required

E. None of the above


Answer is B
Subject and verb are inverted for expressions beginning with not.
Therefore, I did become did I
Therefore, the correct answer is a moment did I.