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Is Error Detection important for exams?

Error Detection appears in school exams and competitive exams like SSC and Bank PO English sections. Practising with exam-style questions improves accuracy and speed.

Error Detection

Sentence Skills upper_intermediate hard

Finding the part of a sentence that contains a grammar error.

Sentence Skills — Detection, correction, rearrangement and translation.

Rules

1. Check subject-verb agreement first. 2. Check articles and prepositions. 3. Check pronoun-antecedent agreement. 4. Check verb tense consistency. 5. Check singular/plural forms. 6. Common error locations: a wrong preposition, a missing article, wrong verb form, wrong pronoun case. 7. Read the sentence aloud — errors often sound wrong. 8. In exam format, four parts are marked; find the erroneous part.

Explanation

Error detection is the highest-scoring exam skill. Train on the most common error types: agreement, articles, prepositions, tense, pronoun case.

हिंदी में

Error detection में वाक्य के गलत हिस्से को पहचानना होता है — agreement, article, preposition, tense की गलतियाँ सबसे आम हैं।

Examples

He do not like coffee. → Error: do → does. — वह कॉफी पसंद नहीं करता।
She is married with Ravi. → Error: with → to. — उसकी शादी रवि से हुई है।

Common Mistakes

{"mistake":"Reading too fast, the meaning was lost.","correction":"Reading too fast, I lost the meaning.","note":"Dangling modifier."}

Practice Questions

Q1. Which sentence contains an error?

I prefer tea than coffee.
I prefer tea to coffee.
I prefer reading to writing.
She prefers mangoes to apples.

Answer: I prefer tea than coffee.

💡 Prefer takes "to": "prefer tea to coffee".

Q2. Which sentence contains an error?

He is good in mathematics.
He is good at mathematics.
She is interested in music.
They are afraid of dogs.

Answer: He is good in mathematics.

💡 Ability → "good at" mathematics.

Q3. Which sentence contains an error?

I am looking forward to meet you.
I am looking forward to meeting you.
He is used to working late.
She is interested in music.

Answer: I am looking forward to meet you.

💡 "Look forward to" takes a gerund: "to meeting you".

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Topic	Level	What it covers
Word Rearrangement	elementary	Arrange jumbled words into a correct sentence.
Sentence Correction	upper_intermediate	Rewriting an incorrect sentence correctly.
Sentence Improvement	upper_intermediate	Choosing the best way to say something.
Sentence Rearrangement	upper_intermediate	Putting jumbled sentences or words in the correct order.
Fill in the Blanks	intermediate	Choosing the correct word for a gap in a sentence.
Cloze Test	upper_intermediate	Filling multiple blanks in a short passage.