Question
Col. Whiting called for (A)/my office to get (B)/the
loan of (C)/an elementary work on conchology (D). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical/contextual error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).Solution
The phrasal verb ‘call for’ is incorrect here. The correct phrasal verb is ‘call at’, which means ‘Stop somewhere briefly’. Col. Whiting called at my office to get the loan of an elementary work on conchology.
More Spotting Errors Questions
14 × 11 + 25 – ? = 21% of 300
84367 + 65441 + 32645 – 21145 – 10769 = ?
What will come in the place of question mark (?) in the given expression?
(40% of ? × 43 ) – 232 = 751Â
(25)² × 4 ÷ 5 + (3)³ + 48=? + 425
[(15)³ × (8)²] ÷ (90 × 6) = ?²
14 × 6 + 9 × 11 = (82 – 3) × ?
4.2 × 6.5 × 7.8 = ?
5760 ÷ 45 × 15 = ?
Find the value of 16 X [(8 - 5) of 12 ÷ 4].
What will come in the place of question mark (?) in the given expression?
23 X 35 - ? = (132 + 16) X 3 + 25
