Question
The army men or their only commander-in-chief (A)/were
not ready (B)/to accept defeat so easily, (C)/so they fought fiercely (D). 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. 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
When a compound subject containing a singular and plural subject are connected by ‘or’ or ’nor’, the verb should agree with the part of sentence that is closest to the verb. So here, ‘was’ is correct because ‘commander-in-chief’ is singular. The army men or their only commander-in-chief was not ready to accept defeat so easily, so they fought fiercely.
Select the segment which has a grammatical error.
He promised to get in touch with myself as soon as he had the information needed.
She pervades (A)/ poetry from cover (B)/ to cover. (C) / No error (D)
Given below are a few questions with three sentences in each of them which may or may not contain errors in them. You have to find the sentence which ...
Angered over the delay in giving compensation; factory workers shouted slogans against the president when he reaches the office.
- Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. Select the option that contains an error.
Despite its widespread popularity (A)/among Florida's politicians, (B)/the bond cap statue was not (C)/entirely kosher from a constitutional point of vi...
Their idea of a fun Saturday afternoon (A)/is to go paintballing and (B)/take up covered in golfball-sized red weals (C)/from being shot at close range...
Directions: In each of the questions, a sentence has been divided into four parts, one of which may contain an error. Identify that fragment and mark i...
In the question below, three sentences are given, each divided into four parts, which may or may not contain grammatical errors. From the options, choos...
The Ambassadors and High Commissioners are here in a two-day visit to the state to take stock of preparations for the flag down ceremony.
