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Error Indentification

Rules for Error identification is a combination of all the elements that can be in Grammar.

In this we need to identify the grammatical errors in a sentence. Though termed as Sentence Correction, most often, problems in this topic need one to only classify sentence errors.

It can be a punctuation error, wrong use of tense, subject-verb disagreement, article and many more, through which a reader’s skills are tested.

Though we can say one needs to be concerned about all grammartical concepts to solve these type of questions.

Rules For Error Identification:-

The following rules for error identification should be kept in mind while solving any questions:

  1. We should be well-versed with the parts of speech, such as adverb, adjectives, conjunctions, nouns, interjections, etc.
    These must be correctly used as they help to make a sentence constructive.

    Example:
    He cooks real good. (Incorrect)
    He cooks really well. (Correct)

  2. Make sure the sentence is grammatically appropriate, where the subject must agree with the verb.
    The subject-verb agreement should there, if not, then the sentence has an error. It also acts as a hint for finding an error.

  3. There should be no parallelism within the sentence. Various words in the sentence should follow the same concept where all are written in the same tense.Example:
    Students must go through both studying and how to write to get the desired result.(Incorrect)
    The student must go through both studying and writing to get their desired result. (Correct)

  4. A modifier is something which should come after subject as it modifies the subject. The sentence can be wrong if the modifiers are placed before the subject.Example:
    Swamped in mud, Roji rescued the puppy. (Incorrect)
    Swamped in mud, the puppy was rescued by Roji. (Correct)

  5. The sentence must not include repetitive words or redundancy.Example:
    He will return back next week. (Incorrect)
    He will return next week. (Correct)

  6. Several grammatical, punctuation, and spelling details or knowledge is a must have for the people appearing for error identification test.

  7. Pronoun agreement should be there, such as he/she/it should go with does or ‘es’ and you/we/they must go with doing.

  8. A verb followed by a preposition typically forms a phrasal verb.

    Phrasal verb mistakes happen when a dissimilar preposition is used in place of the one that is required to be put.
    It is required to have knowledge about phrases and idioms as they have some specific words.
    One can easily identify errors in phrases if they have thorough knowledge about the phrases.

  9. Use of correct words at correct places is important. It may also help you find a logical replacement of the word in mind through which you can identify that the sentence has errors to be replaced.

1. Use of Question Tags:

Question tags are the short clauses in the end of a statement that turn a statement into question. These questions are formed by the auxiliary verb that are used in the first clause.

Example:

The birds were flying in the same direction, weren’t they?

Here, ‘The Birds were’ is the subject and verb used, hence the question tag will be ‘weren’t they’

Fact: The question tags always carry an opposite charge than the main clause. This means, a positive clause will take negative question tag and vice versa.
2. Use of Relative Pronoun:

Relative Pronouns are used to show a relation between the dependent and the independent clause. The 5 most common Relative Pronouns are:

  1. who
  2. whom
  3. that
  4. which
  5. what

Example:

The boy who scored the highest run in the cricket turnament is my brother.

Here, who is the relative pronoun that relates the dependent clause ‘The boy’ with the independent clause 'scored the highest run in the cricket turnament is my brother.'

3. Transitive and Intransitive Verb:
Transitive verbs will always carry the object with themselves while an Intransitive verb will never carry an object.

Transitive Verb:

Example:

The director addressed the chairman before the meeting begun.

Here, addressed is the transitive verb which needs the object 'the chairman'.

Intransitive Verb:

Suresh's health recovered so quickly that even the doctor couldn't believe.Here, recovered is followed by an adverb instead of an object.
Fact : Some verbs can be both transitive and intransitive, depending on the situation. It may require an object at some instance while remain independent at some.

Example:
The jury will continue the hearing after a break. (transitive)
The hearing continued after the break. (intransitive).

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