Spotting Error Topic: Adverb

#everydayquiz #spotting Error #adverb
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a) A soldier is/ (b) taught never to/(c) fight cowardly/(d) No error
cowardly is adjective, here we need to use adverb ,as here verb is fight,, so use
"in a cowardly manner"



(a) A man of fifty/ (b) cannot be called/ (c) as young./ (d) No error
DONT USE AS WITH >> name, elect, think, consider, call, appoint, make, choose.’ 
USE AS WITH >> ‘regard, describe, define, treat, view, know’

SO remove AS in C

(a) He is being/(b) very politely/ (c) for the reason best known to him. /(d) No erroruse POLITE instead of politely

(a) He is enough tall/(b) to be selected as Sub Inspector/ (c) in Delhi Police/(d) No
error.A.we use ENOUGH after adjective, so the correct is>> he is enough tall

(a) He is niggard/ (b) and saves each/(c) and every paise/(d) No errorNIGGARD is a noun so use A article before it , he is a niggard

niggard meana a miser

(a) I am full of energy/(b) today because I /(c) soundly slept last night/(d) No error.C.slept soundly is right,, 

(a) I did not know hardly/(b) anyone in the college/ (c) and so I felt lonely all the
time/(d) No error.DONT USE NOT WITH NEGATIVE WORDS, so here hardly is negative  word,, remove not,,

I knew hardly anyone is correct

(a) I have never seen/ (b) a coward man /(c) like Sohan/(d) No error.man is noun,, so adjective will be used here, use COWARDLY

a) I never remember/(b) to have met a more intelligent/(c) man in my life/(d) No error.A. NEVER will be used after REMEMBER.  

I REMEMBER NEVER TO HAVE MET..

(a) I refused to accompany him/(b) because he was/(c) so boring/(d) No error.After SO there must be THAT, use VERY instead of So

(a) I refused to consider/(b) him as an honest boy /(c) as he had cheated manypeople/(d) No error

DONT USE AS WITH >> name, elect, think, consider, call, appoint, make, choose.’ 

(a) I see him often/(b) at the/(c) bus terminal/(d) No error

A.  i often see him is correct

(a) Mangoes taste /(b) more sweetly than /(c) any other fruit of this world/(d) No error.taste is verb of sensation , so after it use adjective not adverb ,, so change SWEETLY to sweet

a) My father /(b) is very quicker than/(c) I at Chess/(d) No errorwith comparative degree use much not VERY..

so much quicker

(a) Never in the history/(b) there has been/ (c) as shrewd a mentor as Chanakya/
(d) No error.B. here sentence is getting start with word NEVER,,So use helping verb HAS first then use THERE.

 Never in the history has THERE

(a) Outright rejection/(b) of my plea /(c) disappointed me/(d) No errorD

(a) She did her job/ (b) as better as she/(c) could do/(d) No errorAS....AS. Takes positive degree. so use AS WELL AS

(a) She does her/(b) work good as she/(c) is a trained nurse/(d) No errorGOOD is adjective,, use here adverb so use WELL

(a) She had barely/(b) nothing to wear/(c) when she came to me for help/(d) No errorB.NEVER use negative word with barely,, so remove nothing

(a) She is either/(b) dumb or deaf,/ (c) if not both/(d) No error.C.both never takes not..

use neither for that..

so correct is "if neither"

a) She knows/(b) riding/ (c) a horse/(d) No error.
b.there are two words,, know and wonder,, after that there  must be a word of "wh family" 

wh family includes what why who which whom how etc.

so here use how 

she knows how to ride 

(a) Great leaders tried / (b) to eradicate social evil practices/(c) with tooth and nail/
(d) No error.C. remove WITH 

(a) It rained/ (b)like cats and dogs/ (c)throughout the night./(d) No errorB

remove LIKE

(a) The State Government/(b) appointed him as /(c) officer-in-charge/(d) No error

DONT USE AS WITH >> name, elect, think, consider, call, appoint, make, choose.’ 

(a) The teacher asked/ (b) the students to/(c) talk loudly/(d) no error.

loudly > with a lot of noise

aloud > audible voice 

use aloud here

a) Though he was brave,/ (b) he could not face the ups and downs/(c) of life manly/
(d) No error.
use MANFULLY ,, manly is adjective which means brave or strong.

a) We must try /(b) to save our hardly /(c) earned money/(d) No error.use hard earned money,,

hardly means with difficulty

hard means with great work

(a) We seldom or ever/(b) go out these days /(c) because it is too hot now-a-days/
(d) No error.A.use NEVER with SELDOM

(a) We should /(b) keep our belongings/(c) orderly/(d) No error

orderly is adjective,, use adverb,, in an orderly manner.

(a) Vijay could not scarcely conceal/ (b) his happiness /(c) at my resignation./
(d) No errorA

scarcely is negative word,,so remove NOT

(a) When I read his biography,/(b) I hardly found something/(c)in his character
that I could admire/(d) No error.with hardly we use anything..

hardly found anything.

(a) When she received the good news,/ (b) she ran straightly /(c) to call up her parents/
(d) No errorstraightly , there is no word like this,, straight is both adjective and adverb,,

use STRAIGHT

(a) You always /(b) come lately/ (c) to class/(d) No error.lately means currently

late means simply takes more time than usual

1. I haven't seen Akila lately.
2. He came late for the meeting.

a) You have /(b) acted nobler than/(c) all of us/(d) No error.

more nobly will be right,,nobler is wrong,,

(a) You should have/(b) sufficiently collateral/(c) to pay back the loan d) No errorcollateral is noun,,so use adjective ,, sufficient is right word

(a) Veena worked /(b)very hardly /(c)as she wanted to be a surgeon/(d) No error.b. use hard

(a) She sounded /(b)very sadly after /(c)the death of her pet/(d) No error.very sad is right,because sound is verb of sensation,, so use adjective

(a) Her speech was not clearly /(b)but we understood /(c)the underlying meaning/
(d) No errorspeech is noun,so adjective ll be used,, not adverb,, so use clear

(a) All the pupils/ (b) stood up respectively/ (c) as the Guru entered the room./ (d)
No error.change respectively to respectfully.