Important spotting error for ssc cgl mains 2017 set-6

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Directions [Q. No. 1 to 20]: Some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out
which part of a sentence has error and blacken the oval corresponding to the appropriate letter
(A, B, C). If there is no error, blacken the oval corresponding to (D) in the answer sheet.

1. (A) He did / (B) no work / (C) since yesterday. / (D) No error.

1. (A); Change ‘did’ into ‘has done’

2. (A) She / (B) is working here / (C) since 1990. / (D) No error.

2. (B); Change ‘is’ into ‘had been’

3. (A) Amitabh Bacchan is having / (B) a large / (C) fan following. / (D) No error.

3. (A); Change ‘is having’ into ‘has’

4. (A) I remember / (B) meet him / (C) many years ago. / (D) No error.

4. (B); Change ‘meet’ into ‘meeting’

5. (A) He asked / (B) that how long / (C) I would be away from Delhi. / (D) No error.

5. (B); Remove ‘that’

6. (A) Everybody in the office / (B) has left early / (C) hasn't he? / (D) No error.

6. (C); Change ‘hasn’t he?’ into ‘haven’t they?’

7. (A) The teacher told them that / (B) the students should have gone to the library / (C)
instead of having wasted their time / (D) No error.

7. (C); Change ‘having wasted’ into ‘wasting’

8. (A) He is / (B) one of the tallest boy / (C) in the class / (D) No error.

8. (B); Change ‘boy’ into ‘boys’

9. (A) The reason why / (B)he was rejected / (C) was because he was too young /(D) No error

9. (C); Change ‘because’ into ‘that’

10. (A) The Management requires / (B) a number of critereons / (C) for this post. / (D)
No error.

10. (B); Change ‘Criterions’ into ‘Criteria’

11. (A) The Municipality has made / (B) littering public places / (C) a punished offence. / (D) No
error.

11. (C); Change ‘punished’ into ‘punishable’

12. (A) On last Monday / (B) I came across a / (C) book on black magic. / (D) No error.

12. (A); Remove ‘on’

13. (A) He thinks / (B) himself / (C) as a great and charismatic leader. / (D) No error.


13. (C); ‘as’ is not used with ‘think’

14. (A) I like / (B) the poetries / (C) of only a few great poets. / (D) No error.

14. (B); Change ‘poetries’ into ‘poetry’

15. (A) Unless / (B) you will not work hard and adopt right strategy / (C) you cannot pass. / (D) No
error.

15. (B); Change ‘will not work’ into ‘works’

16. (A) The Principal as well as staff / (B) are waiting for / (C) the chief guest. / (D) No error.

16. (B); Change ‘are’ into ‘is’

17. (A) Sheela doesn’t usually / (B) wear jewellery but last night / (C) she wore ring. / (D) No

error.

17. (C); Add ‘a’ before ‘ring’

18. (A) The organization / (B) is running a vocational course / (C) since 1998. / (D) No error.

18. (B); Change ‘is’ into ‘has been’

19. (A) Neither Rahul nor Ravi / (B) has submitted/ (C) their homework in time. / (D) No error.

19. (C); Change ‘their’ into ‘his’

20. (A) There is a surprise party / (B) for him / (C) at 7 p.m. this evening. / (D) No error.

20. (C); ‘pm’ and ‘this evening’ together
become superfluous

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