Error spotting questions on nouns are available here. The English Language section is available here for all the competitive exams. Error spotting is one of the most important topics for the English Language. At least 3-5 questions have been asked in Bank, Insurance & SSC exams. So candidates have to give more importance to this topic to increase their score. For your practice, here we have added some Error spotting questions on nouns. Use these questions and learn some basic error spotting techniques.
Candidates should be strong in grammar, to score more marks on the error spotting topic. Here we have given some Error spotting questions on nouns for example. Also, for each question, we have given the answers and a detailed explanation. So that you can clearly understand the usage of nouns in a sentence. there are various types and forms of nouns. If you are thorough with that usage, then you can easily answer the Error spotting questions on nouns. Use these questions for a quick revision before the exam. So that, in the exam, you can remember the usage of the correct form of nouns. Also, practice more error spotting questions to gain knowledge. For that attend topic tests and analyze your mistakes regularly.
Explanation: The parliament is divided, it is not being divided thought of as a whole, but in terms of its constituents. Hence, use the plural verb. ’The parliament is divided on the bill.
Explanation: The abstract noun from the common noun thief is theft, not thiefhood. ‘His brother committed theft in his house.
Explanation: This sentence intends is spectacles made of glass. So we use plural ‘glasses’. ‘He wears glasses to aid his short-sighted eye’.
Explanation: The game is not draught but draughts.‘ The same board is used chess as well as draughts’.
Explanation: Vixen is the feminine gender of fox, not its plural. ‘Take care of the foxes because they are wily creatures’/ ‘Take care of the vixen because she is a wily creature’.
Explanation: The sentence is correct. People usually, is used as a plural. But when it means a nation, as it does here, it is used as a singular. ‘The Indians are a religious-minded people’.
Explanation: In this sentence time is personified and takes masculine gender. ‘Time passes in his chariot majestically’.
Explanation: In this sentence, it is talking of persons from different professions-lawyers and doctors. Thus practice means the exercise of a profession. This meaning does not have a plural. ‘The practice of the lawyers varies from those of the doctors’.
Explanation: If one light gives light, do you think two lights give two lights? Light is not countable so it does not have a plural form. ‘The bright lamps gave much light’.
Explanation: Devi is not Viswanathan Anand. Anand here is compared with Devi. ‘Devi is the Anand of our chess class’.
Explanation: Possessive is used with nouns denoting time .‘You will be promoted in a year’s time’.
Explanation: The cup is not a living thing. So it does not take a possessive sign. ‘The base of the cup was rounded.
Explanation: The earth is personified and it takes feminine gender.. ‘The Earth treats us as her children, not strangers’.
Explanation: The fleet is a collective noun. It should be in the singular. ‘The fleet of ships moves at a uniform speed’.
Explanation: Monarch does not have feminine gender. It is of common gender. ‘Queen Elizabeth is the monarch of England’.
Explanation: Aurangzeb’s religious bigotism caused severe harm to the Mughal empire.
Explanation: Tin is a material noun. A material noun does not take an article before it. ‘Tin is a precious metal’.
Explanation: The feminine for milkman is milkmaid, not milkwoman. ‘The milkmaid said that she would not supply milk on holidays’.
Explanation: Team-like army is a collective noun. Collective nouns are neuter gender. so it takes the pronoun ‘it’.‘The team camped at Namkum. It followed a rigorous routine’.
Explanation: Plural for a dwarf is dwarfs. ‘Who will win if there is a contest between the dwarfs and the giants?’.
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