TOEFL Test Preparation

Grammar Test 4 (Error Recognition)

The sentences given below are divided into three parts (a), (b) and (c). One of these parts may contain an error. You have to indicate that part as your answer. If there are no errors, indicate (d) as your answer. Note that you only have to indicate the error; you don’t have to correct it.

1. Six years before, (a) / Alice, a French woman, left her job (b) / and accompanied her husband to India. (c)/ No error (d)

2. After moving to India, Alice decided to do something different from (a) / what she is doing (b) / and started teaching blind children in the age group of two to five years. (c)/ No error (d)

3. Alice not only volunteers with her own services, (a) / she emails other French nationals in Mumbai and (b) / gets them involved with the activities of the school. (c)/ No error (d)

4. Tata Motors has entered (a) / into a definitive agreement with Ford on March 26 to acquire the two British luxury brands, (b) / Jaguar and Land Rover, at an estimated 2.3 billion dollars. (c)/ No error (d)

5. Finance Minister said that the country’s economy was growing (a) / at the slowest pace in four years in the next 12 months (b) / as a result of a global slowdown. (c)/ No error (d)

6. According to scientists, black carbon, (a) / emitting from biomass burning, (b) / diesel engine exhaust and cooking fires has a warming effect in the atmosphere (c)/ three to four times greater than prevailing estimates. No error (d)

7. The US space shuttle Endeavour has been landing (a) / successfully in Florida after the longest mission (b) / of its kind to the International Space Station. (c)/ No error (d)

8. During their 16-day mission, (a) / the space shuttle's crew was installing (b) / the first part of a Japanese research laboratory and assembled a Canadian robot. (c) / No error (d)

9. A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism market (a) / with a two-seater rocket ship capable (b) / to making flights to heights (c)/ more than 60 kilometres above the Earth. No error (d)

10. It seems India is all set (a) / to becoming the second largest cell user (b) / in the world after China. (c)/ No error (d)

11. Universities across the country may (a) / soon will have their own (b) / on-campus Kendriya Vidyalayas. (c)/ No error (d)

12. Employees at a growing number of organizations today start and end (a) / their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner (b) / that is recording the precise time of their arrival and departure. (c)/ No error (d)

13. Fingerprint readers come with software (a) / that enable them do (b) / what they are supposed to. (c) / No error (d)

14. Among biometric verification technologies, (a) / fingerprint scanning is probably the best (b) / as it is delivering good performance (c) / and is affordable in terms of price. No error (d)

15. Glaciers are usually found in high altitudes (a) / and latitudes were large amounts (b) / of snow build up and freeze into ice. (c) / No error (d)

16. The amplifier in a radio strengthens the radio waves it receives, (a) / and the speaker changes them back into the original sound waves (b) / that were going into the microphone in the studio. (c)/ No error (d)

17. Kosovo, a former territory of Serbia, (a) / has declared itself (b) / a sovereign and independent state on February 2008. (c)/ No error (d)

18. During the Ottoman rule, Christian Serbs in Kosovo emigrated (a) / and the region was growing (b) / increasingly more populated by Albanians who were largely Muslim. (c)/ No error (d)

19. The banking sector today requires (a) / a lot of technical and administrative (b) / staff to farther expand their operations. (c)/ No error (d)

20. Investment banking is (a) / as far as the (b) / most coveted job option in banking. (c)/ No error (d)

21. In yet another attempt to deter people from lighting up in public (a) / and reduce the risk of passive smoking, the Union Health Ministry is planning to penalize (b) / organizations which allow its employees to smoke. (c)/ No error (d)

22. Dealing with people (a) / who are aggressive and angry (b) / require a great deal of patience and tact. (c)/ No error (d)

23. If you would have told me (a) / that you were in Mumbai, (b) / I would have certainly contacted you. (c) / No error (d)

24. The receptionist must answer (a) / politely the questions (b) / what are asked by the callers. (c) / No error (d)

25. The supervisors reprimanded (a) / the typists whom (b) / he believed had made careless errors. (c) / No errors (d)

Answers

1. Part a: It should be ‘Six years ago’
2. part b: it should be ‘what she had been doing’
3. part b: it should be ‘she also emails other French nationals in Mumbai and’
4. part a: it should be ‘Tata Motors entered’
5. part a : it should be ‘Finance Minister said that the country’s economy may grow’
6. part b: it should be ‘emitted from biomass burning’
7. part a: it should be ‘The US space shuttle Endeavour has landed’
8. part b: it should be ‘the space shuttle's crew installed’
9. part c: it should be ‘of making flights to heights’
10. part b: it should be ‘to become the second largest cell user’
11. part b: it should be ‘soon have their own’ (remove will)
12. part c: it should be ‘that records the precise time of their arrival and departure’
13. part b: it should be ‘that enable them to do’
14. part c : it should be ‘as it delivers good performance’
15. part b: it should be ‘and latitudes where large amounts’
16. part c: it should be ‘that went into the microphone in the studio’
17. part b: it should be ‘declared itself’
18. part b: it should be ‘and the region grew’
19. part c: it should be ‘staff to further expand their operations’
20. part b: it should be ‘by far the’
21. part c: it should be ‘organizations which allow their employees to smoke’
22. part c: it should be ‘requires a great deal of patience and tact’
23. part a: it should be ‘If you had told me’
24. part c: it should be ‘asked by the callers’
25. part c: it should be ‘they believed had made careless errors’

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