English Language Questions for CLAT 2020: Spotting the Errors

Ans. c

Explanation: use ‘into’ instead of ‘to’ because it speaks of something in motion.

Ans. d

Explanation: The sentence is grammatically correct therefore contains no error.

Ans. a

Explanation: use ‘for’ instead of ‘of’. As ‘for’ denotes something you are attached to.

Ans. a

Explanation: ‘as’ will be used after ‘soon’ as the proper conjunction is ‘as soon as’.

Ans. c

Explanation: use ‘any’ instead of ‘either’ as either is used when there is a reference to two things or persons.

Ans. a

Explanation: remove ‘the’ before bed as before school, college, home, church, temple, sea, work, bed, table, hospital, market, prison and court no article is used.

Ans. b

Explanation: use ‘to’ in place of ‘than’ as the following comparative adjectives are followed by ‘to’- superior, junior, senior, prefer, preferable, elder, younger etc..

Ans. a

Explanation: use ‘small’ instead of ‘little’ as the adjectives ‘little’ and ‘few’ are not used to qualify the nouns of quantity and number, instead ‘small’ should be used.

Ans. a

Explanation: remove ‘do not’ as unless means ‘if not’ and therefore, it should not be used in a sentence which is already negative.

Ans. c

Explanation: use ‘among’ instead of ‘between’ as between is used while referring two persons or things whereas among is used for more than two things.