AMCAT Error Identification Quiz-1

Answer - B

The error lies in the usage of the word ‘rapid’. Here ‘rapid’ is an adjective while we need an adverb before the verb ‘contract’ to describe the nature of contraction.
Hence we use ‘rapidly contract’.

Answer - prepares from the internet.

Here the error lies in ‘prepares’. Since the subject of the sentence ‘students’ is in plural term, we use ‘prepare’ as a plural verb.

Answer - A
The error lies in the term ‘a’. The article that we use here should be ‘an’ because it is followed by a vowel (intelligent).

Answer - A

The error lies in the use of ‘surprising’.
Here Surprising is an adjective while surprised is a verb. We have already used the adjective ‘quite’ before the verb, so we need to use ‘surprised’ which would refer to the subject’s emotion.

Hence, quite surprised is correct.

Answer - C

Here the error lies in the use of ‘on’. Here, ‘on’ means a specific location where something is kept while the actual preposition that we need to use is ‘from’ which shows us where the speaker was standing when she looked at the lake.

So on the top of the hill means the lake was situated on the top but that cannot be true since you cannot see what is located on top without being there at the top.
Also because it says she wanted to jump into the lake, means that she was standing on top and wanted to jump down.

Answer - B

When mentioning any city or location, we generally do not use any article before it. So use of ‘the’ before Mumbai here is incorrect and should be eliminated from the sentence to make it correct.

Answer - of advise on how to choose

The correct word to use here should be ‘advice’.

Let’s understand the difference between between the two:

Advice is a noun: to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following. An opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation. It is an uncountable noun so we often use 'piece' to say 'a piece of advice'.

Advise Is a verb: an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc. The act of giving someone advice (recommending, advising, counselling).

So, here we need a noun (advice) instead of a verb.

Answer - Meet with the deadline within the

The error lies in the use of ‘with’ between meet and deadline. The verb ‘meet’ is directly followed by the noun ‘the deadline’ without any extra use of preposition.

 

Answer - B

When we use the infinitive verb ‘to’ the right verb to use should be in the simplest form (reduce). Whereas, when we use ‘for’ we use the gerund form (reducing). So instead of using ‘reducing’ we use ‘reduce’ here to make the sentence grammatically correct.

Answer - Advit was hopeful to clear the final round
The term ‘to clear’ will be replaced by ‘of clearing’.

Reason - when we use the adjective ‘hopeful’ it is often followed by the gerund form of the verb, whereas, when we use the verb ‘hoping’ we use ‘to + the simple form of verb’.

Hoping to clear and hopeful of clearing.