Error Identifications Quiz-1

Answer - being increasing employment

'Have been increasing' should be used instead of 'being'.

Since the action is a continuous action and the countries are in the process of increasing the opportunities, we use ‘present perfect continuous’ form. So the structure that follows is (have/has + been + ing form of verb).

Answer - forgot to take their bags

'Their' should be replaced with 'her', as we are talking about one person, either Khushi or Payal. So we use a singular pronoun to identify the subject.

Answer - she will have helped

We use 'will have' when we are looking back from the present (a point in time) when something will have happened, e.g., by the end of this year, the scientists will have discovered a vaccine for swine flu.

'Would have' is used as the past tense form of will have. We also use 'would have' in past conditionals to talk about something that did not happen, e.g., if it had been a summer season we would have gone for swimming. So 'will' should be replaced with 'would':

The structure for past conditional sentence is:

If clause - (if + had)

Main clause - (would + have + past participle)

Answer: Kanchenjunga and setting sun

The definite article 'the' is used before the names of seas, rivers, lakes, and celestial objects (sun, moon, earth) etc., and before the names of mountain groups.

So, add the article 'the' before 'Kanchenjunga' and 'the setting sun’.

Answer - Rehan and his friends have

According to grammatical structures, if the adverbial of time (last week) i.e., of the past is mentioned in a sentence then we use past simple tense or past perfect to express the action.

However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple. So here we use ‘had requested’ because Rehan and his friends requested to submit the list even before the speaker did. Hence, double past action.

Answer - Kelly did not inform us about

The context says that until the present time, the information has not been shared. We come to know about this by using 'yet'.

Use of the keyword 'yet' explains that we need to use present perfect tense as it hints at the action up to present time.

According to grammatical rules, therefore, we need to use 'has not informed' instead of 'did not inform' (which is past simple tense).

Answer - Neha has tried to pass the

To express a period of time/a long span of time, 'for' is used.

Example- for 12 weeks, for 10 days etc.

Also, in such cases where the period of time is mentioned and the action expressed is one that started in the past and is still in continuation, we use present perfect continuous tense.

So, it will be 'has been trying' instead of 'has tried'.

Answer - It is high time that we come up

According to grammatical structures for tenses, in case of use of phrases such as 'it is time / it is high time', we use past simple tense. This expresses that by this time, the action should have been completed, but actually, it has not.

Therefore, the past form of verb will be used i.e. 'came up' instead of 'come up’ (present form of verb).

Answer - Now-a-days it had become very

Here the context says that the action addressed is for the ongoing days i.e. nowadays.

In such a case, the present continuous tense

So, instead of 'had become' (past perfect) it should be 'is becoming' (present continuous).

Answer - to the project, we will

The given sentence is a conditional one. Also the use of tense in the conditional clause is past i.e., 'did not contribute'. So, this tells that the use is of second conditional.

In the case of the second conditional, the modal verb used is also of past tense.

If + past form; would/should/could

Therefore, it will be 'we would' instead of 'we will'.