Quiz – 3

There are 3 errors to spot in the given sentence:

Firstly, as the sentence starts with "while...", any option that follows this clause with "but" is incorrect.

Secondly, "its" is a personal pronoun- not the correct word to use here. "It's" meaning "it is" is the right word to use in the given context.

Thirdly, the sentence says people are paying greater attention to the terrorist threat "then" they used to. This is incorrect. The correct word to use instead is "than".

The correct replacement should be " elsewhere in the world, it’s more that people are paying greater attention to the terrorist threat than they used to." 

As the sentence starts off with Denouncing it..., the clause that follows has to first refer to who denounced it- in this case, it is the critics.

Option B is not correct, as it implies critics impose draconian limits on the activities of trade unions.

The pronoun which after the Lobbying Act in option C clarifies that it is the Act that limits the activities of the trade unions.

The question is  Choose the grammatically correct option.

There are 3 errors to spot in the given sentence:

Firstly, as the sentence starts with while... any option that follows this clause with but is incorrect.

Secondly, its is a personal pronoun- not the correct word to use here. It's meaning it is is the right word to use in the given context.

Thirdly, the sentence says people are paying greater attention to the terrorist threat then they used to. This is incorrect. The correct word to use instead is than.

In the given sentence, ‘they’ in the second clause seems to refer to ‘long-term risk’, which is the subject of the first clause. So it is grammatically incorrect.

Now let us look at the answer options. two independent clauses- (1) Rarely do air-quality indices take long-term risk into account, and (2) they also vary from place to place. Each of these is a sentence in its own right. When joining two independent clauses without the use of a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, or nor), a semicolon has to be used, not a comma.

Correct is a positive description of the solution, while complicated is not. So a parallel sentence construction (in this case, ‘not only…but’) is inappropriate.

 

The sentence given has two errors.

In the sentence given, the clause “whoever is chosen as the new chief” is followed by “it is”, which is incorrect. The person chosen as the new chief cannot be referred to as “it”.

The question is \" Choose the grammatically correct option \"

There are two things to pick up on here- the difference between whose and who’s, and the rules to be followed when using compound adjectives.

Who’s is a contraction of ‘who is’ or ‘who has’. You would use it to ask, for example, “Who’s the first?”.

Whose, on the other hand, is the possessive form of ‘who’ and functions as an adjective or pronoun. For example, “Whose book is this?”

The easiest way to identify which word is right in the given context is to substitute ‘who is/has’ instead of who’s in the sentence and see if it makes sense. If it does, who’s is the word you are looking for.

In the sentence given, ‘whose’ is the correct word to use. It functions as a pronoun for ‘the cricketer’.

Now, in the sentence given ‘eight-year’ is a compound adjective used to describe the noun ‘contract’. The hyphen between the two words is used to link them together and show that it is one adjective.

When compound adjectives include a number + a time period, the word referring to the time period is always in singular form and is joined to the number with a hyphen.

So, the given sentence does not contain any errors.

While ‘beside’ means ‘next to’, ‘besides’ means ‘apart from’. The correct idiomatic usage is ‘beside the point’.

The other aspect to note here is subject-verb agreement. ‘Whether or not the rumors are true’ has to be followed by ‘is’, not ‘are’. Note that ‘whether or not the rumors are true’ is a noun clause. You can replace it with ‘this’: This is beside the point.

‘Was’ is associated with the past tense. The usage of ‘was’ in the given sentence is incorrect.