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of the SSC Exams. So we are providing you the Spotting Errors rules Part – II. These rules will be helpful for your upcoming SSC Exams 2016. If you like it let us know.
In our earlier article we have covered the first part of spotting the error rules. Now we will proceed with the second part of "Spotting the Errors rules".
26. Some nouns have one meaning in the singular and another in the plural:
Advice = counsel advice's = information
Air = atmosphere, airs = proud
Authority = command, authorities = persons in power
Good = wise, goods = property
Iron = metal, irons = fetters, chains
Force = strength, forces = army
Content = satisfaction, contents = things contained
Physic = medicine, physics = physical sciences,
Respect = regards, respects = compliments
Work = job, works = compositions, factories,.
Earning = income ,earnings = sowing
Quarter = one – fourth ,quarters = houses
Examples
(A) Air is necessary for human life.
(B) It is bad to put on airs.
(A) I have eaten one quarter of the cake.
(B) I live in the government quarter
27. While using ‘everybody’ ‘everyone’, ‘anybody’, and ‘each’ the pronoun of the masculine or the feminine gender is used according to the content.
Each of the six boys in the class has finished their tasks. Incorrect
Each of the six boys in the class has finished his task. Correct
28. The pronoun ‘one’ must be followed by ‘one’s’.
One must finish his task in time. Incorrect
One must finish one’s task in time. Correct
29. Enjoy, apply, resign, acquit, drive, exert, avail, pride, absent, etc., when used as transitive verbs, always take a reflexive pronoun after them.
When ‘self’ is added to ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘him’, ‘her’, and ‘it’, and ‘selves’ to our and them – they are known as reflexive pronouns.
He absented from the class. Incorrect
He absented himself from the class. Correct
30. Who’ denotes the subject and ‘whom’ is used for the object?
Whom do you think won the award? Incorrect
Who do you think won the award? Correct
Who are you talking to? Incorrect
Whom are your talking to? Correct
31. ‘Whose’ is used for living persons and ‘which’ for lifeless objects.
What book do you read? Incorrect
Which book do you read? Correct
32. ‘When’ denotes a general sense and ‘while’ implies a time duration of doing something.
When learning how to sing, technique is of utmost importance. Incorrect
While learning how to sing, technique is of utmost importance. Correct
33. ‘Unless’ expresses a condition and is always used in the negative sense. Thus ‘not’ is never used with ‘unless’.
Unless you do not work hard, you will not excel in the examination. Incorrect
Unless you work hard, you will not excel in the examination. Correct
34. ‘Though’ is followed by ‘yet’ and not by ‘but’.
Though he is poor but he is honest. Incorrect
Though he is poor, yet he is honest. Correct
35. An infinitive verb should never be split.
I request you to kindly tell me. Incorrect
I request you kindly to tell me. Correct
36. ‘Some’ is used in affirmative sentences to express quantity or degree. ‘Any’ is used in negative or interrogative sentences.
I shall buy some
I shall not buy any
Have you bought any apples?
But ‘some’ may be correctly used in interrogative sentences which are, in fact, requests.
Will you please give me some milk? Correct
I shall read any Incorrect
I shall read some book. Correct
Have you bought some apples? Incorrect
Have you bought any apples? Correct
37. Use of ‘less’ and ‘fewer’
‘Less’ denote quantity and ‘fewer’ denote number.
No less than fifty persons were killed. Incorrect
No fewer than fifty persons were killed. Correct
There are no fewer than five liters of water in the jug. Incorrect
There are no less than five liters of water in the jug. Correct
38. Use of little, a little, the little.
‘Little’ means ‘hardly any’
There is a little hope of his recovery. Incorrect
There is little hope of his recovery. correct
‘A little’ means ‘some’, though not much.
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Incorrect
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Correct
‘The little means ‘not much but all there is’.
The little milk that is in the pot may be used for the patient. Incorrect
The little milk that is in the pot may be used for the patient. Correct
39. Use of elder, older.
‘Older’ refers to persons as well as things and is followed by ‘than’.
Ram is elder than all other boys of this area. Incorrect
Ram is older than all other boys of this area. Correct
‘Elder’ is used for members of the family.
Suresh is my older brother. Incorrect
Suresh is my elder brother. Correct
40. Normally ‘than’ is used in the comparative degree, but with words like superior, inferior, senior, junior, prior, anterior, posterior and prefer ‘to’ is used.
Shelley is junior than Wordsworth. Incorrect
Shelley is junior to Wordsworth. Correct
I prefer reading than sleeping. Incorrect
I prefer reading to sleeping. Correct
That’s how Spotting Error questions are solved easily. We will be providing you with a short quiz based on the above rules shortly
