Common Errors in

English
Dr. H S Komalesha
Department of HSS
Each sentence given below is broken into FOUR parts.
Identify the part that has an error.

1. You need
2. both carrot as well as beans
3. If you wish
4. to prepare Bisi Bele Bath

5. A good sentence in English

6. is one that is
7. brief, short
8. and easy to understand
9. I repeated again my request
10. to the teacher
11. to give me
12. a week more to complete the assignment

13. All appointment orders

14. issued by the Company, stipulate
15. that the appointee will be on probation
16. for a six-months period
17. Every student
18. who involve in ragging
19. will be fined, punished
20. and rusticated from the institute

21. In spite of the tenants’ objections

22. the landlord decided to rise
23. the rent of each apartment
24. by five hundred rupees a month
25. When you come across a new word,
26. you should always refer
27. a good dictionary
28. to get its exact meaning.

29. Of the three options

30. given by the teacher
31. the latter appears
32. to be the best one.
33. The memo issued by the Director
34. informs the people concerned
35. that the meeting scheduled to be held
next week
36. has been preponed

37. One of my friend

38. who stays in London
39. is expected to visit India
40. by the end of next month
41. Do you honestly think
42. that neither the boy
43. nor his sisters
44. is to blame for what happened to us?

45. If one wants to achieve success

46. he should be willing
47. to work hard
48. till the goal is reached
49. Many a time
50. even an expert English teacher
51. makes mistakes
52. while speaking in English

53. Students of Christ college

54. discussed about the problems of
55. developing nations and offered some solutions
56. to overcome them
57. The minister promised
58. to work for
59. the upliftment of
60. the socially downtrodden
people