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English grammar covers how words, phrases and clauses combine to form correct sentences. It includes tenses, parts of speech, prepositions, articles, voice, reported speech, agreement, infinitives, gerunds, adverb position, transitions, punctuation, sentence structure and inversion, with special attention to distinctions such as phrases versus clauses and active versus passive voice.
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- A. During
- B. anything
- C. to spend
- D. 'for themselves'
Explanation: The correct form is "to spend for themselves", not "to spend for themselves".
Correct answer: 'for themselves'4262. Spot the errorA) 'I idly' turned the B) 'leaves', and C) 'begin' to indolently D) 'study' diseases.
- A. 'I idly
- B. leaves'
- C. 'begin
- D. study
Explanation: The correct form is "began to indolently study", not "begin to indolently study".
Correct answer: 'begin- A. 'interest'
- B. 'sift
- C. to
- D. 'the bottom
Explanation: The correct form is "interested in my case", not "interest in my case".
Correct answer: 'interest'- A. feel'
- B. 'It
- C. 'had stopped
- D. to beat'
Explanation: The correct form is "had stopped beating", not "had stopped to beat".The phrase "had stopped to beat" is incorrect because "to beat"…
Correct answer: to beat'- A. 'forgot
- B. 'which'
- C. 'distemper
- D. in
Explanation: The correct form is "plunged into", not "plunged in". The phrase "plunged in" is incorrect because "plunged into" is the correct…
Correct answer: in- A. had
- B. 'known
- C. 'melody'
- D. in
Explanation: The correct word is "malady", not "melody". The word "melody" is incorrect because it's a misspelling. The correct word is "malady".
Correct answer: 'melody'- A. The pedestrian came against me without looking at me.
- B. The pedestrian came by me without looking at me.
- C. The pedestrian came by me without looked at me.
- D. The pedestrian came by mine without looking at me.
Explanation: The pedestrian came by me without looking at me The phrase "came by me" is correct.
Correct answer: The pedestrian came by me without looking at me.- A. It was then that all the implications of my act revealed itself.
- B. It was then that all the implications of mine act revealed themselves,
- C. It was then that all the implications of my act revealed themselves.
- D. It was then that all the implication of my act revealed themselves.
Explanation: It was then that all the implications of my act revealed themselves.The phrase "my act revealed themselves" is correct.
Correct answer: It was then that all the implications of my act revealed themselves.- A. It was a tramp which had other things to think about.
- B. It was a tramp who has other things to think about.
- C. It was a tramp who had others things to think about.
- D. It was a tramp who had other things to think about.
Explanation: It was a tramp who had other things to think about.The phrase "who had other things to think about" is correct.
Correct answer: It was a tramp who had other things to think about.- A. When I reached it I knelt on the seat.
- B. While I reached it I knelt on the seat.
- C. When I reached it I kneel on the seat.
- D. When I reached its I knelt on the seat.
Explanation: When I reached it I knelt on the seat. The phrase "When I reached it I knelt on the seat" is correct.
Correct answer: When I reached it I knelt on the seat.- A. Gout, in its most malignant stage, seized me without mine being aware of it.
- B. Gout, in its most malignant stage, seized me without me being aware of it.
- C. Gout, in its most malignant stage, seized me without my being aware of it.
- D. Gout, in its most malignant stage, seized me without myself being aware of it.
Explanation: Gout, in its most malignant stage, seized me without my being aware of it. The phrase "without my being aware of it" is correct.
Correct answer: Gout, in its most malignant stage, seized me without my being aware of it.- A. There were no more diseases after zymosis so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
- B. There was no more diseases after Zymosis: so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
- C. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I had concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
- D. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
Explanation: There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
Correct answer: There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.- A. All they need to do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
- B. All they need to do would be to walk round I, and, after that, take their diploma.
- C. All they need to do, would be to walk round me, and, after that, took their diploma.
- D. All they need to do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take its diploma.
Explanation: All they need to do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Correct answer: All they need to do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.- A. He will get more practice out of me then out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary. commonplace patients.
- B. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients.
- C. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundreds of your ordinary, commonplace patients.
- D. He will get the more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients.
Explanation: He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients.
Correct answer: He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients.- A. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six alphbets, and the only malady could conclude. I had not got, was housemaid's knee.
- B. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six alphabet, and the only malady could conclude. I had not got, was housemaid's knee.
- C. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I had concluded. I had not got, was housemaid's knee.
- D. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letter, and the only malady I could conclude. I had not got, was housemaid's knee.
Explanation: I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letter, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got, was housemaid's knee.
Correct answer: I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letter, and the only malady I could conclude. I had not got, was housemaid's knee.- A. I was reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which detailed the various symptoms of liver disorder.
- B. I was reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms of liver disorder.
- C. I was reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which had detailed the various symptoms of liver disorder.
- D. I was reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptom of liver disorder.
Explanation: I was reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms of liver disorder.
Correct answer: I was reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms of liver disorder.- A. I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with.
- B. I never read a patent medicine advertisement without impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with.
- C. I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled on the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with.
- D. I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt.
Explanation: I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease…
Correct answer: I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with.- A. I remember to go to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch.
- B. I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for any slight ailment of which I had a touch.
- C. I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight element of which I had a touch.
- D. I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch.
Explanation: I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch The phrase "going…
Correct answer: I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch.- A. The only thing that I could gain from that was to feel certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
- B. The only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than ago that I had scarlet fever.
- C. The only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that i had scarlet fever
- D. Only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
Explanation: The only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
Correct answer: The only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that i had scarlet fever- A. He is an old chum of me, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather.
- B. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looked at my tongue, and talks about the weather.
- C. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks my tongue, and talks about the weather.
- D. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather.
Explanation: He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather.
Correct answer: He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather.