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One of the most important and high scoring section in verbal ability portion of any test, SC is generally
taken by students to be English grammar. This is a misconception as the questions asked in this section
are based not only on the fundamentals of grammar but also on correct usage of various words. The
students find it difficult to crack these because they are not familiar with the subtle nuances of the
language.
Though the intricacies of this language are far more than what can be covered here, we can take a short
cut route to answering these questions. Looking at the questions from various sources we have made a
list of common sentence correction errors that are repeated frequently. We will be discussing the list in
detail and will equip our self to handle almost all the questions in this section.
2. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
The verb in a sentence must agree with its subject.
(i) They both should be either singular or plural.
Example:
(iv) All the sentences that begin with EACH, EVERYONE and ANYONE will have a singular verb.
Example:
3. PARALLELISM
While forming a sentence, the structure of the sentence should be kept parallel. If an infinitive is used,
then all the phrases should have an infinitive. If a verb is used after it, then we use the objective cases.
Example:
4. TAUTOLOGICAL ERROR
Sometimes also referred a ‘redundancy’, this is the error of writing the same thing twice.
Example:
He returned back from Delhi.
I hardly have any money to give you.
The correct constructions should be;
He came back from Delhi.
I have no money to give you.
5. MISPLACED MODIFIER
A common blunder is to leave a participle dangling without a subject.
Example:
7. COMPARISONS
The comparisons made should be between two similar things. If we say:- The population of London is
greater than any other city in India. We are comparing:-
(a) The population of London
(b) Any other city in India.
While comparison had to be made between the populations of both. So, the correct expression should
be:-
The population of London is greater than that of any other city in India.
(a) When comparative degree is used with than, make sure that we exclude the thing compared from the
rest of class of things by using the
Example: