আমরা আপনাদের জন্য এনেছি Special Common Errors – এর সেট, যা বিভিন্ন প্রতিযোগিতামূলক পরীক্ষার প্রস্তুতিতে অত্যন্ত কার্যকর। প্রতিটি প্রশ্নের শেষে সঠিক উত্তর এবং সমাধান দেওয়া থাকবে। নিয়মিত এমন কন্টেন্ট পেতে আমাদের সাথে যুক্ত থাকুন এবং আপনার প্রস্তুতিকে আরো মজবুত করুন। 🎯
Q.1. It’s enough for me (a)/ to be sure that I and you (b)/ exist at this moment. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. b
Sol. Use ‘you and I’ – in place of – ‘I and you’. The order of the pronouns is – second person, third person and first person. So, the correct order becomes – ‘you and I’, as ‘you’ is second person and ‘I’ is the first person here.
Q.2. They were so close (a)/ to each other that (b)/ they preferred death for separation. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. c
Sol. Use the preposition ‘to’ – in place of – ‘for’. After the verb ‘prefer’, preposition ‘to’ is used.
Ex- I prefer Rome to London.
Q.3. The gypsy proclaimed with harsh accent (a)/ that “Things have a life of their own”, (b)/ “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. a
Sol. Use ‘a harsh accent’ – in place of – ‘harsh accent’. We have to use the indefinite article ‘a’ before the adjective ‘harsh’ for the noun ‘accent’.
Q.4. Death really did not matter to him but life did, (a)/ therefore the sensation he felt when they given their decision (b)/ was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. b
Sol. Use ‘gave’ – in place of – ‘given’. The sentence is framed in the past simple tense, so, we have to use the second form of the verb ‘gave’ instead of the third form of the verb ‘given’.
Q.5. The secret of a good old (a)/ age is simply honourable (b)/ pact with solitude.(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. b
Sol. Use the indefinite article ‘an’ before the adjective ‘honourable’ for the noun ‘pact’.
Q.6. He pleaded so much (a)/ that he lost his voice and(b)/ his bones began to fill with words.(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. d
Sol. No error
Q.7. A person does not belong (a)/ to a place until and unless (b)/ there is someone dead under the ground.(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. d
Sol. No error (‘Until’ and ‘unless’ can be used together).
Q.8. The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, (a)/ after all, her whole life had been spent (b)/ as if it was raining.(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. c
Sol. Use ‘it were raining’ – in place of – ‘it was raining’. This sentence is an imaginary sentence, and we use the verb ‘were’ in imaginary sentences whether the subject is singular or plural.
Q.9. An artisan without memories, (a)/ whose only dream were to die of fatigue in the oblivion (b)/ and misery of his little gold fishes.(c)/ No error (d)
Ans. b
Sol. Use ‘was’ – in place of – ‘were’. The subject of the sentence is ‘an artisan’, (we have used ‘whose’ for it), which is singular in nature, so, the singular verb ‘was’ should be used here instead of the plural verb ‘were’.
Q.10. In beginning, when the world (a)/ was new and nothing had a name, (b)/ my father took me to see ice. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. a
Sol. Use ‘in the beginning’ – in place of – ‘in beginning’. We use the definite article ‘the’ when we talk about ‘beginning’ and ‘end’.
Ex- We can put it either at/in the beginning or at/in the end.
Q.11. It had never occurred to him until then (a)/ to think that literature was the best plaything (b)/ that had ever invented to make fun of people. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. c
Sol. Use ‘that had ever been invented’ – in place of – ‘that had ever invented’. The sentence is framed in the passive sense, so, the correct formation will be – literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented (by mankind) to make fun of people.
Q.12. “Men demand much more than you think,” she said, (a)/“There’s a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering (b)/ over little things beyond what you thought.” (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. c
Sol. Use ‘you think’ – in place of – ‘you thought’. The reporting speech is given in the present tense (as we can see the verb ‘demand’ and ‘think’), and it talks about men in general sense that men demand much more than one can think, so, we have to use the first form of the verb ‘think’ instead of the past form ‘thought’.
Q.13. Love on one side was defeating the love (a)/ on the other side, because it was characteristic of men (b)/ to deny hunger once their appetites were satisfy. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. c
Sol. Use ‘were satisfied’ – in place of – ‘were satisfy’. The last part of the sentence is framed in the passive sense, so, we have to use the past participle ‘satisfied’ here instead of the first form of the verb ‘satisfy’.
Q.14. Look at the mess we’ve got (a)/ ourselves into, just because we invited a (b)/ gringo to eat some bananas. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. d
Sol. No error
Q.15. Nothing made him to desist (a)/ except his own lamentable (b)/ state of demoralization. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. a
Sol. Use ‘made him desist’ – in place of – ‘made him to desist’. In an active voice sentence, after the verb ‘make’, we use bare infinitive (first form of the verb).
Ex- Active voice – She made me do it.
Ex- Passive voice – I was made to do it by her.
Q.16. The best friend a person (a)/ can have, is the one (b)/ who had just died. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. c
Sol. Use ‘has just died’ – in place of – ‘had just died’. The sentence is framed in the present tense (as we can see the modal verb ‘can’), so, the latter part of the sentence should be in the present perfect tense (has just died) instead of the past perfect tense (had just died).
Q.17. She had reached (a)/ till her old age with (b)/ all of her nostalgias intact. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. b
Sol. Remove the preposition ‘till’. It’s not required here.
Q.18. In the last two hours of his life (a)/ he has failed to understand why the fear that had plagued him (b)/ since childhood had disappeared. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. b
Sol. Use ‘failed’ – in place of – ‘has failed’. The sentence is framed in the past tense, so, we have to keep it in the past simple tense instead keeping it in the present perfect tense.
Q.19. Both of them was found themselves off course (a)/ in the tide of a world that had ended, (b)/ of which only the nostalgia remained. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. a
Sol. Use ‘found’ – in place of – ‘was found’. The sentence is framed in the past tense in the active form, so, we have to remove the verb ‘was’ from the sentence.
Q.20. That woman of unbreakable nerves (a)/ who at no moment in her life (b)/ had been heard to sing. (c)/ No error (d)
Ans. d
Sol. No error
