The new updated list of ‘spotting the error’ is here. I have tried to cover all the important concepts of English Grammar through these list of sentences which will definitely help in preparing for the upcoming competitive exams. If you notice any error please comment down below and don’t forget to share if you like it.

1. I / have seen him / yesterday. / No error.

Ans. Keywords like yesterday, last year, last month, already, etc. denote the usage of Simple Past Tense in the sentence. So ‘have seen’ should be replaced by ‘saw’.

2. He is / residing here / since 1987. / No error.

Ans. ‘For’ and ‘since’ denote the presence of Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous Tense. So here the sentence should be ‘He has been residing here since 1987.’

3. When we got to / the theatre, the programme / by Hollywood stars was begun. / No error.

Ans. This is the conditional sentence in which the Past Perfect Tense indicates that an action was completed (already started). So here should be ‘Hollywood stars had already begun.’

4. Neither my team nor my coach / were to blame for our defeat in cricket tournament / for the opposite team was far better than us. / No error.

Ans. When the subject joined by ‘or’ or ‘nor’ are of different persons, the verb agrees with the nearer subject. Here ‘coach’ is the nearest subject to the verb so ‘were’ should be replaced by ‘was’.

5. He served as President / of the Lions Club / since fifteen years. / No error.

Ans. ‘Since’ is used for a particular frame of reference in the past and ‘For’ is used for the duration of the period elapsed. Here ‘fifteen years’ denote the duration, so for shall be used here.

6. This comes at a / moment when resource allocation / is been doubled. / No error.

Ans. The error is in part 3 where ‘has been doubled’ must be used instead of ‘is been doubled’.

7. The state has adequate resources / but problems arise / when these are not allocated evenly. / No error.

Ans. There is no error in the sentence.

8. My cousin / who lives in Dehradun / have come to stay with us. / No error.

Ans. ‘Cousin’ is singular so the antecedent verb also should be singular. So ‘have’ should be replaced by ‘has’.

9. If I was he / I would not accept / this offer. / No error.

Ans. In conditionals, If subject wishes to be someone then ‘were’ should be used.

10. I insisted / on her going / there immediately. / No error.

Ans. There is no error in the sentence.

11. We have been knowing / each other / since we were children. / No error.

Ans. The action that has started at an unspecified time always use Present Perfect Tense. So the sentence should be ‘ We have known each other since we were children.’

12. He / insisted on / he was honest. / No error.

Ans. We use the word ‘that’ to introduce the reported speech. So ‘He insisted that he was honest’.

13. Neither of the scouts know / how to trap wild animals / or how to prepare them for running. / No error.

Ans. ‘Neither’ means ‘no one among the two’, which indicates that it is a singular term. With a singular term, the use of ‘know’ is incorrect. Therefore, it should be converted to ‘knows’ and make the part 1 as the error.