Error Detection and Sentence Correction Flashcards

Identify the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error: 'She don't like the way he speaks to her during team meetings.'

Answer: She don't like

'Don't' is incorrect for a third-person singular subject. 'She' requires 'doesn't': the correct sentence is 'She doesn't like the way he speaks to her during team meetings.'

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

Answer: Neither the manager nor the employees were informed about the policy change.

In 'neither…nor' constructions, the verb agrees with the subject closest to it (the 'nor' subject). 'The employees' is plural, so the verb must be plural: 'were.' Options A, C, and D use singular or incorrect forms.

Identify the error in the following sentence: 'I have been living in this city since three years.'

Answer: 'since' should be 'for'

'Since' marks a specific point in time (since 2021, since Monday). 'For' marks a duration (for three years, for a long time). Because 'three years' is a duration, the correct preposition is 'for': 'I have been living in this city for three years.'

Which underlined part of the following sentence contains an error? 'Between you and I, this strategy is unlikely to succeed in the current market.'

Answer: Between you and I

Prepositions such as 'between' must be followed by object pronouns, not subject pronouns. 'I' is a subject pronoun; the correct object pronoun is 'me'. The phrase should be 'Between you and me.'

Find the single error in: 'The committee has made it's final decision and will announce the results tomorrow.'

Answer: 'it's' should be 'its'

'It's' is a contraction meaning 'it is' (e.g., 'it is final'). The possessive form — meaning 'belonging to it' — is 'its' without an apostrophe. The sentence needs the possessive: 'its final decision.'

Choose the grammatically correct sentence:

Answer: He is one of those managers who push their team beyond reasonable limits.

The relative pronoun 'who' refers to 'those managers' (plural), not to 'one'. The verb and pronoun in the relative clause must therefore be plural: 'who push their team.' Option A incorrectly treats 'one' as the antecedent.