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SSC CGL Spot the Error — practice questions

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Find the error: 'Everyone have finished the work.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Nobody know the answer to this riddle.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Anyone are welcome to join our club.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Everybody in the hall were clapping loudly.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Either of the roads lead to the station.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Every student have to wear a uniform.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Many a man have regretted his haste.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Each of the players were given a medal.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Five thousand rupees are too much for this bag.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Ten miles are a long walk for a child.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Everything in these shops are expensive.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The MD and the CEO of the company has arrived.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Day and night is alike to a blind man.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Time and tide waits for none.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The Principal along with the teachers are present.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The captain, together with his players, were honoured.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The teacher as well as the students were late.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The poor is not always unhappy.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The police has arrested the thief.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The cattle is grazing in the field.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Neither the manager nor the clerks was present.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Either the boys or their teacher are to blame.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Neither I nor you is to blame.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Not only the students but also the teacher were upset.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'Either you or he have to go.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'These trousers is too long for me.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'A pair of trousers were bought for him.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'The binoculars was kept in a bag.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'This books are in the library.'Read the answer and worked solution →Find the error: 'That dogs bark loudly at night.'Read the answer and worked solution →

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Find the error: 'Everyone have finished the work.'

  1. have finished
  2. Everyone
  3. No error
  4. the work
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Correct answer: A. have finished

Everyone is an indefinite pronoun treated as singular, so the verb must be has finished.

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Find the error: 'Nobody know the answer to this riddle.'

  1. to this riddle
  2. Nobody know
  3. the answer
  4. No error
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Correct answer: B. Nobody know

Nobody takes a singular verb, so know should be knows.

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Find the error: 'Anyone are welcome to join our club.'

  1. are welcome
  2. our club
  3. to join
  4. Anyone
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Correct answer: A. are welcome

Anyone is singular in formal English, so the verb should be is welcome.

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