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    Topic: Identifying Errors: New Curriculum 2023

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    Topic: Identifying Errors: New Curriculum 2023

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    The document provides examples of identifying errors in sentences. Each example shows a sentence with a potential error, the identified error, and an explanation of the error. The errors involve issues like subject-verb agreement, pronoun consistency, parts of speech, tense agreement and other grammatical rules. The document aims to help readers learn to identify grammatical errors in sentences through examples.

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    The document provides examples of identifying errors in sentences. Each example shows a sentence with a potential error, the identified error, and an explanation of the error. The errors involve issues like subject-verb agreement, pronoun consistency, parts of speech, tense agreement and other grammatical rules. The document aims to help readers learn to identify grammatical errors in sentences through examples.

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    TOPIC: IDENTIFYING ERRORS

    NEW CURRICULUM
    2023
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -

    1. If you are sure that A you are in the right, B


    you would not C mind an independent
    examination of D the case. No error E.

    ANSWER: would not C

    Explanation:
    After a present tense in the if clause,
    we need a future tense in the main clause.
    Would should be changed to will. 
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    2. The union insisted A on an increase in their B
    members’ C starting pay, and threatened to call
    a strike if the company refused to D meet the demand.

    ANSWER: their B

    Explanation:
    Change their to its because
    the union is a singular noun.
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    3. We have no choice but A to appoint
    Mary: B she is the best C of the two candidates,
    and there is D no prospect of finding more applicants.

    ANSWER: best C

    Explanation:
    Since there are only two candidates
    we must use better not best.
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    4. The farmer should not have been A
    so careless as B to leave the door of the house
    unbolted when C he had gone D to bed. No error E.

    ANSWER: had gone D

    Explanation:
    No need for a past perfect tense here: use went.
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    5. My uncle, who A was B on vacation,
    along with my two cousins and I C ,
    went D fishing down by the river. No error E.

    ANSWER: I C

    Explanation:
    Change I to me (object of a preposition).
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    6. Either of the solutions you have A
    proposed are B acceptable to the union,
    whose C members are willing D to compromise.
    No error E.

    ANSWER: are B

    Explanation:
    Either requires a singular verb: change are to is.
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    7. For a successful career as A a beautician,
    one B must be prepared to dissemble: C
    you must not tell your client the unvarnished truth
    about his or her D appearance. No error E.

    ANSWER: one B

    Explanation:
    For pronoun continuity, change one to you.
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    8. She wondered whether A the city
    had changed alot B since she had
    left to go to C university. D No error E.

    ANSWER: alot B

    Explanation:
    “Alot” should be two words.
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    9. The presence of strong feeling,
    the cause of which A is not fully understood,
    always has the effect B of making we C
    human beings D uneasy. No error E.

    ANSWER: we C

    Explanation:
    Change we to us
    CIVIL SERVICE REVIEW (NEW
    CURRICULUM)
    - IDENTIFYING ERRORS -
    10. Was the woman who A you think
    you saw B leaving the building wearing C
    a nurse’s D uniform? No error E.

    ANSWER: who A

    Explanation:
    Change who to whom..
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