ERROR ANALYSIS 1

1. What is the higher mountain in the world ?

a. What
b. Is
c. Higher
d. In

2. I wish my mother gives me presents more often.

a. Wish
b. Gives
c. Me
d. More often

3. The teacher was pleasing with the result of your examination.

a. The
b. Was
c. Pleasing
d. Of

4. The little boy didn’t know how lacing his shoes.

a. The little boy

b. Didn’t
c. How
d. Lacing

5. You are quite so thin that you can slip between the bars.

a. Are
b. Quite so
c. Can slip
d. Between

6. To turn on the light, I was surprised at what I saw.

a. To turn
b. On
c. Was
d. At

7. I would rather live on a farm than to live in a city.

a. Would rather
b. Live
c. On
d. To live

8. The school library is free and open for all the pupils and teaching staff.

a. Is
b. And
c. For
d. All

9. Why don’t you borrow books in the local lending library ?

a. Why
b. Don’t
c. Borrow
d. In

10 He had to admit that there were something in what mother kept saying.

a. Admit
b. Were
c. What
d. Saying

11. The students suggested buying flowers for the teachers in the teachers’ day.

a. The students
b. Buying
c. For
d. In

12. No one have solved such a difficult problem.

a. Have
b. Solved
c. Such
d. Difficult

13. During their meat, they discussed what to do at the weekend.

a. During
b. Meat
c. To do
d. At

14. If you write the essay careful, you will get good mark.

a. If
b. Write
c. Careful
d. Will

15. Ordinary Americans are friendly and not afraid to show its feelings.

a. Ordinary
b. Are
c. Not
d. Its

16. The girl who were injured in the accident is now in hospital.
a. Who
b. Were
c. In
d. Is

17. Thank you very much of the present that you sent me.

a. Very
b. Much
c. Of
d. That

18. There wasn’t some directory in the telephone box from which I was phoning.

a. Wasn’t
b. Some
c. The
d. Form

19. The man who I was waiting for didn’t turn up.

a. The man
b. Who
c. Was
d. For

20. Women wear make-up to beautiful themselves.

a. Wear
b. Make-up
c. Beautiful
d. Themselves