Thursday, June 18, 2015

Spotting Errors in English Sentences for SSC Exams - part 1

In this sequence of last post related to Error finding in sentences the first chapter which a student must prepare is Syntax chapter, which covers the various grammar rules for Part of  Speech which will help you to solve English (5 to 10) questions of error in all the competitive exams.Now I would like present more rule for you to prepare for your systematic preparations of English and recommend you to kindly get through these rules properly and prepare them to follow in error finding questions. 


Rules Continues :-

Rule No. 04th :- Needn’t and daren’t are used in plural form with singular or plural subject in a sentence. “To” is not used with them. These are used in a sentence as marginal auxiliary verb.

Example :- (i) She needsn’t go there.   (wrong sentence)
                         She needn’t go there.   (correct sentence)

                    (ii) He daresn’t oppose his father.   (wrong sentence)
                          He daren’t oppose his father.   (correct sentence)

                    (iii) He daren’t come here.   (correct sentence)
                     (iv) You needn’t go there.   (correct sentence)

But Dare/ Need are used as main verb in both singular and plural form. “To” is used according to the requirement only.

Example :-  (i) He dares to face the difficulties.

                     (ii) She needs a book.

                     (iii) They need books.

                     (iv) He (s. subject) does (s. auxiliary verb) not dare (verb) to go out in the Sun.

                     (v) She (s. subject) does (s. auxiliary verb) not need (verb) a book.

                     (vi) I do (p. auxiliary verb) not need a pen.

                     (vii) He dares to oppose his teacher.

                    (viii) She needs to come here.

Rule No. 05th :- Suppositional sentences; sentences starting  with (if, as if, as though, if only, suppose, I wish, He wishes, She wishes………..) in these sentences pure imagination or totally impossible conditions are shown. After these words, whatever the subject used either (singular / plural) but the verb used must be plural in form only.

Example :- (i) I wish Manisha was my friend. (wrong sentence)
                          I wish Manisha were my friend. (correct sentence)  

                      (ii) If he was my boss, he would suspend me. (wrong sentence)
                           If he were my boss, he would suspend me. (correct sentence)

(iii) Mahesh talks to me as if he was the General Manager of the company. (wrong sentence)
     Mahesh talks to me as if he were the General Manager of the company. (correct sentence)

Rule No. 06th :- If two singular nouns in a sentence are added with the help of “and” used as the subject of the sentence, then the verb used with them is always plural in number.

Example :- (i) Ravi and Kavi have done well in the examination.

                    (ii) A boy and a girl love each other.  
                                                                                             (To be continued soon.............)

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