Grammar Challenge Hub: ERROR AND CORRECTION

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Easy – Class 6 & Class 8 – Intermediate – Class 8 & Class 10 – Hard – Class 10 & Class 12

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🌟 Lesson: Spotting & Correcting Grammar Errors 🌟

📚 Objective:

To help students identify and correct grammatical or idiomatic errors in a sentence.

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🧠 What Are Error Spotting Questions?

In these questions, you are given a sentence that may contain a grammatical mistake. Your job is to:

1. Find the incorrect word or phrase
2. Write the correct version

These errors could relate to verbs, subject-verb agreement, modifiers, prepositions, pronouns, tenses, or word order.

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📌 Common Error Types and Clues

Error Type	What to Look For
Subject-Verb Agreement	Singular/plural mismatch – e.g., The team were ready → was
Verb Tense	Wrong time reference – e.g., He go yesterday → went
Infinitive/Verb Form	Wrong verb form after “to” – e.g., to fights → fight
Modifiers	Misplaced or dangling – e.g., Being old, the toy broke (who is old?)
Pronoun Errors	Wrong usage – e.g., between you and I → me
Comparison Errors	Like/senior/prefer use – e.g., senior than → to
Redundancy	Repeated words – e.g., of of → of
Preposition Errors	Wrong preposition – e.g., insist for → on*

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✏️ Example with Step-by-Step Explanation:

Sentence: Some guys like to fights on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

Step	Check	Observation
1	Is the verb form correct after “to”?	❌ No. “to” should be followed by base verb – not “fights”
2	Check subject-verb match	✅ “guys like” – correct
3	Check for meaning clarity	✅ Sentence makes sense once verb is corrected

✔️ Correction: Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds…

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🧠 Tips to Spot Errors Quickly:

• Read the sentence aloud – it often sounds wrong when read naturally.
• Look for one clause at a time – spot verb and subject match.
• Underline possible error phrases and replace them mentally.
• Eliminate double words, wrong modifiers, wrong comparisons.

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📝 Mini Practice Exercise:

Sentence	Incorrect Word	Correct Word
1. The boy don’t like to eat vegetables.	don’t	doesn’t
2. She prefer tea than coffee in the mornings.	than	to
3. Being a rainy day, the match was cancelled by the organizers.	Being a rainy day	As it was a rainy day
4. The teacher asked the students that why they were late.	that	why

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📘 Now You Try!

Explore the exercises from Class 6 to 12 below and spot the errors yourself!