MAGME SCHOOL OF BANKING
Class Room - Daily Dose Booklet
DDB NO: ENG 03
English Language
SPOTTING ERRORS – SET 03
Answers and Explanations
Exercise 61
1. (A) Remove ‘of’. Do not use ‘of’ after ‘despite’. It is superfluous.
2. (C) Remove ‘was’.
3. (A)Say ‘had’ for as’. The correct expression will be –hardly had I ……
4. (B) Replace ‘such’ higher’ with ‘so high’. The sentence is based on the construction so ….. that.
5. (D) No error.
6. (B) Say ‘additions’. Use plural ‘one of……’
7. (C) Replace ‘play’ with ‘playing’.
8. (A) Place ‘better’ after ‘country ‘ to make the proper comparison.
9. (D) No error.
10. (B) Remove ‘a’ before ‘colonel.
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Exercise 62
1. (A) Say ‘no other student’. While making a comparsion , exclusion of the noun being compared is necessary.
2. (B)Say ‘is’ for ‘are’. The subject “the most important feature’ is singular.
3. (D) The sentence is correct.
4. (C) Say ‘has’ for ‘have’. In such construction. The verb is governed my the noun that comes first.
5. (D) The sentence is correct.
6. (C)Remove ‘me’.
7. (A) Place ‘ not only’ after ‘we saw’. The parts of speech following correlative conjunction ‘not only ……but also’ should be same.
8. (A) Say ‘direct’.
9. (A) Remove ‘on’.
10. (B) Say ‘that’ for ‘which’. After same, ‘that’ is used.
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Exercise 63
1. (C) ’To’ in place of ‘for’. Wrong preposition.
2. (A) Remove ‘to’. Never use ‘to’ after ‘told.
3. (C) Use ‘for’ in place of ‘since’. ‘for’ is used for period of time.
4. (A) Say ‘round the clock’.
5. (B) Say ‘richest men’. After ‘one of …..’ use plural noun.
6. (D) No error.
7. (D) No error.
8. (A) Delete ‘shall’. After when, if as soon as etc., don’t use ‘will’ or ‘shall’.
9. (A) Use ‘has’ for ‘have’. The subject is singular.
10. (C) Use ‘beside’ for ‘beside’. ‘beside’ means side while ‘beside’ means in addition.
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Exercise 64
1. (A) Add ‘to’ after ‘us’.
2. (B) Say ‘would leave’. The sentence is in past tense.
3. (A)Delete ‘of’. After ‘despite’ do not use ‘of’, it is superfluous.
4. (B) Say ‘persisted’. The sentence is in past tense.
5. (A) Delete ‘the’ before ‘scholar’. Using article ‘the’ before both the nouns means that there are two persons.
6. (C) Delete ‘more’. Two comparatives should be avoided.
7. (B) Say ‘have admitted’. Use of ‘been’ is unwarranted.
8. (B) Say ‘he does not do’. Wrong use of inversion. This is not a question.
9. (D) no error.
10. (B) Say ‘each other’ for ‘one another’. ‘each other’ is generally used for ‘two’.
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Exercise 65
1. (A) Say ‘a sense of’.
2. (B) Say ‘estimates’. The subject ‘ Encyclopedia Britannica’ is singular.
3. (B) Use ‘nor’ for ‘or’. The sentence is based on conjunction ‘neither …..nor’.
4. (A) Delete ‘shall’. After as soon as/ when/ as/ if. Avoid using shall or will.
5. (A) Use ‘furniture has’. Furniture cannot be pluralized by adding(S).
6. (A) Delete ‘a’.
7. (C) say ‘playing’ for to ‘play’.
8. (D) No error.
9. (A) Use ‘were’ for was’. Plural verb will be used as the pronoun ‘their’ suggests plurality.
10. (B) Say ‘passed’ for ‘nave passed’.
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Exercise 66
1. (B) Delete ‘back’. Use of ‘back’ after ‘returned’ is superfluous.
2. (A) Say ‘break down’.
3. (D) No error.
4. (A) Say ‘called off’.
5. (B) Say ‘upon’ for ‘with’.
6. (A) Use ‘sully’ for ‘sullen’.
7. (B) Say ‘suggestive’ for ‘suggestible’.
8. (B) Say ‘torrent’ for ‘torrential’.
9. (C) Say ‘to rain’.
10. (D) No error.
Exercise 67
1. (C)Write ‘neither’ for ‘either’.
2. (C) Replace ‘because’ with ‘beauty’.
3. (D) No error.
4. (C) Replace ‘could’ with ‘can’.
5. (B) Use ‘with’ in place of ‘for ‘. Wrong use of preposition.
6. (B) Use ‘on’ for ‘at’.
7. (D) The sentence is correct.
8. (C) Say ‘other’ for ‘another’.
9. (B) Say ‘since’ for ‘from’. with perfect tense, use ‘since’ or ‘for’.
10. (A) Remove ‘hardly’. Hardly has a negative effect , don’t use two negative in a sentence.
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Exercise 68
1. (A) Change ‘began to suspect’ by ‘suspected.
2. (A) Delete ‘all the more’. Avoid double comparatives in a sentence.
3. (C) Say….. ‘would lead them’…. The sentence is in past tense.
4. (B) Write ‘and if you had told me all the facts earlier’.
5. (C) Replace ‘among’ with ‘between’. ‘between’ is used for two.
6. (B) Delete ‘for’.
7. (C) Remove ‘more’. ‘preferable’ the comparatives effect , do not use two comparatives in a sentence.
8. (C) It should be …………..as it affects the eyes’.
9. (D) No error.
10. (A) It should be …….. ‘one of our subscribers’. Remembers using plural noun after ‘noe of’.
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Exercise 69
1. (C) It should be …………..’has resigned’. Singular verb is used in such construction.
2. (B) It should be …….. ‘he had been serving’. The use of since shows that perfect tense will be used.
3. (B) It should be …….. ‘and there was no room for the group of reporters.
4. (B) Delete ‘haid’. It should be: ‘and spent an enjoyable day’.
5. (A) Replace ‘than’ with ‘have’. It should be: ‘it is nothing else but……’
6. (A) Replace ‘are’ with ‘have’. It should be : ‘now that my children have grown up…..
7. (A) Replace ‘in ‘ with ‘on’.
8. (D) No error.
9. (B) Replace ‘fly’ with ‘flies’. It should be :’that flies to the breeding ground.
10. (D) No error.
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Exercise 70
1. (B) Add ‘the’ before ‘earth’.
2. (A) Say ‘seldom have we been treated’.
3. (A) Delete ’are’.
4. (C)Replace ‘among’ by ‘between’. ‘between is used for two
5. (C)Write ‘but also miser’. (B) Change ‘of the battery’ to ‘with the battery’.
6. (B) Change ‘of the battery’ to ‘with the battery’.
7. ((A) Change ‘of’ to ‘into’.
8. (D) No error.
9. (C)Replace ‘an argument rose ‘with ‘an argument began’.
10. (B) write ‘where he has gone’.
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Exercise 71
1. (D) No error.
2. (C) Replace ‘it’ with ‘its.
3. (C)Write ‘by bombing at the rail lines and terminals’.
4. (A) Write ‘cut off’. Wrong use of preposition.
5. (B) Write ‘knock on’. Wrong use of preposition.
6. (C) Write ‘hangers on’.
7. (B) Delete ‘for’.
8. (B) Change ‘from’ to ‘at’.
9. (B) It should b ‘is affecting;. Effect is a noun while ‘affect is a verb.
10. (D) No error.
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Exercise 72
1. (B) Replace ‘take out’ with ‘take off’.
2. (A) replace ‘was’ with ‘were’.
3. (A) It should be-‘pretended to be’.
4. (C) It should be- ‘by the seashore’.
5. (C) it should be-‘if I am heat ‘.
6. (D) No error.
7. (A) It should be- ‘the train was supposed.
8. (B) It should be- ‘ when she hear’.
9. (D) The sentence dose not contain any error.
10. (C) Say ‘had been looking’. The content of the sentence shows perfect continuous tense.
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Exercise 73
1. (B) Should be ‘was broadcast’. The past participle of broadcast, not the broadcasted.
2. (B) Should be ‘how she could kill the wolf. It is not an interrogative sentence so no inversion takes place.
3. (A) should be ‘while he was walking slowly in the park, this is the question of dangling participle.
4. (B) Should be ‘travelling has become very pleasant. The use of since shows that the structure of the sentence is in perfect tense.
5. (B) Change ‘exposes ‘ to ‘expose’. The subject the newspaper is plural.
6. (C) Should be ‘and to remember for a longer period of time. \
7. (C) Should be ‘we had been looking for a suitable alliance for three years’. The sentence is in past tense.
8. (C) Should be’ to look after the marketing network of the company.
9. (B) Should be ‘ and the rivers have overflow their banks’. The past participle of flow is flowed.
10. (B) Should be ‘show a mind fully alert to’.
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Exercise 74
1. (D) Should be ‘it was really made in Germany’. The whole sentence is in past tense
2. (B) Should be ‘have no death of opportunities to display their art.
3. (C) Should be ‘ when the master came’. Use ‘when ‘ with ‘scarcely.
4. (B) Should be if I had realized ‘. The is a condition sentence structure.
5. (A) Should be‘ I have been trying to finish.
6. (B) Should be ‘but he turned it down.
7. (B) Should be ‘against the wall below his window ‘.
8. (A) Should be ‘the foremost criterion of selection we adopted ‘. Criteria is the plural of criterion.
9. (B) Say ‘was for ‘am’.
10. (B) Say ‘to’ for ‘with’.
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Exercise 75
1. (A) Should be ‘the principle of equal justices.
2. (D) should be ‘its future programming.
3. (A) should be ‘motorist have to or motorist must.
4. (B) Should be honesty, integrity and intelligence.
5. (C) should be ‘the driver who had had met. Who is used for human being and which for thing.
6. (B) Should be ‘has ever sung’. Three forms of sings are; sing-sang-sung.
7. (C)Should be could dampen’ or was able to dampen.
8. (B) Should be ;any money to pay ;
9. (C) Should be ‘were overlooked by;.
10. (D) Should be hostilities in that area’.
11. (B)Say ‘knock down’.
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Exercise 76
1. (A) Replace ‘Her’ by ‘she’. ‘her’ is a pronoun in objective case, so can’t be used as subject.
2. (B) Replace ‘had been by ‘was’. The sentence is in past tense.
3. (B) Replace ‘are’ by ‘is’. Subject ‘Duke’s collection of early Dutch painting is function as collective noun so verb should be singular.
4. (A) Replace ‘preferred’ by ‘prefer’. The sentence is in present tense.
5. (C) Replace ‘will bring’ by ‘brings’.
6. (B) Replace ‘told’ by ‘tell’. In past interrogative , Ist from of verb is used.
7. (B) Replace ‘to have spent’ by ‘to spend’. Use of ‘have spent’ is illogical.
8. (D) Replace ‘want’ by wants’. With manger (singular number IIIrd person), ‘wants’ will be used.
9. (C) Replace ‘put it’ by them’. Here ‘them’ is used for books.
10. (D) No error.
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Exercise 77
1. (B) Replace ‘beside by ‘beside’.
2. (A) Economies is name of a subject so is will be used.
3. (D) Replace has gone by ‘went’. They sentence is in past tense.
4. (D) Replace the ‘most’ by ‘more’ as ‘more’ is used for comparison of two.
5. (A) Replace ‘wrote’ by ‘write’.
6. (B) Replace ‘worst’ by ‘worse’. For comparison, use comparative degree.
7. (B) Replace ‘are’ by is’. Noun ‘driver’ is singular.
8. (A) Replace ‘peoples’ by ‘some of’. ‘little’ is used for uncountable.
9. (C) Replace ‘is’ by ‘was’.
10. (B) Replace ‘little by peoples.
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Exercise 78
1. (A) Replace ‘might’ by should’. ‘lest’ is always followed by ‘should’.
2. (C) Replace ‘does not speak’ by ‘speaks .‘unless’ is itself negative.
3. (A) place ‘it’ before ‘being’. This is the problem of unrelated participle.
4. (B) Replace ‘who’ by ‘as’ or ‘that’. With ‘such’. As or ‘that’ is person.
5. (B) Replace ‘they’ by ‘he’. Librarian and cashier refers one person.
6. (B) Delete ‘most’ by ‘that’. ‘what’ is followed by ;that’ instead of ‘which.
7. (B) Replace ‘they’ by ‘that’. ‘what’ perfect’ is itself a superlative.
8. (C) Replace ‘were’ by ‘was’. Statesman and politician refers one person.
9. (B) Delete ‘to’.
10. (C) Put ‘from’ before ‘being’. ‘prevented’ is followed by preposition ‘from’.
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Exercise 79
1. (B ) Replace ‘my child’ by ‘child’ s’.
2. (D) Replace ’drink’ by ‘drinking’.
3. (C) Replace ‘any’ by’ some’. ‘some’ is used in affirmative.
4. (C) Replace ‘as to’ by ‘of’. Aware is followed here by preposition ‘of’.
5. (E) No error.
6. (A) Replace ‘crossing the road’ by ‘when he was crossing the road’. This is the problem of unrelated participle.
7. (C) Replace’ were’ by ‘was’. Subject of the verb ‘captain’ is singular.
8. (A) change ‘has come’ to ‘came’.
9. (B) Replace ‘saw’ by ‘see’’.
10. (D) No error.
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Exercise 80
1. (B) Replace ‘have’ by ‘has’. ‘many a’ is followed by singular verb.
2. (C) Replace ‘details’ by ‘detail’.
3. (B) Replace ‘define’ by ‘define’. Subject ‘authorities is plural.
4. (D) Replace ‘like’ by ‘as’. Such is usually followed by ‘as’.
5. (D) Replace ‘an essay’ by ‘the essay’. Here, ‘essay’ become particular.
6. (D) Replace ‘of all animals’ by ‘than any other animal’.
7. (D) No error.
8. (C) Change ‘book’ to ‘books’. One of is always followed by plural.
9. (B) Change ‘was’ to ‘were’. As the subject ‘Rita and her sister’ is plural.
10. (A) Change ‘criteria’ to ‘criterion’. ‘Criteria’ is plural while, ‘Criterion’ is singular.
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Exercise 81
1. (C) Change ‘were not’ to ‘are not’.
2. (B) Change ‘all the future problems’ to ‘the problem of the future’.
3. (A) Change ‘forward for’ to ‘forward to’.
4. (C) Change ‘receive’ to ‘received’.
5. (A) Change to ‘we will not only pack’.
6. (C) Avoid using to double negative. It should be ‘unless full details are given.
7. (D) Change ‘from’ to ‘to’. Should be ‘succumbed to fires recently’.
8. (D) Change for’ to ‘to’. Should be ‘and personal attention to each child.
9. (E) No error.
10. (D) Delete ‘independent’. It should be ‘way of thinking’.
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Exercise 82
1. (A) the word ‘physicists’ is meaning .
2. (A) Change to ‘No other method of making;
3. (C) Change to in Changing the age-old.
4. (E) no error.
5. (D) Change ’have’ to ‘has’ so that the verb should agree with the subject ‘investment’.
6. (D) Change ‘his car to start up’ to ‘his car start up’.
7. (C) (C) Change ‘when it catches fire’ to ‘when it caught fire’.
8. (D) Change ‘he went or not’ to the ‘he had gone or not’.
9. (B) Change ‘suits him and therefore’ to ‘suited him therefore’. Superfluous of ‘and’. Incrorrect use of tense.
10. (E) No error.
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Exercise 83
1. (B) Replace ‘six block and thirty fats’ by ‘six blocks and thirty flats’ ‘six is plural so write ‘blocks’.
2. (C) Replace ‘for better knowledge ‘ by ‘for the better knowledge’. knowledge’ is particularized in the sentence.
3. (C) Change ‘instead of ‘to’. Preposition ‘to’ is used with prefer , senior, junior etc.
4. (D) Replace ‘by the train’ by train’. In phrase like by train., by water , by bus etc., we should not make any change.
5. (C) Replace ‘bad habit’ by ‘bad habits’. After ‘one of’, noun will be in plural from.
6. (A) Replace ‘myself and Ramanujam ‘ by ‘RAmanujam and I’.
7. (B) Change ‘puzzled on’ to ‘puzzled over’. Wrong use of preposition. Since. Inferior, superior, senior, junior, prefer etc. take preposition ‘to’ instead of ‘than’.
8. (B) Change ‘inferior than’ to ‘inferior to’. Wrong use of preposition. Since. Inferior, superior, senior, junior, prefer etc. take preposition ‘to’ instead of ‘than’.
9. (B) Change ‘complained at’ to ‘complained about’. Wrong use of preposition.
10. (E) No error.
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Exercise 84
1. (A) Delete ‘of after ‘comprises’.
2. (A)Change ‘not only the bandits robbed’ to ‘the bandits not only robbed’. Improper placement of conjunction.
3. (C) Change ‘unless she does not have a strong desire to live’ to ‘unless she has a strong desire to live’. Avoid double negative.
4. (D) No error.
5. (B) Change ‘cent per cent’ to ‘hundred percent’. ‘cent percent’ is a wrong expression.
6. (C)Delete ‘the’ before ‘church’. Wrong use of article ‘the’.
7. (B) Replace ‘talk’ by ‘talking’.
8. (A) Change ‘would have’ to ‘had’. See the structure of conditional sentence.
9. (B) Change ‘peak’ to ‘peaks’. After ‘of’, noun is pluralized in such sentences.
10. (C) Change ‘student’ to ‘students’. After ‘of’, noun is pluralized in such sentences.
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Exercise 85
1. (D) Change ‘are’ to ‘is’. When two nouns are joined by the conjunction; with ‘as’ well as’. ‘together with’, ‘besides’, etc., the verb should agree with the lst noun.
2. (A) Change ‘men; to ‘man’.
3. (C) Change ‘’early at’ to ‘early in’. wrong use of preposition.
4. (E) No error.
5. (A) Change ‘worn’ to ‘wore’. ‘wore is the past from of ‘wear’.
6. (E) Change ‘No error. ‘None’ can be used as singular and as plural also.
7. (D) Change ‘from; to by’. Wrong use of article.
8. (B) ) Change ‘a’ to ‘an’. Wrong used to love’. Wrong use of verb.
9. (A) Change ‘ ‘love’ to ‘loved’ or ‘used to love. Wrong use of verb.
10. (C ) Change ‘a duty cost’ to ‘a duty cast’.
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Exercise 86
1. (D) Change ‘the time ‘to about the time’. Wrong use of preposition.
2. (A) Change ‘how do’ to ‘how did’. Wrong use of tense verb.
3. (B) Change ‘sometime’ to ‘sometimes’. Wrong use of word.
4. (D) Change ‘police dog jump’ to ‘police dog jumping’.
5. (D) Change ‘on the door’ to ‘at the door’. Wrong use of preposition.
6. (C) Change ‘of to of’. Wrong use of phrase.
7. (B) Change ‘attitudes’ to ‘attitude’.
8. (B) Change ‘from the hand’ to ‘by the hand’. Wrong use of verb phrase.
9. (D) Change ‘for to ‘of’. Wrong use of preposition.
10. (D) Change ‘her age’ to ‘at her age’.
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Exercise 87
1. (B) Change ‘taller’ to ‘tallest’. Wrong use of degree of adjective.
2. (C) Change ‘who’ to ‘whom’. Wrong use of pronoun.
3. (C) Change ‘or’ to ‘nor’. Wrong use of conjunction.
4. (C) Change ‘since’ to ‘for’. For is used for period of time.
5. (B) Change ‘is divided’ to ‘are divided’. Here, committee is not used as collective noun.
6. (E) No error.
7. (C) Change ‘in its preference on’ to ‘in its preference to’. Wrong use of preposition.
8. (E)No error.
9. (D) Change ‘should like to acquire’ to ‘would like to acquire’.
10. (A) Change ‘if you absent;’ to if absent yourself’. Absent is used reflexively.
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Exercise 88
1. (A) Change ‘the’. Wrong use of definite article ‘the’.
2. (C) Change ‘are’ to is’. Wrong use of verb. Here, twently five kilometers is used as a unit, so singular verb is used.
3. (D) Change ‘the French’ to ‘french’. Do not use definite article ‘the’ before name of language.
4. (B) Change ‘to meet’ to ‘to meeting ‘. Wrong use of infinitive.
5. (D) Change ‘do you’ to ‘wont’ you’. It is a request.
6. (B) Change ‘a mason’ to ‘the mason’. Wrong use of article.
7. (B) Change ‘make from’ to ‘make out’. Wrong use of preposition or phrasal verb.
8. (B) Change ‘you will think’ to ‘will you think’. Proper use of inversion is necessary in question.
9. (D) No error.
10. (B) Change ‘reached there’ to ‘did we reached there’. Wrong use of inversion .
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Exercise 89
1. (A) It should be ‘it being a very cold day’. This is the problem of dangling participle.
2. (C) Change ‘be’ to ‘been’.
3. (A) Change ‘will insist’ to ‘insist’. Do not use ‘will after ‘if in such conditional type of sentence.
4. (D)Delete ‘had’. It should be ‘Subhash Chandra Bose died’.
5. (C) Change ‘is to ‘are’. Wrong use of singular verb. When two noun are joined with two the conjunction ‘and’ use plural verb.
6. (D)Delete ‘the’ before ‘most’. Wrong use of article ‘the’.
7. (D) Change ‘keep his their’. Pronoun ‘their’ refer to ‘those persons’ not ‘he’.
8. (E) No error.
9. (B) Change ‘are’ to ‘is’. Wrong use of plural verb with singular subject ‘box’.
10. (B)Delete ‘to’ after ‘inform’.
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Exercise 90
1. (D) Delete ‘he does not do it’ to ‘he did not it’. Wrong use of tense.
2. (B) Change ‘his best’ to ‘one’s best’. Wrong use of pronoun.
3. (A) Change ‘deprived from’ to ‘deprived of’. Wrong use of preposition.
4. (C) Change ‘througly ‘ to ‘through’.
5. (B)&(C) It should be: the villager told us ‘where the temple was’ and even led us to the spot.
6. (D) Change ‘than’ to ‘but’.
7. (E) No error.
8. (C) Change ‘to’ to ‘than’.
9. (B) Change ‘mange to play ‘ to ‘managed to play’. Wrong use of tense verb.
10. (C) Change ‘to reinstated’ to ‘be reinstated’.
MAGME SCHOOL OF BANKING
Class Room - Daily Dose Booklet
DDB NO: ENG 03
English Language
SPOTTING ERRORS – SET 03
Answers and Explanations
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