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891
Identify the segment containing an error: 'Avoid to make mistakes.'
A. Avoid
B. to make
C. mistakes
D. No error
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'Avoid' takes a gerund. Correct: 'Avoid making'.
892
Identify the segment containing an error: 'He denied to go.'
A. He
B. denied
C. to go
D. No error
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'Deny' takes a gerund. Correct: 'denied going'.
893
Identify the segment containing an error: 'She stopped to write.'
A. She
B. stopped
C. to write
D. No error
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'Stop to write' means she stopped moving in order to write. If the meaning is she ceased writing, it must be 'stopped writing'. Context usually implies the latter in error tests.
894
Identify the segment containing an error: 'I enjoy to play cricket.'
A. I
B. enjoy
C. to play
D. cricket
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'Enjoy' is followed by a gerund. Correct: 'enjoy playing'.
895
Identify the segment containing an error: 'He is absent in the class.'
A. He is
B. absent
C. in
D. the class
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One is absent 'from' a place. Correct: 'absent from the class'.
896
Identify the segment containing an error: 'The river has overflown its banks.'
A. The river
B. has
C. overflown
D. its banks
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'Overflown' is from 'fly'. The verb 'overflow' behaves like 'flow'. Past participle is 'overflowed'. Correct: 'has overflowed'.
897
Identify the segment containing an error: 'The hen has lain an egg.'
A. The hen
B. has
C. lain
D. an egg
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To produce an egg is 'lay' (transitive). Past participle is 'laid'. 'Lain' is past participle of 'lie'. Correct: 'has laid'.
898
Identify the segment containing an error: 'Lay down on the floor.'
A. Lay
B. down
C. on
D. the floor
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'Lay' is transitive (put something down). 'Lie' is intransitive (rest oneself). Correct: 'Lie down'.
899
Identify the segment containing an error: 'The prisoner was hung yesterday.'
A. The prisoner
B. was
C. hung
D. yesterday
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For execution, the past participle of 'hang' is 'hanged'. 'Hung' is for objects (e.g., hung a picture). Correct: 'was hanged'.
900
Identify the segment containing an error: 'I saw a dead body walking on the road.'
A. I saw
B. a dead body
C. walking
D. on the road
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'Dead body' implies a corpse, which cannot walk. Use 'corpse' if dead, or if walking, it was a person. This is a logical error. A better grammar error: 'I saw a bad dream'. (Done). Let's use: 'He was hung for murder.' Error 'hung'. Explanation: 'hanged'.
