Idioms error
  • My Vote For Spot The Errors

SPOTTING ERRORS IN IDIOMS

Exercises - Wrong IDIOMS

Here are a few Idioms likely to be misused.
1. The girl was cut of in the bloom of her life.
ans : The girl was cut off during the bloom her life.
Answer
2. Who is carrying your business?
ans : Who is carrying on your business?.
Answer
3. He has fallen in bad company.
ans : He has fallen with bad company.
Answer
4. Two and two make four.
ans : Two and two makes four.
Answer
5. She looks on his mother.
ans : She looks after his mother.
Answer
6. She is calling him a bad name.
ans : She is calling him by bad names.
Answer
7. Plague carried many men.
ans : Plague carried off many men.
Answer
8. The plan has not yet got of the ground.
ans : The plan has not yet got off the ground.
Answer
9. The king put the prisoner in death.
ans : The king put the prisoner to death.
Answer
10. Please carry to the next page.
ans : Please carry over to the next page.
Answer
Missing Conjunctions
Common Errors

The Participle

The Adverb

The Pronoun

Learning Competency

Stressed and Unstressed
In English sentences content words are stressed while structural words are generally not.