Grammatical and Tech Test

What is the grammatical error of the following sentence?

You’ve got a whole week to yourself and you can read to your heart’s contents.

• You’ve got a 

• whole week to

• yourself and you can

• read to your heart’s contents

• No error

Answer explanation

Explanation:

The grammatical error of the sentence is in option D. The meaning of a few nouns in plural form is different from their meaning in the singular form. ‘Content’ is such a word.

In the given sentence, ‘content’ means “a state of satisfaction”. However, ‘contents’ mean ‘the things that are held or included in something’. Here, the state of being satisfied is mentioned (& ‘heart’ mentioned in the sentence also verifies that.) Thus, it should be ‘heart’s content’ to make the sentence grammatically correct.

Correct sentence: You’ve got a whole week to yourself and you can read to your heart’s content.

What is the location of the backspace Button?

Which of the following is hardware? 

• Monitor

• Program

• Operating System

• Microsoft Office

What is the grammatical error of the following sentence?

I tried taking tablets for the headache, but they did not have any affect.

• for the headache

• have any affect

• but they did not

• tried taking tablets

Answer explanation

Explanation:

The grammatical error of the sentence is in option B. “Affect” is a verb that means to have an influence on someone or something or to cause a change in someone or something. For example,

Both buildings were badly affected by the fire. The divorce affected every aspect of her life.

“Effect” is a noun that means the result of a particular influence. 

For example: I think I’m suffering from the effects of too little sleep.

In the given sentence, a noun is needed in place of a verb, and the verb is already mentioned. In order to make the sentence correct, replace “affect” with “effect”.

Correct sentence: ‘I tried taking tablets for the headache, but they did not have any effect.’

What is the grammatical error of the following sentence?

The boxes were heavy, so carrying two of them was too much weighted to handle.

• so carrying two of

• them was too

• much weighted to handle

• boxes were heavy

Answer explanation

Explanation:

The grammatical error of the sentence is in option C. The structures for much too and too much are:-

“Too much + noun”. For example, Too much pain, too much carelessness, too much insincerity, etc.

“Much too + adjective”. For example, Much too painful, much too careless, much too wicked, etc.

“Weighted” is an adjective, and the correct structure is “too much + weight”. In order to make the sentence correct, replace “weighted” with “weight”.

Correct sentence: ‘The boxes were heavy, so carrying two of them was too much weight to handle.’

What is the grammatical error of the following sentence?

We padded the seat of the chair with camel hairs to make it soft.

• We padded the

• seat of the chair

• with camel hairs

• to make it soft

• No error

Answer explanation

Explanation:

The grammatical error of the sentence is in option C. Some nouns are generally uncountable nouns. ‘Hair’ is one of them. So, it is generally considered singular.

Thus, replace “hairs” with “hair” to make the sentence grammatically correct.

Correct sentence: We padded the seat of the chair with camel hair to make it soft.

An example of an e-mail address is...

• Www.facebook.com

• Jeandoe.gmail.com

• training.com

• [e-mail]

Name the application used for creating presentations ___

• MS Access

• MS Word

• MS Excel

• MS Powerpoint

What is the grammatical error of the following sentence?

We had taken great pain to check the structural soundness of the building.

• We had taken

• great pain to

• check the structural

• soundness of the building

• No error

Answer explanation

Explanation:

The grammatical error of the sentence is in option B. The meaning of a few nouns in plural form is different from their meaning in the singular form. ‘Pain’ is such a word. ‘Pains’ means ‘great care or trouble’ while ‘pain’ means highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury.

Here, someone had been involved in trouble or we can say, someone had taken a difficult responsibility to check something. Thus, replace “pain” with “pains” to make the sentence grammatically correct.

Correct sentence: We had taken great pains to check the structural soundness of the coachwork.

Which key would you press to open a program such a microsoft word when there are no icons on the desktop??

Answer explanation

Some programs do not have icons on the desktop of a computer, by pressing the "Windows" key this will give you access to the main windows menu and access to all the programs installed on the computer.