Types of Grammar Mistakes

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Students feel exciting to have the semester break soon."

• participial phrases

• participial adjective

• order of adjectives

• tense

Answer explanation

The underlined mistake 'exciting' is a participial adjective, which is an adjective formed from a verb. In this case, 'exciting' should be replaced with 'excited' to match the intended meaning.

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Traveling by bus is cheap than traveling by taxi."

• tense

• order of adjectives

• comparative form

• subject-verb agreement

Answer explanation

The underlined mistake 'cheap' is an incorrect comparative form. The correct form should be 'cheaper' instead of 'cheap'.

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"It is lucky to meet the cooperative team members, it is unlucky to meet the free-riders."

• comma splice

• run-on sentence

• participial adjective

• fragment

Answer explanation

The correct type of mistake in the sentence is a comma splice because it incorrectly joins two independent clauses with just a comma.

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Each student work very hard to prepare the continuous assessment throughout the whole semester."

• participial phrase

• tense

• subject-verb agreement

• none of the above

Answer explanation

The underlined mistake is a subject-verb agreement error because 'work' should be 'works' to match the singular subject 'Each student.'

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Traveling is the most popular leisure activity. During the long holidays."

• tense

• participial phrase

• fragment

• order of adjectives

Answer explanation

The correct type of mistake in the sentence is a fragment because 'During the long holidays' does not form a complete sentence on its own.

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Saving energy is the theme of the campaign last year; most participants completed the energy-saving goal and received the award."

• tense

• subject-verb agreement

• parallel structure

• participial adjective

Answer explanation

The correct type of mistake is tense because the verb 'is' should be in the past tense to match the rest of the sentence referring to the campaign last year.

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Sleep peacefully, the cat on the windowsill was calm."

• participial adjective

• tense

• subject-verb agreement

• participial phrase

Answer explanation

The underlined word 'Sleep' is a participial phrase, not a participial adjective, tense, or subject-verb agreement. 'Sleeping' should used to replace 'Sleep'. (verb + ing pattern)

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Running to catch the bus, the boy just lets the sliver eye-catching watch fell out of his bag."

• order of adjectives

• fragment

• tense

• participial adjectives

Answer explanation

The underlined mistake is related to the order of adjectives. The correct order should be ' eye-catching silver watch' instead of 'silver eye-catching watch'. (opinion first > "eye-catching" and then the fact >"silver").

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"The team are working together to complete the project on time."

• subject-verb agreement

• tense

• participial adjective

• comma splice

Answer explanation

The underlined mistake is related to subject-verb agreement, as 'team' is a singular noun and should be paired with the singular verb 'is' instead of 'are'.

What is the type of the underlined mistake?
"Under the noisy environment, no one can enjoy to read the notes."

• gerund and infinitives

• tense

• order of adjectives

• run-on sentence

Answer explanation

The underlined mistake is related to the incorrect use of the infinitive form after 'enjoy'. It should be 'enjoy reading' instead of 'enjoy to read', which involves the concept of gerunds and infinitives.