WorksheetsTest Your Error Detection Skills
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the error in the sentence: 'She go to the store yesterday'?
She going to the store yesterday.
She goes to the store yesterday.
She gone to the store yesterday.
The correct sentence is 'She went to the store yesterday'.
Identify the logical fallacy in the argument: 'If we allow students to redo tests, soon they will expect to redo every assignment.'
Red herring fallacy
False dilemma fallacy
Ad hominem fallacy
Slippery slope fallacy
Find the grammatical mistake: 'Each of the players have their own locker.'
Each of the players has their own locker.
Each player have their own locker.
All of the players has their own lockers.
Each of the players have their locker.
What is the flaw in reasoning: 'All cats are mammals. My dog is a mammal. Therefore, my dog is a cat.'
The flaw is assuming that all mammals are cats.
The flaw is claiming all mammals are dogs.
The flaw is assuming all pets are cats.
The flaw is that not all cats are mammals.
Spot the punctuation error: 'Lets eat, Grandma!' vs 'Lets eat Grandma!'
The error is in 'Lets eat Grandma!' due to the missing comma.
The error is in 'Lets eat, Grandma!' because of the extra comma.
The error is in 'Lets eat, Grandma!' because of the misplaced apostrophe.
The error is in 'Lets eat Grandma!' due to incorrect capitalization.
Identify the incorrect word usage: 'He is more smarter than his brother.'
smarterer
more smarter
most smarter
smarter
What logical error is present: 'You either support this policy, or you don't care about the environment.'
Ad hominem
Straw man
Red herring
False dichotomy
Find the error in this statement: 'The committee have made their decision.'
The committee has made their decisions.
The committee has made its decision.
The committee have made its decisions.
The committee have made its decision.
What is the logical inconsistency: 'I always lie.'
The statement is a command.
The statement is always true.
The statement creates a paradox.
The statement is a question.
Identify the misplaced modifier: 'She almost drove her kids to school every day.'
'to school' is the misplaced modifier.
'her kids' is the misplaced modifier.
'almost' is the misplaced modifier.
'drove' is the misplaced modifier.
What is the error in this sentence: 'Neither the teacher nor the students was ready for the exam.'
Neither the teacher nor the students is ready for the exam.
The correct sentence is: 'Neither the teacher nor the students were ready for the exam.'
Neither the teacher nor the students are ready for the exam.
Neither the teacher nor the student were ready for the exam.
Spot the redundancy: 'He made a free gift to the charity.'
donation
gift aid
free
charitable contribution
What is the logical flaw: 'If we ban all cars, pollution will be eliminated.'
The logical flaw is circular reasoning.
The logical flaw is a false dilemma.
The logical flaw is hasty generalization.
The logical flaw is oversimplification.
Identify the subject-verb agreement error: 'The team are winning the game.'
The team wins the game.
The team are winning the match.
The team is winning the game.
The teams is winning the game.
What is the error in this analogy: 'A bird is to flying as a fish is to swimming.'
The comparison overlooks the differences in their environments.
The analogy suggests that birds and fish are the same.
The analogy incorrectly equates flying and swimming as similar actions.
It implies that flying is a learned behavior for fish.
Find the error in this sentence: 'The informations provided were helpful.'
The word 'helpful' is incorrect.
The word 'informations' is incorrect.
The sentence is grammatically correct.
The word 'provided' should be 'provide'
What is the logical fallacy in: 'You can't prove that ghosts don't exist, so they must be real.'
False dichotomy
Ad hominem attack
Appeal to ignorance
Slippery slope argument
Identify the error in this phrase: 'He is the bestest player on the team.'
He is the best player of the team.
He is the bestest player in the team.
The phrase should be 'He is the best player on the team.'
He is the better player on the team.
What is the flaw in reasoning: 'If it rains tomorrow, I will stay home. It is not raining, so I will go out.'
The flaw is in assuming that not raining now means it won't rain later.
The flaw is in assuming that the weather now determines future actions.
The flaw is in thinking that staying home is the only option when it rains.
The flaw is in believing that rain is the only reason to stay home.
Spot the error in this sentence: 'She has less friends than she used to.'
She has less friends than she used to be.
She has fewer friends than she used to.
She has less friends than she used to.
She has fewer friend than she used to.
