Error Spotting

                                                                   Error Spotting

Error spotting is a systematic way of identifying and rectifying the mistakes in a sentence. It is commonly used while proofreading written documents. In error spotting, the candidate has to find the grammatical errors in the given paragraph using systematic rules that are already defined.

There are basically four kinds of sentences in English Grammar: declarative, exclamatory, imperative, and interrogatory. Identifying the type of sentence is necessary to know which specific part of speech needs correction.

There are eight parts of speech in English Grammar: interjection, adjective, pronoun, verb, noun, preposition, adverb, and conjunction. For finding the part of speech of any sentence, check the function and role of words in a sentence. 

• If the word is a naming word, like having a name of any place, person and so forth, then the sentence is a noun. 
• If the word is replacing the noun, then it is the pronoun. 
• If the word is showing an action, then it is the verb. 
• If the word depicts the quality of a noun, then it is an adjective. 
• If the word is modifying the verb and adjective, it is an adverb. 
• If the word connects the other words, then it is a conjunction. 
• If the word describes the relationship between noun and pronoun, then it is a proposition. 

AUTHOR

Dr L Suresh

Assistant Professor of English

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science

Coimbatore - 641020

Contact: 9944138137

e-mail ID: sureshenglit@rmv.ac.in