Sujay R. Patel: Rules of English for competitive exams

Errors spotting Rules

As we know, Spotting errors is the most important topic to crack the competitive exams.So there are some rules,as given below, which will be helpful to you.

1^st Rule - There are some nouns which seems to be plural, but always take a singular verb.

For example, Scenery, Information, advice, innings, machinery, stationery, athletics, ethics, furniture, abuse, fuel, poetry, rice, gram, business, economics, physics, mathematics, issue, bidding, mischief, news, repair, classics, gallows etc.

2^nd Rule- There is some nouns which seem to be in singular form, but they are used as plural nouns and always take a plural verb.

For example, Cattle, police, company, gentry, vermin, peasantry, artillery, people etc.

3^rd Rule - There are some nouns which are always used in plural form and always take a plural verb.

For example, Trousers, spectacles, stockings, scissors, goods, shorts, measles, alms, premises, thanks, tidings, etc.

4^th Rule - Some nouns indicate length, measure, money, weight or number. When they are preceded by a numerical value, their form will remain unchanged.

For example, Year, head, pair, foot, dozen, meter, score, hundred, thousand, million.

5^th Rule- Collective nouns can be singular or plural. It depends on how they are used in a sentence.

For Example, Jury, orchestra, public, team, committee, government, audience, company, etc...

1) Singular collective nouns - The team has not come yet.

2) Plural collective nouns - The team have new t-shirts this year.

6^th Rule- When two singular nouns pointing out the same thing or person, are joined by using 'and', than the verb will be singular,

For example, Bread and butter make a good breakfast.

7^th Rule- When anything happened in the past and still continues in the present, the perfect continuous tense form of the verb should be used.

8^th Rule- Two or more adjectives showing the qualities of same man or thing, must be in the same degree.

9^th Rule - Some adjective always remain form of positive degree i.e. form of adjective which does not show a comparison.
For example, annual, absolute, circular, chief, entire, extreme, right, perfect, round, whole, universe, complete, etc.

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