The Question

Q32(B) says "Rectify the errors in the following sentences and rewrite them" and gives two sentences, one mark each. It is the alternative to Q32(A), question tags and wh-questions (chapter 20).

In 2025 the two sentences were:

i) Childrens love to eat ice-cream everyday. ii) Sannidhi goes for a walk on the Morning everyday.

How to answer. Rewrite the whole sentence correctly. Do not explain the mistake, do not underline it, and do not change anything that was already right. A sentence may carry more than one error, so read it to the end before you write.

Where the errors come from. The board draws on a small set of familiar traps: plural forms, capital letters, prepositions, every day against everyday, articles, agreement, tense and spelling. The tables that follow cover almost every sentence the paper has set.

[Exam Tip] — Marks are given for the corrected sentence as a whole, so a sentence in which you fix one error but introduce another earns nothing. Copy carefully.

Nouns: Plurals and Uncountables

Wrong Right Rule
Childrens love ice-cream. Children love ice-cream. Children is already plural; never add -s.
Many peoples were waiting. Many people were waiting. People is plural. Peoples means nations.
She gave me two advices. She gave me two pieces of advice. Advice is uncountable.
He gathered many informations. He gathered much information. Uncountable.
The furnitures are new. The furniture is new. Uncountable, so a singular verb.
I have two luggages. I have two pieces of luggage. Uncountable.
Her hairs are black. Her hair is black. Uncountable when it means all the hair.
The news are good. The news is good. Singular in spite of the -s.
He bought two dozens eggs. He bought two dozen eggs. Dozen, hundred, thousand stay singular after a number.
The womens of the wada walked miles. The women of the wada walked miles. Irregular plural.
My both feets were aching. Both my feet were aching. Irregular plural, and both comes first.
He gave me many equipments. He gave me much equipment. Uncountable.

Words with no plural in -s: information, advice, furniture, luggage, baggage, equipment, machinery, scenery, poetry, music, bread, water, work, homework, news.

Irregular plurals to remember: child - children, woman - women, man - men, foot - feet, tooth - teeth, mouse - mice, ox - oxen, datum - data, crisis - crises.

Capitals, "Every day" and Spelling

Capital letters. Use a capital for the first word of a sentence, for names of people, places, days, months, festivals, languages, nationalities, books and organisations. Do not capitalise an ordinary common noun in the middle of a sentence.

Wrong Right
Sannidhi goes for a walk in the Morning. … in the morning.
We study english and kannada. We study English and Kannada.
She will come on monday in january. … on Monday in January.
the women of pudukkottai learnt cycling. The women of Pudukkottai learnt cycling.

"Every day" or "everyday"?

Form Use Example
every day (two words) an adverb phrase meaning daily She hires a cycle every day.
everyday (one word) an adjective before a noun meaning ordinary Fetching water was an everyday chore.

The same rule applies to some time / sometime / sometimes, may be / maybe, a lot of (always two words) and thank you (two words).

Frequent spelling slips: recieve → receive, seperate → separate, occured → occurred, begining → beginning, definately → definitely, its / it's (its = belonging to it, it's = it is), their / there / they're, then / than.

Prepositions, Articles, Agreement and Tense

Prepositions of time and place

Use With Example
in parts of the day, months, years, seasons, places in the morning, in June, in 1985, in Pudukkottai
on days and dates on Monday, on 16 July 1985
at clock time, night, small points at 5 o'clock, at night, at the well
for a length of time for two years
since a point in time since 1992

Verbs that take a fixed preposition, or none

Wrong Right
They discussed about the problem. They discussed the problem.
We reached at the village late. We reached the village late.
She married with a teacher. She married a teacher. / She was married to a teacher.
Listen the song carefully. Listen to the song carefully.
He is good in mathematics. He is good at mathematics.
I am waiting your reply. I am waiting for your reply.
She entered into the booth. She entered the booth.
He requested for a robe. He requested a robe.

Articles, agreement and tense

Wrong Right Rule
He is honest man. He is an honest man. A singular countable noun needs an article.
She is a M.A. graduate. She is an M.A. graduate. The sound decides.
One of my friend is a dancer. One of my friends is a dancer. One of + plural noun.
He don't know the answer. He doesn't know the answer. Third person singular.
The women was trained by Arivoli. The women were trained by Arivoli. Plural subject.
Yesterday she goes to the canal. Yesterday she went to the canal. Yesterday needs the past.
He did not came to the booth. He did not come to the booth. After did, the base form.
She is more better than him. She is better than he is. No double comparative.
I didn't tell nothing to anyone. I didn't tell anything to anyone. No double negative.
Myself Sannidhi. I am Sannidhi. Myself is not a subject.

The 2025 Items, Solved, and a Method

Item (i)

Childrens love to eat ice-cream everyday.

Two errors: Childrens is a double plural, and everyday should be two words because it is used as an adverb.

Children love to eat ice-cream every day.

Item (ii)

Sannidhi goes for a walk on the Morning everyday.

Three errors: the preposition should be in for a part of the day, Morning should not have a capital letter, and everyday should again be two words.

Sannidhi goes for a walk in the morning every day.

A method for the exam

  1. Read the sentence once, listening for what sounds wrong.
  2. Check the nouns: is a plural doubled (childrens)? is an uncountable made plural (informations)?
  3. Check the capital letters: is a common noun capitalised, or a proper noun not?
  4. Check the prepositions: in / on / at with time, and the verbs that take none (discuss, reach, marry, enter, request).
  5. Check the verb: does it agree with the subject, and does its tense match the time words?
  6. Look for everyday, alot, its / it's and other one-word slips.
  7. Rewrite the whole sentence and read it once more.

[Exam Tip] — Two of these sentences appear every year and the traps repeat. If you learn the four noun rules, the in / on / at table and every day against everyday, you have covered most of what has been set.