Spotting Errors
117 NDA English previous year questions (PYQs) from 14 papers, 2017 to 2026, with answers and worked solutions.
About this chapter
- Difficulty: 56 easy · 57 moderate · 4 hard.
- Most-asked subtopics: Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation (29), Subject-Verb Agreement (18), Tense and Verb Form (16).
- Updated 14 September 2026.
#1Articles, Determiners and Pronouns
- NDA · Sep 2026 · Q42Moderate
#2Subject-Verb Agreement
- Set · 10 questionsDirections : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
#3Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#4Tense and Verb Form
#5Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#6Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#7Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#8No Error (Correct Sentence)
- NDA · Apr 2020 · Q47Moderate
#9Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#10Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#11Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#12Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
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- Set · 10 questionsDirections for the following 10 (ten) items : In this section, look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus a 'No improvement' response will be signified by the letter (d).
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q21Moderate
#13Sentence Improvement
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q22Moderate
#14Sentence Improvement
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q23Moderate
#15Sentence Improvement
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q24Moderate
#16Sentence Improvement
#17Sentence Improvement
#18Sentence Improvement
#19Sentence Improvement
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q28Moderate
#20Sentence Improvement
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q29Moderate
#21Sentence Improvement
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q30Moderate
#22Sentence Improvement
- Set · 5 questionsDirections for the following 5 (five) items : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
#23Mixed Error Detection
#24Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q33Moderate
#25Mixed Error Detection
#26Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Apr 2017 · Q35Moderate
#27Mixed Error Detection
- Set · 5 questionsDirections : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
#28Mixed Error Detection
#29Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Sep 2017 · Q38Moderate
#30Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Sep 2017 · Q39Moderate
#31Mixed Error Detection
#32Mixed Error Detection
- Set · 5 questionsDirections : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
- NDA · Apr 2018 · Q21Moderate
#33Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Apr 2018 · Q22Moderate
#34Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Apr 2018 · Q23Moderate
#35Mixed Error Detection
#36Mixed Error Detection
- NDA · Apr 2018 · Q25Moderate
#37Mixed Error Detection
- Set · 5 questionsDirections : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
#38Subject-Verb Agreement
- NDA · Sep 2018 · Q2Moderate
#39Subject-Verb Agreement
- NDA · Sep 2018 · Q3Moderate
#40Subject-Verb Agreement
#41Subject-Verb Agreement
- NDA · Sep 2018 · Q5Moderate
#42Subject-Verb Agreement
- Set · 8 questionsDirections : Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
- NDA · Apr 2019 · Q1Moderate
#43Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
- NDA · Apr 2019 · Q2Moderate
#44Tense and Verb Form
#45No Error (Correct Sentence)
#46No Error (Correct Sentence)
#47Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
#48Tense and Verb Form
#49Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
- NDA · Apr 2019 · Q8Moderate
#50Word Choice, Prepositions and Punctuation
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