This document contains a series of practice exercises identifying and correcting errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and parts of speech. There are multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions across topics like articles, prepositions, tenses, countable/uncountable nouns, pronouns, subject-verb agreement, and commonly misspelled words. The purpose is to help students improve their mastery of foundational English language rules and conventions through targeted practice.

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ERROR IDENTIFICATION
Correct the underlined errors and write the correct words/phrases in the space provided.
Practice 1 (Articles)
1. My father has a big eyes and a big mouth. _____________
2. The Mr. Lee is here for the meeting. _____________
3. They are standing under sun. _____________
4. John is tallest boy in the class. _____________
5. We usually have the breakfast at home. _____________
6. The Penang is an island. _____________
7. Her son is studying in an university in Johor Bahru. _____________
8. He is manager of the big company. _____________
9. She needs to borrow a umbrella. _____________
10. They are looking for survivors in South China Sea. _____________
Practice 2 (Prepositions)
1. She thanked to her friend for helping her. _____________
2. They will start their work at here. _____________
3. Alice goes to school at the morning. _____________
4. We do not go to school at Saturdays. _____________
5. Kassim and Ramu were standing among two cars. _____________
6. The students visited to the factory yesterday. _____________
7. She is not good in English. _____________
8. We did not discuss about the matter in the meeting. _____________
9. Lily goe s to school by foot. _____________
10. The patient died with cancer. _____________
Practice 3 (Tenses)
1. She has received the letter last week. _____________
2. They drank apple juice and eat cakes. _____________
3. The phone rung while I was reading the newspaper. _____________
4. If I were you, I will see him. _____________
5. Have they finish their homework? _____________
6. When my father was doing his work, we will not disturb him._____________
7. When I reached her house, she already left. _____________
8. I liking reading novels. _____________
9. We are painting our house yesterday. _____________
10. She lived here since 1995. _____________

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Practice 4 (Participles and Gerunds)
1. The students felt boring and sleepy. _____________
2. Elisa saw him tried to open the window. _____________
3. She enjoys sing very much. _____________
4. The girls were chatted in the living room. _____________
5. Read has always been my hobby since I was a child. _____________
6. I do not remember see you here. _____________
7. My grandmother is very good at cooked. _____________
8. Do you mind wait while I finish this? _____________
9. She is interesting in gardening. _____________
10. After complete his work, he went home. _____________
Practice 5 (Countable and Uncountable Nouns)
1. We have a lot of works to do. _____________
2. One people was injured in the accident. _____________
3. Every students has a dictionary. _____________
4. They have a lot of furnitures in the room. _____________
5. One of the boys came late to school. _____________
6. Sam bought two car last week. _____________
7. The teacher gave a lot of informations to the students. _____________
8. Her baby sister has a lot of hairs. _____________
9. He sold three sheeps to the man. _____________
10. Mr. and Mrs. Singh have three child. _____________
Practice 6 (Subject-Verb Agreement)
1. My mother do not like people who lie. _____________
2. He also have a pair of brown eyes. _____________
3. Although he is fifty years old, he look young. _____________
4. Bread and butter are my favourite breakfast. _____________
5. Each of her sisters have a university degree. _____________
6. Either Rafidah or I are going to the mall. _____________
7. All the furniture in this room are new. _____________
8. Everyone love ice-cream. _____________
9. Joan and Lisa helps the teacher with the preparation. _____________
10. James, as well as his girlfriend, are going for a holiday. _____________

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Practice 7 (Pronouns)
1. Your are late. _____________
2. The teacher scolded his. _____________
3. These are mine pens. _____________
4. We prepare the meal ourself. _____________
5. They finish the work theirselves. _____________
6. The babysitter which looks after our baby is our neighbour. _____________
7. The dog is sleeping in it’s kennel. _____________
8. Their won the competition. _____________
9. Our parents gave we a treat. _____________
10. He did it hisself. _____________
General Practice 1
Identify and underline the errors. Write the correct words/phrases in the space provided.
1. They have the meeting at the afternoon. _____________
2. There were no time to shout for help. _____________
3. The men were kind because he knew what it was to be
homeless. _____________
4. Taylor Swift is an famous singer. _____________
5. She gave a loud scream and fall over the chair. _____________
6. I saw a man climbed over the gate. _____________
7. One of my mother’s ring was stolen. _____________
8. I reached at Jalan Abdullah. _____________
9. There is a lot of differences between them. _____________
10. We completed our assignments ourself. _____________
General Practice 2
In each of the sentences below, four parts are underlined and marked A,B,C,D. One of
these parts contains an error. Decide whether it is A,B,C or D.
1. After a few minutes, I look up and saw that it was getting dark.
A B C D
2. Would you mind go with me to the clinic?
A B C D
3. Puan Zainab bought a lot of furnitures at the sale for her new house.
A B C D
4. He jumped down after shouted a warning to those standing below.
A B C D
5. Adeline reached in London after flying for almost 22 hours.
A B C D
6. Go to the movies is a form of recreation.
A B C D

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7. Please inform yours friend that his design is being considered.
A B C D
8. To my opinion, smoking is more harmful than beneficial.
A B C D
9. Have you wrote a reply to your grandmother to thank her for the present?
A B C D
10. She has a cat who is not afraid of dogs but is terrified of mice!
A B C D
General Practice 3
Identify and correct the errors found in the sentences. Rewrite the corrected sentences.
1. My mother is teacher.
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2. This shirts are trendy and colourful.
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3. We take a lot of luggages when we travel.
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4. Stop to eat so noisily!
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5. This piece of pottery is different to the other pieces.
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6. Our rich neighbour have three large cars.
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7. They borrow the book from the library two days ago.
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8. I have two sister-in-laws.
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9. Mother did not cooked dinner last night.
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10. The receptionist which answered the call was polite.
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General Practice 4
Identify and correct the mistakes made in this essay.
Little Matthew
There was a old woman which lived alone in a banglo house in Kampung Seni.
Her husband was died since three year ago. She was lonely becase she did not has a
children. Although she was rich but she was lonely.
One morning, she heard a knock on her door. When she opened the door, she
sees a basket at her doorstep. Had a baby boy inside the basket. He was only a three
months old baby. She pitied the baby. So, she take him inside. She changed him and
feed him. As she does not know the baby’s name, she was named him Little Matthew.
She waited for a few day for Little Matthew’s parents to come to claimed him but they did
not came.
After a few day, she went to the police station with Matthew. She talked with the
police. The police told the old women that they had to put Little Matthew under the
custody of the Welfare Department. She reluctantly let him go.
The old woman miss Little Matthew. So, she went to the Welfare Department to
visited him. When she saw him, she was so happy that she decided to adopt Little
Matthew. Her would not be lonely anymore.
General Practice 5
These are words most commonly misspelled by students. Go through this list and
underline the correct words.
1. goverment government 16. belive believe
2. business bussiness 17. thief theif
3. immediately imediately 18. disappointed dissapointed
4. kindergarden kindergarten 19. bas bus
5. suprise surprise 20. success sucess
6. furthermore futhermore 21. nowadays nowdays
7. independant independent 22. opportunity opurtunity
8. occasion ocassion 23. embarass embarrass
9. environment enviroment 24. accommodation accomodation
10. professor profesor 25. co-curricular co-curicular
11. fourty forty 26. sudenly suddenly
12. occurred occured 27. because becouse
13. dicipline discipline 28. ambulans ambulance
14. continuous continous 29. acident accident
15. writting writing 30. themselves themself