If you want to know the news you can read a newspaper.
- (a)If you want
- (b)to know the news
- (c)you can read a newspaper.
- (d)No Error
Correct — D, 'No Error.' The sentence is a well-formed first conditional, and 'If you want to know the news, you can read a newspaper.' The 'if' clause uses the present simple 'want', the infinitive 'to know' is correct, 'the news' takes a singular sense, and the result clause 'you can read a newspaper' is grammatical, so no segment contains an error.
- (a)If you want — Error-free — a correctly formed opening to a conditional 'if' clause.
- (b)to know the news — Error-free — the infinitive 'to know' and the noun 'the news' are both correctly used.
- (c)you can read a newspaper. — Error-free — the result clause with 'can read a newspaper' is grammatical and idiomatic.
This is an error-spotting item where the sentence is a correctly formed first conditional, so the right response is 'No Error' — a reminder that some items are deliberately fault-free.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Spot the error: (a) If it rains / (b) tomorrow we / (c) will stay at home. / (d) No error
- (a)If it rains
- (b)tomorrow we
- (c)will stay at home.
- (d)No error
Answer(d) No error — this is a correctly formed first conditional with 'if + present, will + base verb'.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct first-conditional sentence.
- (a)If you will study, you pass.
- (b)If you study, you will pass.
- (c)If you studied, you will pass.
- (d)If you study, you passed.
Answer(b) If you study, you will pass — the 'if' clause takes the present simple and the result clause takes 'will'.