Out of the four sentences given, three have spelling errors. Identify the sentence that has no spelling error.

Correct — A. manoeuvre is spelt exactly as printed — m-a-n-o-e-u-v-r-e — and nothing else in option (a) is misspelt.

Each remaining sentence carries one wrong word.

anamoly should be anomaly, spelt a-n-o-m-a-l-y.

entreprenuers should be entrepreneurs, ending -eur, not -uer.

litturgy should be liturgy, with a single t.

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  The computer's software detected an anamoly caused by a virus. — anamoly is not a word. The noun is anomaly — a-n-o-m-a-l-y, from Greek anomalos, uneven — and the misspelling swaps the a and the o on either side of the m.
• (c)
  What advice did he give to young entreprenuers? — entreprenuers flips the last two vowels. Entrepreneur ends in the French agent suffix -eur, the same ending as amateur and connoisseur.
• (d)
  A clergyman read the litturgy from the prayer-book. — litturgy doubles the t. Liturgy, from Greek leitourgia meaning public service, has one t and names a prescribed form of public worship.

Tier-I spelling items turn on a single letter cluster, never on the whole word. Learn the cluster and the word is permanently safe.

Two clusters do the work here. The French -eur ending (entrepreneur, amateur, connoisseur) is the one candidates habitually write as -uer.

The -oeu- run in manoeuvre looks wrong precisely because it is not phonetic, which is why it is worth printing as a distractor-shaped correct answer.

SSC keys British spelling, so manoeuvre is standard here and maneuver is the American variant.

Key facts

• Manoeuvre is the British spelling and maneuver the American one, and SSC keys the British form.
• Anomaly is spelt a-n-o-m-a-l-y and means a deviation from what is standard or expected.
• Entrepreneur ends in -eur, the French agent ending also seen in amateur and connoisseur.
• Liturgy has a single t and means a prescribed form of public worship.

Common traps

• Stopping at the first sentence that looks clean instead of checking all four.
• Rejecting manoeuvre because the American spelling maneuver is the more familiar one.

No directly related past PYQ was found.