An LR parser will detect an error when it consults the parsing action table and finds an error entry. All empty entries in the action table are error entries. Errors are never detected by consulting the goto table. An LR parser will announce error as soon as there is no valid continuation for the scanned portion of the input. A canonical LR parser (LR(1) parser) will never make even a single reduction before announcing an error. The SLR and LALR parsers may make several reductions before announcing an error. But, all LR parsers (LR(1), LALR and SLR parsers) will never shift an erroneous input symbol onto the stack.