In each of the following questions, four sentences have been given containing errors. Find out which of the following sentences, if any, is error-free. If all the given sentences have errors, then choose “All are incorrect”.
Correct Answer :
In the pre-Independence-era, newspapers were published as a national or public service.
Solution :
The correct option/answer is:
In the pre-Independence-era, newspapers were published as a national or public service.
Let us analyze each sentence to identify any grammatical errors:
1. "Attempts to use the rupee for invoicing and trading is not new to India."
Error: Subject-verb agreement error. The subject of the sentence is the plural noun "Attempts", not "rupee". Therefore, the plural auxiliary verb "are" should be used instead of the singular verb "is".
Correction: "Attempts to use the rupee for invoicing and trading are not new to India."
2. "This latest crisis come at a time when China-U.S. relations are already on edge."
Error: Subject-verb agreement error. The subject "This latest crisis" is singular, so it requires the third-person singular verb form "comes".
Correction: "This latest crisis comes at a time when China-U.S. relations are already on edge."
3. "Russia has stopped ground assaults but it continues to bomb Ukrainian cities at willingly."
Error: Idiomatic error. The correct phrase is "at will" (meaning at one's pleasure or discretion), not "at willingly".
Correction: "Russia has stopped ground assaults but it continues to bomb Ukrainian cities at will."
4. "In the pre-Independence-era, newspapers were published as a national or public service."
Analysis: This sentence is grammatically correct. The subject "newspapers" (plural) correctly agrees with the plural verb "were published", and the prepositional and modifier structures are used accurately.
Thus, the error-free sentence is "In the pre-Independence-era, newspapers were published as a national or public service."
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