In the following question, four sentences are given. Find out which of the given sentences, if any, is error-free. If all the given sentences contain errors, choose "All are incorrect".
Correct Answer :
During the post-war period, local daily publications were established as a vital community service.
Solution :
The correct answer is "During the post-war period, local daily publications were established as a vital community service."
Let's analyze each sentence step-by-step to determine which one is error-free:
1. "During the post-war period, local daily publications were established as a vital community service."
- Correct: This sentence is grammatically correct. The plural subject "local daily publications" properly agrees with the plural past-tense verb "were established", and all modifiers are correctly placed.
2. "This recent conflict have emerged during a period when international trade relations were already delicate."
- Incorrect: There is a subject-verb agreement error. The subject "This recent conflict" is singular, so it requires the singular auxiliary verb "has" rather than the plural "have".
- Corrected sentence: "This recent conflict has emerged during a period when international trade relations were already delicate."
3. "Efforts to regulate the artificial intelligence sector is not unprecedented in modern governance."
- Incorrect: There is a subject-verb agreement error. The main subject of the sentence is plural ("Efforts"), so it requires the plural verb "are" instead of the singular "is".
- Corrected sentence: "Efforts to regulate the artificial intelligence sector are not unprecedented in modern governance."
4. "The government has paused industrial expansions but continues to monitor corporate activities at randomly."
- Incorrect: The phrase "at randomly" is an incorrect usage of idiom/adverb. It should either be the prepositional phrase "at random" or simply the adverb "randomly".
- Corrected sentence: "The government has paused industrial expansions but continues to monitor corporate activities at random."
Therefore, the first sentence is the only error-free sentence among the given choices.
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