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In the question below, four sentences have been given. Out of four sentences, one sentence is error-free. Find out which of the following sentence is error-free. If all the given sentences have errors, then choose option ‘None is correct’ as the answer choice.

Options

A

He refrained to mention the incident, fearing it may reopen old wounds among the committee members.

B

Were the documents submitted on time, we could had avoided the penalty altogether.

C

Neither the director nor the team members was willing to take responsibility for the error.

D

The statistics regarding rural employment, which was gathered last year, are now outdated.

E

None is correct

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Correct Answer :

Option E

None is correct

None is correct

Solution :

To determine the correct option, let's analyze each of the given sentences step-by-step to identify any grammatical errors.

1. Analyzing Sentence 1:
"He refrained to mention the incident, fearing it may reopen old wounds among the committee members."
Error: The verb "refrain" is prepositonal and must be followed by the preposition "from" and a gerund (verb+ing), rather than an infinitive ("to mention").
Correction: "He refrained from mentioning the incident..."

2. Analyzing Sentence 2:
"Were the documents submitted on time, we could had avoided the penalty altogether."
Error: In a conditional structure, the modal auxiliary verb "could" must be followed by the base form of the auxiliary verb "have", not the past form "had".
Correction: "...we could have avoided the penalty altogether."

3. Analyzing Sentence 3:
"Neither the director nor the team members was willing to take responsibility for the error."
Error: When two subjects are joined by "neither... nor", the verb agrees with the subject closest to it. Here, the closer subject is the plural noun "team members", which requires the plural verb "were" instead of the singular "was".
Correction: "Neither the director nor the team members were willing..."

4. Analyzing Sentence 4:
"The statistics regarding rural employment, which was gathered last year, are now outdated."
Error: The relative pronoun "which" refers to the plural noun "statistics" in this context. Therefore, the relative clause verb should be plural ("were") rather than singular ("was").
Correction: "...which were gathered last year..."

Since all four sentences contain grammatical errors, the correct choice is indeed "None is correct".

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