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The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error.
Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

Mrs. Meera and family / received his letter / a week ago.

Options

A

No error

B

received his letter

C

Mrs. Meera and family

D

a week ago

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Correct Answer :

Option B

received his letter

Solution :

The correct answer is received his letter.

Step-by-Step Explanation:

1. Analyze the Subject of the Sentence:
The subject of the sentence is "Mrs. Meera and family". This subject is compound/plural because it includes both Mrs. Meera and her family.

2. Identify Pronoun Agreement:
The pronoun used in the second part of the sentence is "his" ("received his letter"). However, a third-person plural subject (or collective entity involving multiple people receiving their own correspondence, or in reference to Mrs. Meera and her family) requires a matching plural possessive pronoun, which is "their".

3. Corrected Sentence:
"Mrs. Meera and family received their letter a week ago."

Therefore, the part containing the grammatical error is "received his letter".

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