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.
It was a surprising / to receive the gift/ from my brother.

To find the part of the sentence that contains an error, let us analyze the grammatical structure of the sentence step-by-step:

1. The sentence is: "It was a surprising / to receive the gift/ from my brother."
2. Let's look at the first part: "It was a surprising". Here, "surprising" is an adjective. The indefinite article "a" must precede a singular countable noun (or a noun phrase starting with an adjective, such as "a surprising event" or "a surprise"). Using "a" directly before the adjective "surprising" without a following noun is grammatically incorrect.
3. To correct this part, we can either:
- Replace the adjective "surprising" with the noun "surprise", making it: "It was a surprise..."
- Add a noun after the adjective, making it: "It was a surprising event/experience..."
- Remove the article "a" if we want to use the adjective to describe a situation, though in this structure, using the noun "surprise" is the most natural fit: "It was a surprise to receive the gift from my brother."
4. The remaining parts, "to receive the gift" and "from my brother", are grammatically correct and fit together seamlessly.

Therefore, the error lies in the segment "It was a surprising".

The correct answer is It was a surprising.