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From the given options, identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

Unable to pay the debts, the whole family is forced to spent several days in a jail.

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SSC GD 2018 Question Paper Hindi (11-Mar-2019) (Shift 3)
The correct answer is

is forced to spent

is forced to spent is correct.

The infinitive marker to is always followed by the base form of the verb, so it must be “is forced to spend”, not “to spent” (spent is the past form).

“Unable to pay the debts” is a correct introductory participial phrase, and “the whole family” correctly takes the singular verb is.

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