Of all the players it was Ramesh who plan his tactics with utmost care.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Sentence Error Identification
This question requires identifying a grammatical error within a sentence. We need to examine the underlined parts presented as options.
Clause Error: 'who plan his tactics'
The sentence is: "Of all the players it was Ramesh who plan his tactics with utmost care."
Option (c) is the phrase "who plan his tactics". This phrase involves a relative clause modifying "Ramesh".
- The relative pronoun "who" refers to "Ramesh".
- "Ramesh" is a singular noun.
Subject-Verb Agreement Correction
Grammar rule dictates that the verb must agree with its subject in number.
Since the subject ("Ramesh", represented by "who") is singular, the verb in the present tense should also be singular. The singular form of the verb "plan" is "plans".
The sentence uses "plan", which is the plural or non-third-person singular form.
The corrected phrase should be: "who plans his tactics".
Thus, the error lies in option (c).
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