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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.

(1) Ravi walked / (2) up to a Principal’s cabin / (3) but could not meet him. / (4) No error

This question was previously asked in
SSC Stenographer 2023 Previous Year Paper (13-Oct-2023) (Shift 3)
The correct answer is

2

The correct answer is 'Option 4' i.e. '2'.

 Key Points

  • The part of the sentence "up to a Principal’s cabin" contains an error.
  • In English, when we talk about a specific person's role or a job title we use the definite article 'the', not an indefinite article 'a'.
  • The correct phrase would be "up to the Principal's cabin" because the cabin is related to one specific principal.
  • Furthermore, the use of the definite article 'the' emphasizes that it is 'the' cabin of 'the' principal that he walked up to.
  • Hence, the correct answer is part '2'. "up to a Principal cabin"

Therefore, the correct sentence is "Ravi walked up to the Principal’s cabin but could not meet him."

  Additional Information

  •  The other parts of the sentence are grammatically correct.
    • The sentence is in the past form. 'Ravi' is the subject and 'walked' is the verb. Both are correct.
    • After the modal 'could' the base form of the verb 'meet' is correct.
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