Attempt this Grammatical Error Spotting Question of 10 September 2022

Question of The Day10-09-2022

The given question contains one statement that is divided into five parts, out of which the first part is correct. There is some error in the three of the remaining four parts of the statement, while one part is correct. The correct part is your answer. In case all the parts are incorrect, the last option is your answer.

Compared to last year/ there are more women /aspirants that have applied for/ engineering entrance the year/ as per the statistics release.

Answer

Correct Answer : a ) there are more women

Explanation :

Let us examine the four phrases one by one to find out the correct phrase.

The error with phrase b is with the incorrect use of the pronoun, “that”. The pronoun is being used to refer to, “women aspirants”. As per rules of grammar, when referring to humans, the pronoun, “who” is used; ‘that” is used for all other entities. Hence, phrase b is incorrect.

Phrase c makes reference to some year. The use of article “the”, when referring to a particular or specific year is incorrect. Pronoun, “this or that (depending on the tense)” should be used instead of “the”. Hence, phrase c is incorrect.

Phrase d uses incorrect tense form of the verb, “released”. As per the context of the sentence, the fact that there are more women aspirants has been derived from the data already released; hence, use of “release” instead of “released” is incorrect.

Phrase a, however, is grammatically and idiomatically correct.

Hence, (a) is the correct answer.