Project ForgeIn the following sentence certain parts are underlined and marked P, Q, and R. One of the parts may contain certain error or may not be acceptable in standard written communication. Select the part containing an error. Choose D as your answer if there is no error.
The student corrected [all the errors]-P that [the instructor marked]-Q on [the answer book]-R.
- AP
- Q
- CR
- DNo Error
Explanation
The instructor's marking happened BEFORE the student's correcting (a past action preceding another past action), which standard written English marks with the past perfect tense: 'the instructor HAD marked'. Using the simple past 'marked' here fails to show that sequencing, making part Q the error.
Source: GATE ME 2015 (Session 1) (2015)
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