Question

Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in any underlined part.
(a) Not one of the hundreds (b) of sulking workers (c) were allowed to go near the factory.
A) (a)
B) (b)
C) (c)
D) no Error

Answer 1

Hint:Grammatical error is used to indicate that something relates to the grammar. Grammatical errors may be wrong spelling, wrong tenses etc.

Complete answer:
Let us individually analyse the answer to figure out the correct one
Option A) (a) – is an incorrect answer because ‘Not one of the hundreds’ is the correct sentence i.e. no errors found. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) (b) - is an incorrect answer because ‘of sulking workers’ is the correct sentence i.e. no errors found. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) (c) – is the correct answer because there is an error in the sentence ‘were allowed to go near the factory’ instead of ‘were’, ‘was’ should be the correct one. Here, the use of 'were' is incorrect: the singular "one" (of the hundreds) requires the verb 'was'. So, this option carries an error thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) No Error – this option is void because Option C has an error.

Hence, the correct answer is option ‘c’.

Note: There are some common grammatical errors that students do such as, subject – verb agreement error, sentence fragments, wrong word usage, misplaced modifier and etc. Here, in this question it is found that wrong word usage i.e. ‘were’ is used where this is wrong according to the formation of the sentence, so, ‘was’ is the correct word. Thus, Option C is the correct answer and Option A and B are grammatically correct options and option D is void because an error exists.