Question
Download Solution PDFThe following sentence has been split into segments. One of them may contain an error. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
No one were / present when I / entered the hall.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe erroneous part is 'No one were'.
Key Points
- The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.
- Here, 'No one was' should be used instead of 'No one were'.
- ">The indefinite pronouns ">anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody "> are always singular and, therefore, require singular verbs.
- ">E.X.- No one is interested in the game.
- Thus, the correct answer is Option 2.
Note- We use no one, nobody, nothing and nowhere to refer to an absence of people, things or places. We use them with a singular verb
Correct Sentence: No one was present when I entered the hall.
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