Post Utme Coal City University 2021 English Question 49

Practice objective / multiple choice question 49 from the 2021 Post Utme Coal City University English examination.

Post Utme Coal City University 2021 English Objective / Multiple Choice
Question 49 POST_UTME_COAL_CITY_UNIVERSITY • 2021 • ENGLISH • objective

The following sentence contains a grammatical error: 'The new employee, John, was given the task of designing a new product, which was to be launched next quarter.' Identify the error and correct it.

Answer Options

A. The subject-verb agreement error is in the phrase 'which was to be launched next quarter'.
B. The error is in the use of the passive voice.
Correct Answer C. The error is in the use of the phrase 'next quarter' instead of 'in the next quarter'.
D. The error is in the use of the phrase 'was given the task' instead of 'was assigned the task'.
Correct Answer
C
Correct Option:
The error is in the use of the phrase 'next quarter' instead of 'in the next quarter'.

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This is Post Utme Coal City University 2021 English Question 49. It is one of the objective questions from the 2021 Post Utme Coal City University English examination.

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