Post Utme Uniport 2019 English Question 35

Practice objective / multiple choice question 35 from the 2019 Post Utme Uniport English examination.

Post Utme Uniport 2019 English Objective / Multiple Choice
Question 35 POST_UTME_UNIPORT • 2019 • ENGLISH • objective

The passage below contains a sentence with a grammatical error. Identify the error and correct it: 'The company's profits have been increasing over the past year, despite the fact that the sales have been decreasing.'

Answer Options

A. The sentence is grammatically correct
B. The word 'increasing' should be replaced with 'decreasing'
Correct Answer C. The word 'despite' should be replaced with 'although'
D. The word 'profits' should be replaced with 'sales'
Correct Answer
C
Correct Option:
The word 'despite' should be replaced with 'although'

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This is Post Utme Uniport 2019 English Question 35. It is one of the objective questions from the 2019 Post Utme Uniport English examination.

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