Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been divided into four parts and marked 1, 2, 3 and 4. One of these contains a mistake in grammar idiom or syntax. Identify that part and mark it as the answer.

  1. Both in industry and agriculture

  2. the United States excelled all other countries

  3. till about a decade back, but now

  4. Japan has overtaken it in industry.
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Explanation

(1) Both in industry and in agriculture. The correlative conjunctions (both….and in this case) should be followed by the same grammatical format.The sentence should begin as...In both agriculture and..... 

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