Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence is divided into four parts and is numbered (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). Select the part which has the error. If there is no error, choose no. 5.

The people (1)/ in my office (2)/ are smarter (3)/ than other offices (4)./ No error (5).

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4

  5. 5
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; here is the error of parallelism. The subject 'people' is to be compared with people, and not 'offices'. So, the correction reads 'than those in other offices'.

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