Directions: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Without hardly (1) any delay, (2) the government machinery (3) began to provide succor (4) to quake victims. No error (5)