Multiple choice

Directions: A sentence has been divided into four parts lettered (a), (b), (c), and (d). Find the part of sentence with an an error and mark it as your anwer. If there as no error mark (d) as your answer.

Six years before (a)/ Alice, a French woman, left her job (b)/ and accompained her husband to India. (c)/ No error (d)

  1. (a)

  2. (b)

  3. (c)

  4. (d)
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Before means earlier than the time or event mentioned... but in the given sentence, no event or time is mentioned after before. Ago tells us how long before the present time something happened. It tells us when and gives us a time or a date. So the correct phrase should be 'Six years ago....' 

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