Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence may contain an error. You have to find that part of the sentence which contains the error. If there are no errors, choose ‘No error’ as your answer. I had been shocked when I heard that my business partner had left the country without informing me.

  1. i had been shocked

  2. when I heard that

  3. my business partner had left the country

  4. without informing me

  5. no error
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A Correct answer
Explanation

It should be ‘I was shocked’. The past perfect tense is not used to say that something happened in the past. It is used to suggest that one action had been completed before another action commenced.

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