Directions: The following sentence tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. If the sentence contains an error, select the one underlined part that must be changed to make the sentence correct. If the sentence is correct, select option (E). While choosing answer, follow the requirements of standard written English.

Some one had said that (A) the English excelled all the other nations, the (B) Dutch being avaricious, the French, (C) a set of sycophants, the Germans drunk and gluttonous and the Spaniards (D) were proud and insolent. (E) No error