Multiple choice

Directions: Four parts of the sentence given below have been underlined. Identify the part having an error. If no part has an error, mark (5).

  1. When he

  2. returned to the office

  3. the visitors left

  4. and the peon was sitting idle

  5. No error
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C Correct answer
Explanation

 The visitors ‘had left’. When two events in the past are in sequence, the earlier event is put in the past perfect tense. The visitors had left before he returned to office.

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