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) The police couldn’t control (2) the mob so (3) troops were (4) called on. (5) No error

  1. 1

  2. 2

  3. 3

  4. 4

  5. 5
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D Correct answer
Explanation

 Change ‘called on’ to ‘called out’ to correct the error of phrasal verb. ‘Call on’ is to pay a short visit whereas called out is ‘to summon’. Hence, option 4 is correct.

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