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Error Identification 2
Directions: The following question tests your ability to recognize grammar and usage errors. The sentence contains either a single error or no error at all. No sentence contains more than one error. The error, if there is one, is underlined and lettered. 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 choice (E). In choosing answer follow the requirements of standard written English.
The depletion of mineral resources, (A) the drying up of the oil fields, nuclear war, the destruction and contamination of the environment, food shortages, (B) economical panic, computers, robots, overproduction, backlogged inventories, trade friction, (C) violence by the unemployed - (D) these will all lead to uninhabited cities. (E) No error
There is error of diction in this part. Replace 'economical' with 'economic'. Although both 'economic' and 'economical' are adjectives, the former deals with material need the latter with prudence of management.