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Multiple Choice Questions

Forecasting for the year 2050 a UN report estimates that the percentage of urban residents...........

English Language and Interpesonal Skills (PCS) Error correction

Directions: In each of the questions, a sentence has been divided into four parts, one of which may contain an error. Identify that fragment and mark it as your answer. The words in bold are contextually and grammatically correct. Mark (E) if the sentence contains no error.

Forecasting for the year 2050, a UN report estimates that the percentage of urban residents in India would be 52.8 while Delhi would edge past Tokyo as the world’s more populous city by 2028.

Forecasting for the year 2050, a UN report estimates

that the percentage of urban residents in India

would be 52.8 while Delhi would edge past

Tokyo as the world’s more populous city by 2028.

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Explanation:

Fragment D is erroneous due to use of more (comparative) instead of most (superlative). When the comparison is between more than two items/things, we always use the superlative form.

Correct statement: Forecasting for the year 2050, a UN report estimates that the percentage of urban residents in India would be 52.8 while Delhi would edge past Tokyo as the world’s most populous city by 2028.

Hence, option D is correct.

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