Ramesh told me A that he had gone to B one of the CBI officers rsquo farmhouses C and stayed there a...........

English language (insurance) Error correction

Directions : Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is ‘e’). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Ramesh told me (A)/ that he had gone to (B)/ one of the CBI officers’ farmhouses (C)/ and stayed there all night (D). / No Error (E).

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Explanation:

When ‘one of’ is followed by two nouns, then we don’t tell the possession or ownership with the use of ‘s but with the help of ‘of’. The reason is that after ‘one of’ noun is plural, and thus, if two nouns are used, then it becomes more difficult to determine which of the noun is plural. In such cases, the expression starts giving double-meaning. The correct phrase would be ‘the farmhouse of one of the CBI officers’. Hence, there is an error in the part (C), and option (c) is the correct answer.