My college A is besides B the lake C No error D ........

English Language (Defence) Error correction

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (A), (B) and (C). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (A) or (B) or (C). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (D).

My college \(A) is besides \(B) the lake.\(C) No error. \(D)

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Explanation:

Use of ‘besides’ is incorrect. Besides means ‘except’ or ‘in addition to’. The correct usage should have been:
My college is beside the lake. Beside is a preposition which means ‘next to’.