She told her teacher that she a could not be able to attend the class the b am previous day because ...........

English Language (Defence) Error correction

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Directions for the following 20 (twenty) items : Each question in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labeled (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).

She told her teacher that she \(a) could not be able to attend the class the \(b)am previous day because of heavy rains. \(c) No error.\(d)

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Explanation:

The phrase ‘could not be able’ needs to be replaced with ‘was not able’ to make the sentence correct. As the action has already taken place so use of modal is incorrect.
Thus, the correct sentence would be, ‘She told her teacher that she was not able to attend the class the previous day because of heavy rains’.