I hoped to immediately declare the fact A in front of all the people present but it was B already kn...........

English ( Master) Adjective

Directions: The following sentence is divided into 4 parts. Among them, one or more parts may have a grammatical or contextual error. Kindly choose, from the given options, the set of parts that do not have an error and are grammatically and contextually correct.

I hoped to immediately declare the fact (A) / in front of all the people present but it was (B) / already known by everybody (C) / that the earth moved round the sun. (D)

B and C

Only B

B, C and D

A, B and C

No error

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Explanation:

Coming to the first fragment of the sentence, it is not correct since the adverb should never come between the infinitive ‘to’ and the verbal part of the infinitive and should always be placed after the verb. Here, to immediately declare is the wrong usage and it should have been to declare immediately.

Coming to Fragment C, the agent that comes after known is not correctly used in the given sentence as it should have been to in place of by used in the sentence.

Another error lies in fragment D of the sentence. If we are talking about some universal truth it should always be in the present indefinite tense, wherever it is used. It will never change with respect to any context in which it is used. Here, it is wrong to use the earth moved round the sun. It should have been the earth moves round the sun.

Only part B has no error in it and therefore no correction is required in that part of the sentence whereas A, C and D have errors.

This makes option B the correct choice among the given options.