The following sentence has been divided into parts One of them may contain an error Select the part ...........

English Language (MTS) Error correction

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error.

Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

He got afflicted with the disease / when he was / a teenager.

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SSC MTS 15th July 2022 Shift-1

No error

He got afflicted with the disease

a teenager

when he was

Let’s break it down:

- Option 1: No error

- At first glance the sentence seems okay, but let’s look closer.

- Option 2: He got afflicted with the disease

- Here’s the thing: “got afflicted” isn’t natural English. People say “was afflicted” with a disease, not “got afflicted.”

- Example: “He was afflicted with the disease” is correct. “Got afflicted” is clunky and unidiomatic.

- Option 3: a teenager

- Totally fine. This correctly refers to the age when he got the disease.

- Option 4: when he was

- Also works. No error here.

The error is actually in Option 2: “He got afflicted with the disease”

- It should be “He was afflicted with the disease.”

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