Directions The following sentence has been split into five segments Identify the segment that contai...........

English Language (SBI-PO) Error correction

Directions: The following sentence has been split into five segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

A COVID-19 pandemic is (A)/ an ongoing global pandemic (B)/ of coronavirus disease 2019 (C)/ caused by severe acute (D)/ respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (E)/.

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Explanation:

- In the first part of the given sentence, the noun 'COVID-19 pandemic' is a specified noun.
The definite article 'the' is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is specific or particular.
-'A' and 'an' are indefinite articles, which means that they refer to, or introduce, an unspecified noun.
We use 'a' before a consonant sound and we use 'an' before
a vowel sound.
- "No article" is used when we refer to general ideas, plurals, or uncountable nouns.
- Therefore, the definite article 'the' should be used in place of the indefinite article 'a'.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.