Identify the sentences that are error free:
(A) Papa bought two dozen bananas for the Satyanarayan puja.
(B) Our cricket coach always emphasises on warming up before a match.
(C) The deer were drinking water at the pond behind the forest rest house.
(D) There is hardly no water left in the overhead tank.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) and (C) only
(A) Papa bought two dozen bananas for the Satyanarayan puja. — Correct.
- After a number, “dozen” keeps its singular form.
- So “two dozen bananas” is right, not “two dozens”.
(B) Our cricket coach always emphasises on warming up before a match. — Incorrect.
- The verb “emphasise” takes its object directly, with no “on”.
- Correct form: Our cricket coach always emphasises warming up before a match.
(C) The deer were drinking water at the pond behind the forest rest house. — Correct.
- “Deer” has the same form for one animal and for many.
- Here “were” shows that there were several deer, so the sentence is right.
(D) There is hardly no water left in the overhead tank. — Incorrect.
- “Hardly” already has a negative meaning, so it is not used with another negative like “no”.
- With a noun, “hardly” is followed by “any”.
- Correct form: There is hardly any water left in the overhead tank.