Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Grammar: Idioms

Question:

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.

Two elderly ladies narrated an rather improbable story to the police.

Options:

Two elderly ladies

narrated an rather

to the police

improbable story

Correct Answer:

narrated an rather

Explanation:

The grammatical error in the sentence "Two elderly ladies narrated an rather improbable story to the police" is "an rather". The article "an" is used before words that start with a vowel sound. The word "rather" starts with the consonant sound "r", so the correct article is "a".

The correct sentence should be "Two elderly ladies narrated a rather improbable story to the police".