Question
We should definitely (A)/talk to the speaker coming
today, (B)/as he will surely (C)/add fuel to the conversation (D). No error (E) Directions: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).Solution
Here, ‘add fuel to the conversation’ is inappropriate. If you add salt to a subject or conversation, you make it more interesting. So, the correct idiom is ‘add salt to the conversation’. We should definitely talk to the speaker coming today, as he will surely add salt to the conversation.
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