Question

While using the straw in power plants has often been touted as a solution, there is no well-oiled system at place to transporting straw from field to plant.

Q: Answer-While using the straw in power plants has often been touted as a solution, there is no well-oiled sy...

At place should be corrected to in place, which is the appropriate phrase for indicating that something is ready or functioning. To transporting should be changed to to transport because after to, the base form of the verb transport is required, not the gerund form transporting. There is is correct because system is singular. While using the straw in power plants has often been touted as a solution, there is no well-oiled system in place to transport straw from field to plant.

In the question given below, a sentence is given with a part of it printed in bold type. That part may contain a grammatical error. Each sentence is followed by phrases 1), 2), 3) and 4). Find out which phrase should replace the phrase given in bold to correct the error, if there is any, and to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct.

A there is no well-oiled system in place to transport

B there are no well-oiled system in place to transport

C there seems no well-oiled system in place to transporting

D there are no well-oiled system in place to transporting

E No correction required

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