Question
I. The civic body, which had to fill potholes on nearly
14,000 km of road by September 30, has been granted a reprieve. II. The loads from the hot mix plant was insufficient to fill potholes on interior roads. III. As a solution, the minister said that local contractors could be asked to fill potholes. Each question consists of three sentences and some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Read each sentence to find out the error in the sentence (s) and select the option that indicates the grammatically incorrect and inappropriate sentence (s). Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.ÂSolution
II-here, since ‘the loads’ is the subject, ‘was’ should be changed to ‘were’. The loads from the hot mix plant were insufficient to fill potholes on interior roads.
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