Question
Pancakes literally sell like hotbakes during the Holy
Month of Ramadan. In each question below, a sentence is given with an idiom/phrase printed in bold type. That part may contain a grammatical error. Each sentence is followed by four alternatives. Find out which option should replace the phrase/idiom given in bold to correct the error, if there is any, and to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and ‘No correction is required’, mark 5) as the answer.Solution
The idiom ‘sell like hotcakes’ means ‘to be bought quickly and in large numbers’. Pancakes literally sell like hotcakes during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
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