Question
Though daily infections had gradually dipped (A)/at
the start from the year, the relief was short-lived (B)/as the Delta variant drive (C)/an exponential rise in daily cases, (D)/resulting of the second wave of COVID-19 infections (E). In each of the questions, a sentence is divided into five parts namely A, B, C, D and E. In which one of the parts is given in bold and is grammatically and contextually correct. You have to identify which fragment, apart from the bold one, is correct in terms of grammar and usage.Solution
1- ‘from’ should be replaced with ‘of’. 2- ‘drive’ should be replaced with ‘drove’, as the past tense should be used. 4- the correct preposition after ‘resulting’ is ‘in’, not ‘of’. Though daily infections had gradually dipped at the start of the year, the relief was short-lived as the Delta variant drove an exponential rise in daily cases, resulting in the second wave of COVID-19 infections.
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