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    Question

    Given the Chinese Communist Party’s unprecedented

    intervention (A)/ in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, (B)/the authors expected the (C)/ territories freedom score to decline notably (D)/ in future editions of the index(E). Directions: In each of the questions, a sentence is divided into five parts A, B, C, D and E in which one or two of the parts have some grammatical or contextual errors in them. You have to identify which pair among the given alternatives represents the parts that contain those errors. If none of the parts has any error, then mark option 5, i.e., ‘No error’ as your answer.
    A A & B Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B B only Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C C & D Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D E only Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    C - Since the action is supposed to happen in the future, present form of the verb should be used. Thus ‘expected’ should be replaced by ‘expect’ . D – We are talking about the score of a particular territory, China. So territory’s is the correct word. The sentence will be Given the Chinese Communist Party’s unprecedented intervention in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, the authors expect the territory’s freedom score to decline notably in the future editions of the index.

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