Question
Granted, with the roll call (A)/of the most industrious
pieces of (B)/golf real estate on their books (C)/they've already got a bit of a head start (D).   Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).Solution
The word ‘industrious’ means ‘regularly working very hard’. It is inappropriate. The correct word here is ‘illustrious’. It means ‘famous because of its excellence’. Granted, with the roll call of the most illustrious pieces of golf real estate on their books they've already got a bit of a head start.   Â
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