Question
Overall, the wait of the (A)/empirical evidence
supports (B)/these essentially conservative arguments (C)/for the minimum wage (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 ‘wait’ is inappropriate here. The correct word to be used is ‘weight’. Overall, the weight of the empirical evidence supports these essentially conservative arguments for the minimum wage.
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