Question
It is what Buddhists and various (A)/other doctrines
aim to severe (B)/in an effort to transcend (C)/samsaric rebirth and needless suffering (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 ‘severe’ is inappropriate here. The correct word to be used is ‘sever’, which means ‘to break or separate, especially by cutting’.            It is what Buddhists and various other doctrines aim to sever in an effort to transcend samsaric rebirth and needless suffering.          Â
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