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    Question

    The school would make (A)/headlines six years later,

    (B)/as the Governor called after (C)/the Arkansas National Guard to prevent its integration (D). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical/contextual 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).
    A The school would make Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B headlines six years later Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C as the Governor called after Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D the Arkansas National Guard to prevent its integration Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The phrasal verb ‘call after’ means ‘Give a newborn baby the same name as someone else.’. The correct phrasal verb is ‘call out’, which means ‘to ask someone to come in order to do a job, especially when it is an emergency’. The school would make headlines six years later, as the Governor called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent its integration.

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