Question

    Their idea of a fun Saturday afternoon (A)/is to go

    paintballing and (B)/take up covered in golfball-sized red weals (C)/from being shot at close range (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 Their idea of a fun Saturday afternoon Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B is to go paintballing and Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C take up covered in golfball-sized red weals Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D from being shot at close range Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The phrasal verb ‘take up’ means ‘to begin to do something’. This is not the correct phrasal verb here. The correct phrasal verb is ‘end up’, which means ‘to finally be in a particular place or situation’. Their idea of a fun Saturday afternoon is to go paintballing and end up covered in golfball-sized red weals from being shot at close range.  

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