Answer-Patients have bled themselves (A)/into anaemia and then (B)/set up at a doctor's office (C)/stating...

The phrasal verb set up means the way in which things are organized or arranged. This phrasal verb is inappropriate here. The correct phrasal verb is show up. It means to arrive somewhere in order to join a group of people, especially late or unexpectedly. Patients have bled themselves into anaemia and then showed up at a doctors office stating they havent a clue about how they became so ill.

Question

Patients have bled themselves (

A /into anaemia and then (
B /set up at a doctor's office (
C /stating they haven't a clue about how they became so ill (
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 Patients have bled themselves

B into anaemia and then

C set up at a doctor's office

D stating they haven't a clue about how they became so ill

E No error

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