Question

    You can cook up (A)/the most wanted criminals all over

    (B)/the world at Most Wanted, a site that (C)/links up to law enforcement's desired baddies (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 You can cook up Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B the most wanted criminals all over Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C the world at Most Wanted, a site that Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D links up to law enforcement's desired baddies Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The phrasal verb ‘cook up’ means ‘to invent a story, plan, etc., usually dishonestly’. This is not the correct phrasal verb. The correct phrasal verb is ‘look up’, which means ‘to find’ or ‘search for’. You can look up the most wanted criminals all over the world at Most Wanted, a site that links up to law enforcement's desired baddies.

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