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    Question

    National Guard teams have been sent to help overwhelmed

    hospitals (A)/in western New York, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker issued (B)/an emergency order require any hospitals facing limited patient capacity (C)/to reduce scheduled procedures that are not urgent (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 National Guard teams have been sent to help overwhelmed hospitals Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B in western New York, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker issued Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C an emergency order require any hospitals facing limited patient capacity Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D to reduce scheduled procedures that are not urgent Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Here, "require" is incorrect. The gerund "requiring" should be used here. National Guard teams have been sent to help overwhelmed hospitals in western New York, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker issued an emergency order requiring any hospitals facing limited patient capacity to reduce scheduled procedures that are not urgent.

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