Question

    Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical 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).

    It was disappointing that in the initial stages (A)/of

    implementation, there were insistence on (B)/ satellite images as evidence while other admissible proofs (C)/were ignored, as happened in Gujarat (D).
    A It was disappointing that in the initial stages Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B of implementation, there were insistence on Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C satellite images as evidence while other admissible proofs Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D were ignored, as happened in Gujarat Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Here, ‘there was’ is correct because we are talking about ‘insistence’. It was disappointing that in the initial stages of implementation, there was insistence on satellite images as evidence while other admissible proofs were ignored, as happened in Gujarat.

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