Answer-At least one-third (A)/of all women (B)/over ninety has (C)/sustained a hip fracture (D).

With words that indicate portionspercent, fraction, part, majority, some, all,none, remainder, and so forth look at the noun in theof phrase object of thepreposition to determine whether to use a singular or plural verb. If the object ofthe preposition is singular, use a singular verb. If the object of the preposition isplural, use a plural verb. Here, have is correct. At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.

Question

At least one-third (

A /of all women (
B /over ninety has (
C /sustained a hip fracture (
D .

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).

A At least one-third

B of all women

C over ninety has

D sustained a hip fracture

E No error

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