Question
In Iran, at least eight people killed (A)/and twelve
others were (B)/injured after four (C)/train carriages derailed (D)/between the towns of Mashhad and Yazd (E). Directions: In each question given below, a sentence is divided into 5 parts and one part of the sentence has an error. You have to choose from the given options, the part that contain the error.Solution
When there are two Subjects in a sentence and they are not in the same Number, then we must have to use separate Auxiliaries (is, are, am, was, were, have, has) for both of them. So here, ‘eight people were killed’ is correct. In Iran, at least eight people were killed and twelve others were injured after four train carriages derailed between the towns of Mashhad and Yazd.
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