Question
Climate scientists warn that without immediate action to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the world may face catastrophe consequences in the form of more severe droughts and floods. Given below are sentences with an error in each. The error is in one part of the sentence. Below each sentence are given the options containing the parts of the sentences. Choose the option which contains the error. If no error, choose option e ‘No error’.Solution
The word ‘Catastrophe’ is a noun while we need an adjective ‘catastrophic’ to define the noun ‘consequences’.Â
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