Question
The future of food companies seems quite secure owed to
ever–growing demand. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.Solution
"owed to" should be replaced with "owing to." "Owing to" is used to express cause, while "owed to" is incorrect in this context. The corrected sentence is “The future of food companies seems quite secure owing to ever-growing demand.”
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