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    Question

    There was widespread (1)/ expectation that the interest

    rate (2)/ will be lowered to (3)/ combat the economic slowdown. (4) The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error and select the option which rectifies that error. If no error is present then mark option 5 i.e., 'no error' as your answer.
    A 1 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B 2 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C 3 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D 4 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E no error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The sentence is discussing a past expectation, so the correct tense should be "would be" instead of "will be." The corrected sentence is: There was widespread expectation that the interest rate would be lowered to combat the economic slowdown.

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