Question
At present, the wind industry is facing headwinds in
both countries as projects are hobbling by issues of land and network availability. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any).Solution
The phrase "hobbling by issues" is grammatically and contextually inappropriate. The verb "hobbling" is incorrect in this context. The correct construction is "hobbled by issues" , as it conveys that the projects are being hindered or impeded by these problems.
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