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    Question

    The policy comes after companies faced criticism on

    requiring employees to work during the floods, despite a red alert issued by the national weather agency.  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).
    A The policy comes after companies faced criticism Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B on requiring employees to work Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C during the floods, despite a red alert Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D issued by the national weather agency. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The preposition "on" is incorrect in this context. The correct preposition should be "for" , as the phrase "faced criticism for" is the appropriate expression when referring to what the criticism was about.

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