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    Question

    In each of the questions, a sentence is divided into

    five parts A, B, C, D and E in which two of the parts have some grammatical errors in them. You have to identify which pair among the given alternatives represents the parts that contain those errors. If none of the parts have any error, then mark option 5, i.e., ‘No error’ as your answer. She was a talented writer, but she was never quite able (A)/ to finish her novel, a project she had worked on (B)/ for over a decade, despite of the fact that she had (C)/ all the resources, which she needed to complete it (D)/ and she felt sense of disappointment. (E) 
    A C & E Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B D & E Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C B & D Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D A & D Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No error Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The phrase "despite of the fact" is grammatically incorrect. The correct idiom is simply "despite the fact" or "in spite of the fact." The preposition "of" should not follow "despite." The phrase "and she felt sense of disappointment" is missing the article "a". In English, countable nouns (things you can count: book, car, sense, idea, etc.) almost always need an article (a, an, the) or another determiner (some, her, this). Sense is a countable noun. You can say “a sense of humour”, “a sense of duty”, “a sense of loss.” Without an article, “…she felt sense of disappointment” sounds wrong because it treats sense like an uncountable noun (like water or information), which is wrong in this usage. 

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