Question

Direction: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number corresponding to that part will be your answer. If the given sentence is correct as it is, mark the answer as ‘No error’. Ignore the errors of punctuation if any.

They believe that the (1)/ European Community (2)/ is needing a common foreign (3)/ and security policy. (4)

• A. 1
• B. 2
• C. 3
• D. 4
• E. No error

Answer 1

The correct option is C 3

Simple present tense must be used instead of present continuous tense with verbs of perception (feel, hear, smell etc.), verbs of cognition (believe, know, think etc.), verbs of emotion (hope, love, hate etc.).

Therefore, ‘is needing’ must be replaced with ‘needs’ to form a grammatically correct sentence.

Hence, option C is the correct answer.