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Question

Find out the error in each of the following sentences, if any. If there is no error, your answer is 'E'.
I was surprised (A) to know why had he turned (B) down such a good offer (C) of marriage. (D) No Error.(E)

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Solution

The correct option is B B
"Why had he" is an auxiliary-noun inversion and such a construct is used only for questions and the given sentence is not a question so it should be changed to "why he had". Therefore B carries the error.

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