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)
A
A
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B
B
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C
C
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D
D
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E
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.