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Find out the error in the following sentence, if any. If there is no error, your answer is 'E'.
The teacher said, "Years (A) ago, it believed (B) that the earth (C) was flat."(D) No Error.(E)
Find out the error in the following sentence, if any. If there is no error, your answer is 'E'.
The teacher said, "Years (A) ago, it believed (B) that the earth (C) was flat."(D) No Error.(E)
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The correct option is B B
It will be 'it was believed' instead of 'it believed'. The direct speech is in passive voice which requires a verb structure of an auxiliary coupled with the past participle form of the main verb. Hence, the error is in part B. There is no error in parts A, C and D. E is not correct because part B contains an error.
It will be 'it was believed' instead of 'it believed'. The direct speech is in passive voice which requires a verb structure of an auxiliary coupled with the past participle form of the main verb. Hence, the error is in part B. There is no error in parts A, C and D. E is not correct because part B contains an error.
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