Question

In the following sentence, four words or phrases have been underlined. Choose the word or phrase which is not appropriate in standard written English. If the sentence has no error, mark (5).

Quite a few items of this (1) data seem (2) to have been (3) cooked up (4). NO ERROR (5)

Answer 1

The context of the given sentence requires the plural "these" and not "this" [1]. "These" refers to the plural 'items' and the word "data" is also used in its plural sense.