Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts, labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).
(a) Being a rainy day, (b) we did not feel like going out or doing anything (c) except playing chess in our room. (d) No error.
- A(a)
- B(b)
- C(c)
- D(d)
Explanation
Part (a) contains a dangling participle: 'Being a rainy day' has no subject to perform the action of 'being'. A participle phrase needs a logical subject, so the dummy pronoun 'it' must be added to give 'It being a rainy day'. Parts (b) and (c) are grammatically fine. Hence the error is in (a).