Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b)and (c). Read each sentence to find out 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) The best way in which you can (b) open the bottle (c) is by putting it into hot water first. (d) No error.
- A(a)
- B(b)
- C(c)
- D(d) No error
Explanation
The faulty segment is (a), 'The best way in which you can.' The idiomatic construction for expressing a method is 'the best way to open the bottle'; piling 'in which you can' onto 'the best way' is wordy and unidiomatic, since 'in which' already expresses manner. Parts (b) 'open the bottle' and (c) 'by putting it into hot water first' are grammatical. Hence (a) is correct.