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2020 · Q11

Each item has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Find out whether there is any error in any underlined part. If you find no error, your response should be (d).

After mysteriously expanding for decades, (a) / Antarctica's sea ice cover (b) / starting melting. (c) / No error (d)

EnglishSpotting Errors
  1. A(a)
  2. B(b)
  3. C(c)
  4. DNo error (d)

Explanation

Part (c) 'starting melting' is ungrammatical — it should be 'started melting' (or 'is starting to melt'). Parts (a) and (b) are correct, so the error is in (c).