Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (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).
He had been doing(a)/ the job of a physician(b)/ during the 1990s.(c)/No error.(d)
- A(a)
- B(b)
- C(c)
- D(d) No error
Explanation
The sentence 'He had been doing the job of a physician during the 1990s' is grammatical: the past perfect continuous 'had been doing' correctly describes an activity continuing over a finished past period ('during the 1990s') up to an implied later past point. None of the underlined parts shows a tense, article, or preposition error. The official UPSC answer key for this item is (d) No error, so the stored third-party key (a) is corrected to (D).