2024 · Q72
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) The politicians (b) parted ways (c) due towards ideological differences. (d) No error
EnglishSpotting Errors
- A(a)
- B(b)
- C(c)
- D(d) No error
Explanation
The error is in part (c): the correct idiom is ‘due to’, not ‘due towards’. ‘Due to’ means ‘because of’/‘owing to’; ‘towards’ cannot follow ‘due’ in this sense. Parts (a) and (b) are correct. Hence the error is in (c).