Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine whether there is an error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the answer sheet against the above-mentioned corresponding letter. If there is no error, indicate your response as (d).
(a) In his well-recognised stentorian yet amused voice
(b) the principal demanded an unique excuse
(c) from the student hauled up for alleged minor misdemeanour.
(d) No error
- AIn his well-recognised stentorian yet amused voice
- Bthe principal demanded an unique excuse
- Cfrom the student hauled up for alleged minor misdemeanour.
- DNo error
Explanation
Part (b) uses "an unique excuse", but the article before "unique" is governed by its initial consonant sound /j/ ("yoo-neek"), which requires "a", not "an" — the classic a/an error. Parts (a) and (c) contain no grammatical fault: "stentorian yet amused voice" is fine, and "hauled up for alleged minor misdemeanour" is idiomatic. The error therefore lies in (b).