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).
**The teacher asked**/ **that who was absent**/ **in the class that day.**/ **No error.**
- AThe teacher asked
- Bthat who was absent
- Cin the class that day.
- DNo error.
Explanation
The error is in part (b). In indirect questions the interrogative pronoun stands alone: “The teacher asked who was absent.” Stacking the conjunction “that” before “who” (“that who was absent”) is ungrammatical — only one of the two can introduce the clause. Part (a) correctly uses the reporting verb “asked”, and part (c) is a well-formed adverbial of place and time. Hence the sentence must be corrected in (b).