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In the following sentence, four words or phrases have been printed in bold. One bold part in the sentence is not acceptable in Standard English. Pick up that part and mark its number. If there is no error in the bold parts, mark (5) i.e. ‘No error’ as the answer. That Brutus who was his trusted friend had attacked on him and caused heartbreak to Julius Ceasar.

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In the following sentence, four words or phrases have been printed in bold. One bold part in the sentence is not acceptable in Standard English. Pick up that part and mark its number. If there is no error in the bold parts, mark (5) i.e. ‘No error’ as the answer.

That Brutus who was his trusted friend had attacked on him and caused heartbreak to Julius Ceasar.


1). That
2). Was his
3). On
4). To


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The error is in 'Option 3' i.e. the preposition 'on', it should be removed from the sentence.

Note: Verb 'attack' does not take any preposition.

For example; We didn't intend to attack him.

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