In the following question, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark the remaining, i.e., the errorless combination as your answer. Almost every New England boy excluding my contemporaries (A)/ shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of (B)/ ten and fourteen; and their hunting and fishing grounds (C)/ were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, (D)/ but were more boundless even than those of a savage. (E)
In the following question, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark the remaining, i.e., the errorless combination as your answer.
Almost every New England boy excluding my contemporaries (A)/ shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of (B)/ ten and fourteen; and their hunting and fishing grounds (C)/ were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, (D)/ but were more boundless even than those of a savage. (E)
1).
ABCD
2).
BCDE
3).
BDE
4).
ACD
1 answers
The errors are in part (A) and part (C) of the sentence.
Part A- ‘among’ should replace ‘excluding’. The segment means that ‘almost every New England boy in the group of speaker’s fellows’. ‘excluding’ means ‘except’, while ‘among’ means ‘being a member or members of (a larger set)’. Thus, ‘among’ is more appropriate according to the context.
Part C- ‘his’ should replace ‘their’. The word ‘every’ takes singular noun or pronoun with it, as it makes multiple persons or thing a single group or entity. For example: ‘Every person has his own views and opinions’.
Correct sentence- ‘Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage.’