The following sentence is broken into four parts and two parts may contain an error in them. Find out the combination which contains error, if the sentence is free from error, mark ‘No error’.
Nine needles was removed from the throat of a 14-year-old girl (A) at the government-run hospital in (B) West Bengal after a four-hour surgery. Doctors found one needle (C) at the back of the girl's throat and eight near the food pipe after an x-ray. (D)
The correct answer is option 3, i.e. AB.
The error is in parts A and B.
In A, ‘was’ is incorrect as ‘Nine needles’ is plural and not singular, thus, it must be replaced with ‘were’.
In B, 'the' is incorrect and should be replaced with 'a' since the hospital is not specified.
Hence, the sentence can be corrected as,
Nine needles were removed from the throat of a 14-year-old girl at a government-run hospital in West Bengal after a four-hour surgery. Doctors found one needle at the back of the girl's throat and eight near the food pipe after an x-ray.