Find the part of the sentence that contains an error:
No sooner had the proposal been circulated (1)/ that objections were raised (2)/ regarding its feasibility and financial implications (3)/ across all departments. (4)
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. (2).
Error Concept: related to the use of correlative conjunctions.
What is wrong: The word “that” is incorrectly used after “No sooner… than”.
Grammar Concept: When we use “No sooner… than”, it is a fixed pair. We must always use “than”, not “that”.
Incorrectness of the concept in context: Here, “that objections were raised” breaks the correct structure of the correlative conjunction.
Correction: Thus, “that” should be replaced with “than”.
Corrected phrase: than objections were raised.
Final sentence: No sooner had the proposal been circulated than objections were raised regarding its feasibility and financial implications across all departments.
Hence, the chosen option is correct.