Identify the segment in the sentence, which contains the grammatical error.
The old man climbed seven floors with hardly no effort at all.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. hardly no effort.
- The error lies in part 3 of the statement because of the wrong use of an adverb.
- We need to replace "no" with "any" for making the statement grammatically correct.
- The adverb “hardly” itself has a negative meaning as it implies “scarcely” or “no effect at all.” “Hardly” is used with a positive word and not a negative word. So, to correct the sentence the negative word ‘no’ would be replaced by a positive word ‘any.’
The correct sentence would be-
“The old man felled some trees in the garden with hardly any effort at all.”
Hence, Option 3 is the correct answer.