SSC MTS 2019 PYQ — Question 15

SSC MTS Previous Year - 08 August 2019 - Shift 2 • English • Q15

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error from the given options.

We couldn't understand they because they were talking in Chinese.

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. they because.

Concept/Grammar rules

Application

Use of ‘they’ is incorrect.

Here we need to use the objective form of ‘They’ as verb is followed by ‘Object’ only.

‘Them’ is the objective case of ‘They’.

Hence, ‘Them’ will be used here in place of ‘They’.

We couldn't understand them because they were talking in Chinese.