In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select ‘No Error’.
Critics of television often (1)/ focus on the prevalent of (2)/ violence in today’s programmes. (3)/ No error (4)
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Focus on the prevalent of.
The error lies in part 2 of the statement because of the different part of speech.
Concept-
- We need to replace 'prevalent' with 'prevalence' to make the statement grammatically correct.
- An article always takes a noun after it.
- So we need to use 'prevalence' at the place of 'prevalent'.
The correct sentence will be-
Critics of television often focus on the prevalence of violence in today’s programmes.