The following sentence has been divided into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Please go and meet the chairperson. / She will be / away for the / few next days.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. few next days.
Error concept: Adjective order
What is wrong: The phrase “few next days” is incorrect in word order.
Grammatical concept: In English, determiners like 'the', followed by quantifiers like 'few' and then by adjectives like 'next', must follow a proper sequence. The correct order should be “the next few days.”
Incorrectness of the concept in context: “Few next days” does not follow the standard adjective order and sounds awkward. Native usage always prefers “next few days.”
How to correct: Reverse the order to “next few days” which is the standard expression.
Correct correction: the next few days
Final sentence: Please go and meet the chairperson. She will be away for the next few days.