SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 21

SSC MTS - 26 July 2022 - Shift 2 • English • Q21

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

His successful as a lawyer / grew so fast that he soon had / enough money to buy a house.

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. His successful as a lawyer.

 

  • The given sentence has a grammatical error in the first part of the sentence, "His successful as a lawyer."
  • The adjective "successful" is incorrectly used as a noun, which is not grammatically correct.
  • It should be replaced with the noun "success" to make the sentence grammatically correct.

Therefore, the correct sentence is:

"His success as a lawyer grew so fast that he soon had enough money to buy a house."