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.
It was a surprising / to receive the gift/ from my brother.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. It was a surprising.
Given sentence: It was a surprising / to receive the gift/ from my brother.
articles are only used before countable nouns. Here, 'surprising' is uncountable, so, the article 'a' should be removed before surprising.
Correct sentence: It was surprising / to receive the gift/ from my brother.