SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 14

SSC MTS - 25 July 2022 - Shift 1 • English • Q14

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.

She didn’t knew / that I was out / for some urgent work.

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. She didn’t knew.

  • The given sentence contains an error in the second part.
  • In the second part of the sentence, the verb "knew" is in the past tense, but it is not correctly conjugated.
  • The correct past tense of the verb "know" is "knew". Therefore, the correct sentence should be "She didn't know".

The correct sentence is:

She didn't know that I was out for some urgent work.