SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 12

SSC MTS - 19 July 2022 - Shift 1 • English • Q12

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.

Most of the families in / my research rely at phone calls / for almost all of their communication.

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. my research rely at phone calls.

The error in the given sentence is in the second part, "my research rely at phone calls." The preposition "at" should be replaced with "on". So, the correct sentence would be "Most of the families in my research rely on phone calls for almost all of their communication."

The correct usage is "rely on" instead of "rely at" as "rely on" means to depend on or trust someone or something. Hence, it is important to use the correct preposition to ensure grammatical accuracy.