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.
While driving, Satheesh always / switches off his mobile phone / and kept it in the dashboard.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. and kept it in the dashboard
- The error is in the tense agreement.
- In the original sentence, "switches off" is in the present tense.
- "Kept" is in the past tense.
- To make the sentence grammatically correct, both verbs should be in the same tense.
Hence, the correct answer would be and kept it in the dashboard.