SSC Stenographer 2022 PYQ — Question 38

SSC Stenographer - 18 Nov 2022 - Shift 1 • English • Q38

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.

The team dwelt with / their performance / in the last quarter.

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. The team dwelt with

The verb dwell is commonly used with the preposition "on" to indicate that someone is focusing or elaborating on a particular subject.

For example, dwell on a topic means to spend time thinking or talking about it in detail.

Dwelt is past simple and past participle of dwell.

Hence, the corrected sentence would be "The team dwelt on their performance in the last quarter".