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.
Tara has been playing / cricket with her friends / since noon.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. No error.
Error concept: Checking for tense and preposition accuracy with “since.”
What is wrong: There is no grammatical error in the sentence. It correctly uses the present perfect continuous tense (“has been playing”) along with ‘since’ to indicate the starting point of an ongoing action.
Grammatical concept:
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Present Perfect Continuous Tense is used to show an action that started in the past and is still continuing.
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“Since” is used with a specific point in time (e.g., since morning, since Monday, since noon).
Incorrectness of the concept in context: None — the sentence is accurate in both structure and meaning.
How to correct: No correction needed.
Correct phrase / correction: The sentence is already correct.
Final sentence: Tara has been playing cricket with her friends since noon.
Hence, the chosen option is correct.