The following sentence has been divided into three segments. One of them may contain an adverbial usage error. Select the option that has the segment with the error. If you don’t find any error, select ‘No error’ as your answer.
Mr. Narayanan / is a rather / lazy man.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. No error.
The subject Mr. Narayanan is singular, and it matches with the singular verb is.
The word rather is used as an adverb here, to modify the adjective lazy. It means "to some degree" or "quite."
The adjective lazy correctly modifies the noun man to describe Mr. Narayanan's characteristics.