The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Washington Irving’s writing career started at / the tender age of nineteen when he joined / his brother Peter’s newspaper The Morning Chronicle / as journalist.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. as journalist .
The phrase "as journalist" is incorrect.
Generally, singular countable nouns must have an article (a/an) before them unless they are proper nouns or uncountable nouns.
"Journalist" is a singular countable noun, so it requires the indefinite article "a".
Corrected Sentence: Washington Irving’s writing career started at the tender age of nineteen when he joined his brother Peter’s newspaper The Morning Chronicle as a journalist.
Hence, the chosen option is correct.