The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The city turned out / to be very / different to what / he had expected.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. different to what.
- The error lies in the option 1 due to the wrong usage of conjunction.
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In the given sentence, a comparison is being made between what the subject (he) thought about the city and what it turned out to be in the reality.
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When comparisons are made, the preposition 'to' is not used. In order to introduce the second element of comparison, we need to use the conjunction 'than'.
The correct sentence will be:-
The city turned out to be very different than what he had expected.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 1 i.e. different to what.