The following sentence has been split into segments. One of them may contain an error. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
No one were/present when I / entered the hall.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. No one were.
Given sentence: No one were/present when I / entered the hall.
The indefinite pronouns are always singular.
Ex: No one, nobody, anybody, somebody,etc.
So, "no one were" should be replaced by "no one was."
Correct sentence: No one was/present when I / entered the hall.