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Ans (3): a person whom had

‘Who’ is the correct usage instead of ‘whom’. ‘Who’ should be used in the subject position in a sentence, while ‘whom’ should be used in the object position, and also after a preposition.

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Ans (1): Neither Akash or

‘Neither’ is always followed by ‘nor’. In option (1), ‘neither’ is used with ‘or’; it is an error.

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Ans (1): Rajan is praying

Since the sentence talks about a regular activity, we need to use present simple tense instead of present continuous. So it should be ‘prays’ instead of ‘is praying’ in part (1).

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Ans (2): some advices

The error is in part (2) of the given sentence. The error lies in the usage of the word advice. ‘Advice’ is a mass/collective noun; hence, its plural form is not used. The corrected part would be- ‘some advice’.

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Ans (2): shower myself and

The error is in part (2) of the given sentence. The error is related to the use of reflexive pronoun ‘myself’; according to the rules of English grammar, we do not use a reflexive pronoun after verbs which describe things people usually do for themselves, such as wash, shave, dress; hence, to make the sentence correct myself should be omitted.

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Ans (4): for my husband and I

There is a error in part (4) of the given sentence. Instead of the nominative (I) case of the pronoun, objective (me) case of the pronoun should be used, as ‘me’ is the correct object of the preposition ‘for’.

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Ans (3): that wasn’t enough bad, they accused

The error is in the third part of the sentence.

‘Enough’ as an adverb meaning 'to the necessary degree' is used after the adjective or adverb that it is modifying, and not before it as other adverbs do.

In the given sentence, it is used before an adverb ‘bad’ which is erroneous.

Rather the phrase should be ‘bad enough’ to form a grammatically correct sentence.

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Ans (3): and we weren't very surprised

The error is in the third part of the sentence.

We use ‘very’ before the present participle and ‘much’ before the past participle in the passive form, except for a few instances like ‘very pleased’, ‘very contented’, ‘very frightened’ etc.

Therefore, ‘very’ must be replaced with ‘much’ to form a grammatically correct sentence.

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Ans (4): sending through snail mail

The error is in the fourth part of the sentence.

Parallelism uses similar words, phrases, or clauses to show that ideas have the same level of importance. It is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning.

In the given sentence, all the parts contain nouns while the fourth part contains a verb representing an action. It should be properly reframed to form a parallel sentence. ‘Sending through’ should be removed to make it a grammatically correct sentence.

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Ans (4): and tied up the captives

The error is in the fourth part of the sentence.

Parallelism uses similar words, phrases, or clauses to show that ideas have the same level of importance. It is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning.

In this sentence, ‘controlling’ and ‘trimming’ are gerunds (verbs functioning as nouns) and ‘tied up’ is a participle. It should be replaced with ‘tying up’ to form a parallel sentence.