Select the segment of the sentence that contains the grammatical error. If…
2025
Select the segment of the sentence that contains the grammatical error. If there is no error, mark 'No error' as your answer.
Karun has a X-ray machine (A) / which is very significant for (B) / him due to many reasons. (C) / No error (D)
- A.
(A) "Karun has a X-ray machine"
- B.
(B) "which is very significant for"
- C.
(C) "him due to many reasons."
- D.
(D) "No error"
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Correct answer: A
English chooses the indefinite article by the SOUND that begins the next word, not by its spelling: use 'a' before a consonant sound and 'an' before a vowel sound. This applies to letters and abbreviations too, since they are judged by how they are pronounced — for example 'an MBA', 'an SMS', and 'an X-ray' — even when the written first letter is a consonant.
In this sentence, segment (A) reads 'Karun has a X-ray machine.' 'X-ray' is pronounced 'eks-ray,' so it begins with the vowel sound /e/, not a consonant sound. The article before it must therefore be 'an', not 'a' — making 'a X-ray machine' the grammatical error in the sentence.
(B) 'which is very significant for' — a correctly formed relative clause; no article, tense, or agreement fault.
(C) 'him due to many reasons.' — 'due to' is used here as a standard preposition meaning 'because of', which is accepted in current usage, so this segment is not a grammatical fault.
(D) 'No error' — cannot be correct once a genuine fault (the article before 'X-ray') is present in one of the other segments.
Correct sentence: 'Karun has an X-ray machine, which is very significant for him due to many reasons.' The grammatical error is in segment (A).
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