CAT 1991 — VARC Question 19
ModifiersEasy
The sentence below has been broken up into four parts sequentially (a, b, c, d). Choose that part which contains a mistake.
(a) Gavaskar was a great batsman who
(b) having played more than 100
(c) test matches, he then decided
(d) to call it a day.
Answer & solution
- A
A
- B
B
C
- D
D
Solution
We already have a subject ‘who’ for the verb ‘decided’, so ‘he then’ is wrongly used here.
Hence, option (c).