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    The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given option
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    The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error.
    Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
    He always aimed highly in life.

    A.

    No error

    B.

    in life.

    C.

    aimed highly

    D.

    He always

    Correct option is C

    The error is in part C, which should be “aimed high” instead of “aimed highly”.
     High is an adjective which means of great vertical extent.
     Highly is an adverb which means at or to a high degree or level.
     An adverb has to be used because the word being modified is a verb.
     Adverbs are used to modify verb, adjective and other adverbs, while adjectives are used to modify a noun or a pronoun.

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