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    The following sentence has been split into segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No err
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    The following sentence has been split into segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
    He missed the college bus / because he woke up / unpardonably lately in the morning.

    A.

    he missed the college bus

    B.

    unpardonably lately in the morning

    C.

    no error

    D.

    because he woke up

    Correct option is B

    The error in the sentence is in segment (b) ‘unpardonably lately in the morning’.
    • The adverb ‘unpardonably’ is used incorrectly here. It means something that cannot be forgiven or excused, which doesn't fit the context. The correct adverb should be ‘unacceptably’ or ‘too late’.
    • The word ‘lately’ is also incorrect because it refers to recent times (usually in the present perfect tense) and doesn’t fit well with the phrase.
    • Hence, the phrase should be rephrased as ‘too late in the morning’ or ‘unacceptably late in the morning’.

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