Question

Find out the error in each of the following sentences, if any. If there is no error, your answer is 'e'.
On reaching the station (a) he found that (b) he left the papers (c) in the drawing room. (d) No Error.(e)
A. a
B. b
C. c
D. d
E. e

Answer 1

Hint:The error can be detected by checking the basic ingredients of the word in an English sentence.
There are main ingredients in a sentence :-
1) Concord:- Concord is an agreement with respect to number, gender, tense, case, and mood between the words.
2) Government:- Each word should be governed by another word in the sentence.
3) Order:- The proper location of the word in a sentence is the order.
If any of the above ingredients are missing in the sentence, a word will be grammatically incorrect.

Complete answer:
“On reaching the station he found that he left the papers in the drawing room”
This sentence is grammatically correct as well as the structure and order is correct too.
After checking grammar, order of words, usage of nouns,pronouns we can say that there is no error.
Lets see options :-
On reaching station :- this sentence is grammatically correct thus there is no error in this.
He found that : this sentence is grammatically correct thus there is no error in this.
He left the papers :- this sentence is grammatically correct thus there is no error in this.
In the drawing room :- this sentence is grammatically correct thus there is no error in this.
No error :- there were no errors in the given sentence thus this is the correct option.

Hence the correct answer is option E.

Note:You need to learn the grammatical elements of the language in order to spot mistakes. Those things include:- parts of speech, agreement with the subject-verb, accent, tenses, etc. A reasonably decent vocabulary will also need to be developed, so that you know how different words in different contexts are used.