Question

Find out the error in the following sentences if any. If there is no error, your answer is ‘e’.
a)In his concluding
b)remarks, he said
c)almost nothing
d)worth listening to.
e)No error

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence is in the present continuous tense. All the verb forms must agree with this.

Complete answer:

 The given sentence is a report on some meetings. It states a remark shared by someone on the program and its final event. We have to analyze it and look at which part of the sentence has gone wrong and how.
Let’s analyze the sentence construction. Given in the present continuous tense, the sentence tells us an opinion.
The first part of the sentence in option a does not have an error. It marks the beginning of the sentence with the right capitalization.
Option b is also right as it has a comma after ‘remarks’ to link the sentence with its main body. The coma helps the reader to understand the transition or shift from the introduction of a sentence to its main topic.
The phrase in option c is also error-free.
Option d has the final part of the sentence. It tells me that the concluding part of the speech does not have anything worth listening to. The deletion of ‘to from the sentence gives us the right construction. Hence use of ‘to’ after listening is the error here.

Note: You can use ‘to’ after listening for some sentences. Example: ‘She was listening to music.’