Question

Find out which part of a sentence has an error. If there is no error, your answer is option D i.e No Error.
She regards (A)/negotiating prices with customers (B)/as her special expertise. (C)/No error (D)

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

Answer 1

Hint:We need to identify an error (if any) in the given sentence “She regards negotiating prices with customers as her special expertise”, which means we will analyse every part of the sentence to look for an error (any grammatical mistake). It is given in case there is no error, our answer will be option D.

Complete answer:
Let us analyse each option individually to figure out the correct answer.

A: This refers to part A of the sentence i.e “She regards”. The word ‘regard’ means to look upon or think of. This part of the sentence is grammatically correct. Therefore this option doesn’t have any errors.

B: This refers to part B of the sentence i.e “negotiating prices with customers”. The word ‘negotiating’ means the act of bargaining. This part of the sentence is grammatically correct. Therefore this option doesn’t have any errors.

C: This refers to part C of the sentence i.e “as her special expertise”. The word ‘expertise’ means an expert knowledge or skill. This noun doesn’t need an adjective ‘special’ to get expressed. As it takes it to
redundancy. Therefore, we need to omit the word ‘special’.

D. No error: This is an invalid option as we have encountered the error in option C.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘C’.

Note:The words ‘special expertise’ are an example of redundancy. Redundancy in grammar means when we use two words meaning the same together. Example: adequate enough. Example: blunder mistake. Example: beautifully pretty etc. These words are meant to be used independently.
Example: I made a blunder mistake. (Wrong, as the word blunder itself means a huge mistake).
            I did a blunder. (Correct).