Question

Read the sentence carefully and find out if there is any error in any part (a, b, c) of the sentence:
(a)The king was embarrassed (b) to find evidence (c) against his own queen.
(a) a
(b) b
(c) c
(d) No error

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully. Try to make out the core meaning of the sentence, the subject, predicate, and object of it as well.

Complete answer: The sentence is talking about a king who was embarrassed because of the evidence against the queen. We have to arrange it in the correct order.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
The option, with the error in it, is the correct option.
Option ‘a’ - There is no error in the part "The king was embarrassed"; it's in the past tense and agrees to the rest of the sentence. Hence option A is incorrect.
Option ‘b’ - The error lies in "to find evidence" because 'evidence' is a mass noun and is usually written in its singular form. The plural form 'evidences' is used in archaic texts, religious language or other specialized uses. The given sentence does not display any of these situations. Hence this part has an error. So, option B is correct.
Option ‘c’ - Similarly, the words "against his own queen" also do not contain any error. Hence C is incorrect.
Hence, option ‘b’ is the correct option.

Note: All the other options are logically incorrect. You must know the parts of speech of all the given words to arrange them systematically.