Directions (Q. 1 - Q. 10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
It was our first trip after marriage, and my husband and I decided to visit Fiji. Being explorers we were most
excited to see their second-largest island, Vanua Levu. The night before the trip, our travel broker sent us a
message that the hotel had lost our reservation details. So eight hours before we were supposed to leave for
the airport, they had to scramble to find a reservation for us. The hotel was a four-hour drive from the
airport, and we were unsure if we would even be accommodated.
We got to the airport and we were told at one check-in desk that we had to board the flight from the opposite
side of the airport. Not only did we have to run through the San Francisco Airport with our 40-pound hiking
packs, but we also had to run through security because we were going to miss our boarding time. We dashed
through security but, as we boarded, realized that they had overbooked the plane, and two of us were not on
board and we were left behind.
The airline lost half of our baggage, and we were forced to make the trip without it. During our layover to
take off from LAX to Fiji, someone had a heart attack, and the flight attendants were frantically looking for
a doctor. Luckily there was one on board, and the person made it off in time. Now two hours delayed, we
made the 11-hour flight to Fiji.
Everything went smoothly for two weeks, but on the way back, our flight was delayed due to bad weather,
and we were stuck on the airport floor. The two of us had some mysterious stomach bug that made us
extremely ill for 24 hours. I remember sleeping on the floor, wrapped in my sleeping bag, crying because I
was so sick and just wanted to get home. By the time we landed in San Francisco, we were mentally
exhausted. We left the airport at 3 a.m. and made the three-hour drive back home! It was such a wild
experience but has been our favourite anecdote to tell at gatherings.
In the following sentence, four words or phrases have been printed in bold. One bold part in
the sentence is not acceptable in Standard English. Pick up that part and mark its number. If
there are no errors in the bold parts, mark (5) i.e. No error as the answer.
Providing fresh hopes(A)/ to ginger farmers in South India, the prize(B)/ of ginger rhizomes has been
spiralling(C)/ on account of scant supply and huge demand. (A)/ No error
๐ก Solution & Explanation:
Correct Answer: Option (B) โ prize
Grammar & Vocabulary Concept
Grammar & Sentence Syntax (Error Detection).
Step-by-Step Solution:
Analyzing sentence construction against standard grammatical rules (subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, and appropriate prepositional usage) reveals that the segment specified in Option (B) contains the error or represents the correct grammatical form: prize.
Hence, the correct answer is Option (B).