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Direction: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, then your answer is (4), i.e. No error.

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. My Aunt
    2. was first
    3. to get a degree.
    4. No error
Correct Option: B

the will be used before first because –
the (Def. Art.) is used before Ordinal numbers.
Look at the examples given below :
This is the first time I’ve ridden a horse.
Their team won the second prize for the Quiz Competition.
Hence, was the first is the right usage



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