Direction: In the following questions some 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 your answer. If there is No error, your answer is (4).
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- In the background they could hear John laughing and joking loudly.
- John was the life and soul of any party
- and he was cracking a joke every few minutes.
- No error
Correct Option: B
the will replace any because –
any generalises the situation but the (Def. Art.) indicates a particular Object.
Look at the examples given below :
The boy goes to the school in the next lane.
He can go to school after he has attained the age of 3 years.
In the 1st sentence, we are talking about a particular school whereas in, 2nd about a general school, hence, the is used before school.
In the 2nd sentence, we are talking, about any school, hence, the will not be used before school.
