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Directions: In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. 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, your answer is No error.

Q:

Although the police officer sympathised with poor (1)/ he refused to (2) /take an action against the rich man (3). /No error (4)

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Answer : 1. "1"
Explanation :

the will be used before poor because – the (Def. Art.) is used with Adjectives to refer to a thing or a group of people described by the Adj. Look at the examples given below :

The poor always suffer

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Def. Art. Adj. (refers to a group of people who are poor) He is collecting money for the blind.

                                                                                                                                                     ↓

                                                                                                                                                Def. Art.

blind refers to a group of people who are blind.

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