The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain a grammatical error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

Antique diamond necklace / was stolen / from the museum.

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SSC CGL 2021 Tier-I (Held On : 12 April 2022 Shift 2)

Answer 1

The erroneous part is 'Antique diamond necklace'.

Key Points

The given sentence is grammatically incorrect.
Here, 'An antique diamond necklace' should be used instead of 'Antique diamond necklace'.
If any word starts with these vowels or has any vowel sound then the article 'an' is used before them. In the given sentence 'honest' starts with a 'vowel sound'.
Some words start with 'vowel sound' but start with 'consonant letter'. We use 'an' article before these kinds of words.
The list of these kinds of words is as follows: Honest, hour, heir, honorable, honorary, M.C.A. MNC, RTI, IMT, X-Ray, M.P., L.L.B., etc.
In the given sentence 'Antique' starts with the vowel 'a'.
- Example: It is an example worth revising.
Thus, the correct answer is Option 3.

Correct Sentence: An antique diamond necklace was stolen from the museum.