JIPMAT 2025
Grammar
Grammatical Error
Conceptual
In the following sentence, find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option:"The patient died / despite he had received / the best medical help / from the hospital staff."
In the following sentence, find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option:"The patient died / despite he had received / the best medical help / from the hospital staff."
✅ Correct Option: 2
The part of the sentence with an error is despite he had received (Option 2).The sentence contains a conjunction error. "Despite" is a preposition, not a conjunction, so it cannot be followed directly by a clause with a subject and verb.
The sentence structure issue: - "Despite" is a preposition that requires a noun phrase or gerund following it - Here it's incorrectly followed by a complete clause "he had received"
Three ways to correct this error: 1. Replace "despite" with the conjunction "although": "although he had received" 2. Keep "despite" but add "the fact that": "despite the fact that he had received" 3. Change to "despite having received"
The other parts of the sentence are grammatically correct: - "The patient died" - simple past tense - "the best medical help" - noun phrase - "from the hospital staff" - prepositional phrase
Therefore, the correct answer is Option 2.
The sentence structure issue: - "Despite" is a preposition that requires a noun phrase or gerund following it - Here it's incorrectly followed by a complete clause "he had received"
Three ways to correct this error: 1. Replace "despite" with the conjunction "although": "although he had received" 2. Keep "despite" but add "the fact that": "despite the fact that he had received" 3. Change to "despite having received"
The other parts of the sentence are grammatically correct: - "The patient died" - simple past tense - "the best medical help" - noun phrase - "from the hospital staff" - prepositional phrase
Therefore, the correct answer is Option 2.
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