JIPMAT 2025 (VA) - 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." | PYQs + Solutions

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."

The patient died

despite he had received

the best medical help

from the hospital staff.

✅ Correct Option: 2

The error is in part 2: "despite he had received"

This 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. There are three ways to correct this:

- Replace "despite" with the conjunction "although": "although he had received"

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- Keep "despite" but add "the fact that": "despite the fact that he had received"

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- Change to "despite having received"

JIPMAT 2025 (VA) PYQs

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."

Keyboard Shortcuts

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."