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Pick the part of the sentence with grammatical mistakes/errors.

(A) The economist were of the opinion

(B) that the government should give longer times to farmers

(C) to pay the loan instead of waiving the entire farm loan

(D) as doing so is not good for credit culture

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1
PartStatementAnalysisCorrection
(A)"The economist were of the opinion"Subject-verb agreement error: singular subject "economist" with plural verb "were""The economist was" or "The economists were"
(B)"that the government should give longer times to farmers"Incorrect phrasing: "longer times" is grammatically incorrect"more time"
(C)"to pay the loan instead of waiving the entire farm loan"Grammatically correctNo correction needed
(D)"as doing so is not good for credit culture"Grammatically correctNo correction needed

Hence, the correct answer is Option 1.

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