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English · Q152

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Competitive Exams · English · question 152

Q152

Scientific advances over the last fifty yearshave ledto revolutionary changes in health, agriculture and communication, andgenerallyenhancingsocio-economic development and the quality of ourlives.Choose the option that indicates the error in the sentence.

A.
Have led
B.
And
C.
Enhancing
Answer
D.
Lives

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The sentence begins with the verb phrase “have led to”, which is followed by a series of noun phrases describing results.

For correct grammatical structure, all parts joined by “and” must maintain parallel construction.

The phrase “generally enhancing socio-economic development” breaks this parallelism because “enhancing” is a present participle, while the earlier elements are governed by “have led to”.

To maintain parallelism, it should be “and generally enhanced socio-economic development”.

Therefore, the grammatical error lies in the word “Enhancing”, making Option C the correct answer.