The lives of the most marginalized have ceased to engage many of our filmmakers, to have migrated to more 'happening' urban issues.
Answer(s): C
Chandi's unhappy life ends on the rail tracks on which a local gang has placed huge tree trunks, to derail the train carry money from the government treasury.
Answer(s): D
This sentence has an error by using a verb form in the place of gerund to refer a continuous action. Option A uses a present verb (carry). Option B uses an infinitive form (to carry). Option C uses a verb form of present tense third person singular (carries). Option E uses a past tense verb (carried). Option D uses a gerund (carrying) that is appropriate to refer to a continuous action; hence option D is the correct answer.
Although India had committed himself to facing out the mining of asbestos, it has not kept it's word.
This sentence has an error in the place of pronoun. In the sentence a wrong possessive pronouns have been used, where it should be 'itself- its' as correctly used in the option D. other options are all wrong by using inappropriate combinations of pronouns such as option A 'himself- if, option B 'itself- it', option C 'it self- it' and option E "itself- it'. Option D is the correct answer.
Our name, which has become a legend among the students for the highest standards in teaching, and hence has been copied by a lot of people across nation, for no one can match our quality.
This sentence has an error by using an inappropriate conjunction (for) while two contrast ideas are spoken. When contrast statements take place the conjunction should help them to differentiate each other as in the option C the conjunction (but) does. So option C is the correct one whereas others use inappropriate conjunctions such as 'for/ and/ nor'. Option C is the correct answer.
The facts are well known. About half of all Indian children are undernourished, more than half suffer from anemia, a similar proportion escapes full immunization.
Answer(s): E
This sentence has an error in the use of parallelism. When there are many ideas or things take place in a sentence, the conjunction 'and' must take place before the last idea or the thing as it is shown in the option E (About half of all Indian children are undernourished, more than half suffer from anemia, and a similar), whereas; other options are wrong by placing the conjunctions inappropriate places. Option E is the correct answer.
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