In the following questions, a sentence/ part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence/part of the sentence at which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is No Improvement.
Drinking tea is an English habit.
The correct answer is option number - D.
Usage of `habit' is incorrect here.
The correct word will be `custom'.
Habit - it means the way an individual does things on a regular base.
Ex- Sleeping late is a bad habit.
Custom- The long established tradition of an entire society.
Ex- Dowry is an old custom which is still followed by many people in India.
Convention- Set of unwritten /explicit rules agreed upon within a group.
It will applied to people with common interests not a society.
Ex- Programmers use coding conventions to ensure easier readability of each others codeÂ
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