SSC CGL 2013 Tier 1 - 21 April

Instructions

In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is no error, your answer is (D) i.e., No error

Question 67

The scientists (A)/ could not hardly (B)/ complete all the experiments, (C)/ No error (D)

Solution

Part B is having error. 

Could not and hardly means the same thing. 

Here both the words are used together and it's called superfluous. 

To correct the sentence remove either 'could not' or 'hardly'. 


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